Fake Obama Security Alert Continues To Spread On Facebook

Earlier this week we covered a false security threat which had misspelled the KoobFace virus as “knobface”. Now it appears that threat rumor has continued spreading to hundreds of thousands of users and continue to this minute. Despite the article, and the rise of a couple of new threats since this rumor emerged, word of mouth has driven this rumor through a large portion of Facebook users. While there is a virus called KoobFace, no messages appear to be circulating from “SmartGirl15” with the subject “Barack Obama Clinton Scandal” as many people believe.

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