WARNING: Don't Click 'Girl Killed Herself' Facebook Posts

Warnings about the latest Facebook hoax appear to be circulating more briskly than the actual spamware in question. This one revived an August scam about a girl killing herself over something her father posted on Facebook.

Warnings about the latest Facebook hoax appear to be circulating more briskly than the actual spamware in question. This one revived an August scam about a girl killing herself over something her father posted on Facebook.

The latest round of spamware appears in several variants on people’s newsfeed walls, all generally addressing the girl’s suicide and linking here. The page asks you to click “like” to see the story and actually tells you that it wants you to suggest it to your friends.

If you do those two things (doh!) and click through, the application asks you to verify you’re human.

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