Osama bin Laden leaked video scam rises again on Facebook

A new version of the various Facebook scams we have seen since the death of Osama bin Laden has emerged.

Naked Security reader Sampath sent us a tip-off about the latest variation he had seen of a viral scam that poses as a video of the killing of Osama bin Laden:

OSAMA KILLING REAL VIDEO LEAKED
OMG! real video of Osama Bin Laden being killed. Video leaked by wikileaks. Watch it before it get deleted.

A link in the message may, at first glance, appear to point to the YouTube website but in fact points to a similar-looking Indian domain name ending in “.in”.

If you make the mistake of clicking on the link you are taken to a third-party webpage, which poses as a security…

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