ALERT: Watch Out For Scam Alternative To Sleeping Pill

This spam scam won't make you fall alseep with the promised video, but just might bore you to sleep with a typical hidden survey.

Insomniacs might feel tempted to click on today’s Facebook spam scam promising that 92 percent of people who watch a video will fall asleep.

Of course, no such footage exists. Clicking through a series of windows leads to the usual affiliate survey scam.

This particular spammer may have gotten inspired by statistics showing that some people use Facebook at or near bedtime.

Who else but someone who can’t fall asleep would bother clicking on this scam? The scheme could use better wording to that effect, because the current version appearing in news feeds makes little sense.

In order for the posters of these claims to be anything other than spamware, they’d all have to be among the eight percent who’d allegedly seen the video without falling asleep.

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