World funniest condom commercial? Facebook hit by viral likejacking attack

Messages are beginning to spread across Facebook, tricking users into clicking on links which claim to point to the world’s funniest condom commercial.

The messages are spreading through a clickjacking scam (sometimes known as likejacking) which means that users do not realise that they are invisibly pressing that they “Like” the video when they try to play it.

A typical message looks something like the following (the actual link can change):

The World Funniest Condom Commercial – LOL
[LINK] haha its really so funny ~ Dont Miss it !

The scam appears to be being perpetrated by the same gang who have been successfully spreading a “Baby born amazing effect” scam over the last several days.

Clicking on the links, which so far appear to all be hosted on blogspot.com, takes users to a…

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