Anybody who clicks these links is redirected to a fake video website containing lots of adverts generating ad income for the person behind the scam. However the scam doesnt stop here, after a series of Authentication requests it asks the victim to fill in the survey which the website says, is part of a security check.At the end of the survey the victim is usually asked to enter his mobile phone number to continue to the video, which in fact causes the victim to sign up for premium mobile service without his knowledge.At the end of the survey Victim ends up signing for a premium mobile service and/or installing a fake video player update which is a trojan with a payload of Malware or advert addon for browsers. since the victim allows all the Authentication requests including allowing the app to publicly post from his Account, the link then gets automatically is reshared from his account giving the scammers opportunity to milk another victim.The scammers who have done the homework for this have made the page look so genuine that it seems trustworthy at first look. The scammers have used CNN liberally to prove their point.Cyber criminals and Spammers have for ages, always been on look out for hot/popular news to start their spamming campaign. But this one take the cake. Using an rather unfortunate and a tragic incident which is yet to be resolved is rather sadistic but unfortunately people are being tricked to believe its real, ending up into the promotion and re-sharing of the spam, In some cases the spammers use victims account to message the link to his friend circle and share it in Groups which he is a member.
