Often, some helpful prankster will combine two or more previous hoaxes into one and relaunch the newly minted variant on an unsuspecting Internet public.
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An ‘urgent’ message circulating via SMS and social media posts warns users not to accept a video called ‘The Dance of The Pope’ because it is a very dangerous virus that will format your mobile phone.
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Bogus WarningsHoaxes
Another Useless Facebook Warning Post — ‘Little Girl Disfigured Trojan Horse Virus’
by Brett M. Christensen June 7, 2017According to a rather breathless warning message that is currently circulating on Facebook, you should not open a Facebook post featuring a photo of a disfigured little girl because the photo is a “trojan horse virus”.
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Warning message claims that an email with the title “Mail Server Report” contains a virus that will display a message saying “It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful” before destroying everything on the infected computer.
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Email claims that a message with an attachment named “Merry Christmas” contains a destructive virus that will “burn” the hard drive on the infected computer thereby destroying the Zero Sector.
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Message circulating via WhatsApp and social media websites warns users not to read a news item showing “two police officers arresting Donald Trump on your computer screen” because it is a virus that will infect your computer.
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Message circulating via social media and SMS warns you not to open a video called the “Dance of the Hillary” because it is a dangerous virus that formats your mobile phone.
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Message circulating via social media and SMS warns people not to accept a video called ‘Sonia disowns Rahul’ because it is a very dangerous virus that will format your mobile phone.
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Message circulating on Facebook warns users not to open an attachment called “Invitation Fb” or “Invitation FACEBOOK” because it will launch an “Olympic torch” virus that destroys the hard drive of the infected computer.