Facebook scam says Lady Gaga's dead!

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August 7, 2011 / IANS, London / DC.

A scam doing rounds on social networking website Facebook claims that singer Lady Gaga been found dead in a hotel room.

A scam doing the rounds on social networking website Facebook claims that singer Lady Gaga has been found dead in a hotel room.

To warn people about the scam, computer security firm Sophos has released a statement, reports msnbc.msn.com.

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CYBER CRIMES: US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in!

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bbc.co.uk / 5 August 2011 / Last updated at 23:02 GMT.

A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.

Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.

Prosecutors allege he developed a program that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to submit their account details.

Mr Wallace denies the charges, which carry prison sentences of up to 10 years.

He has been released on $100,000 (£61,000) bail.

Prosecutors say Mr Wallace's program posted messages on Facebook users walls - purportedly from friends - urging users to visit a website where their account details were then harvested.

They were then redirected to an affiliate website that earned Wallace "substantial revenue", the charges say.

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CYBER CRIMES: Madhya Pradesh website spammed with adult content!

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MAHIM PRATAP SINGH / The Hindu / BHOPAL, July 22, 2011.

MAPCOST is offering a lot more than just information on its website!

From Russian adult chat networks and herbal “enlargement” pills to bulk car insurance and online casinos — the Shivraj Singh Chauhan-headed Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MAPCOST) is offering a lot more than just information on its website!

Not intentionally, of course. Like several other seldom-updated government websites, the MAPCOST website (http://mapcost.org/index.htm) is the latest victim of advertisement spamming.

But a casual visitor browsing the “Facilities” page (http://mapcost.org/Biotech/Bio_Facility.htm,http://mapcost.org/index.htm) may get the wrong idea on reading “London escorts outstanding a man” listed under the support services tab; or on finding discounts on genital enlargement pills in the “Other Activities” (http://mapcost.org/Biotech/Bio_Other .htm) section.

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