{"id":72423,"date":"2011-10-10T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72423"},"modified":"2011-10-10T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:16:56","slug":"steve-jobs-death-facebook-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/steve-jobs-death-facebook-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs&#8217; death &#8211; Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook scammers are once again exploiting a celebrity\u2019s death. Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs&#8217; death news is the target just like many before him. Only a few hours after his death a Facebook page titled &#8220;R.I.P. Steve Jobs&#8221; is said to have gone up, with text claiming that 50 free iPads are being given out &#8220;in memory of Steve Jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/FB-RIP-Steve-JobsCustom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People who clicked through were led to sites asking them to fill out online surveys or to sign up for free offers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/FB-RIP-Steve-serveyCustom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is likely just the beginning of such scams that will try to make money from Jobs&#8217; death. Please stay away from them and try to limit your link-clicking to reputable and genuine websites that do not claim to give you something for free.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers goal is to drive more traffic towards certain websites. This is how the scammer earns commission for every survey completed, every product purchased and\/or every account compromised. They also use such tricks to spread malware and to obtain personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook scammers are once again exploiting a celebrity\u2019s death. Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs&#8217; death news is the target just like many before him. Only a few hours after his death a Facebook page titled &#8220;R.I.P. Steve Jobs&#8221; is said to have gone up, with text claiming that 50 free iPads are being given out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[42,43,44,29,97],"class_list":["post-72423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-malware","tag-facebook-scam","tag-facebook-malware","tag-online-survey","tag-social-engineering","tag-steve-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}