Murder video scam circulating on Facebook. Facebook scammers are luring users into signing up for premium rate services with promises of a video showing a guy killing his roommate after playing Black Ops. The new spam messages, which, according to security researchers from GFI Software are rapidly spreading on the social networking site, read: "TODAY ONE GUY KILLED HER ROOM MATE WHILE PLAYING A BLACK OPS GAME IN NETWORK. LIVE DEATH VIDEO CAUGHT ON CAMERA" Black Ops refers to "Call of Duty: Black Ops," the seventh installment in the Call of Duty game series, which was just released. This, of course, is just a lure and there is no video of any killing. Clicking on the picture as instructed prompts a permissions request dialog from a rogue Facebook app called "Shock news." The application wants access to post on people's walls. Allowing it to do this will cause users to unknowingly send spam from their accounts. The app prompt is followed by a so called "human authentication" test, which requires people to take an IQ quiz that tries to sign them up for a $9.99 per month SMS service.
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