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If one of your Facebook friends sent you a "shocking" YouTube video about yourself, would you watch it? Sounds fishy, you say? Facebook has plenty of scams, after all.
Well, what if the video on the YouTube page had your name in the title, and other friends of yours had already seen the "shocking performance" and posted comments laughing at you? Comments like "The new TV star!" and "One word for it — TERRIBLE!"
You'd probably try to watch that.
If so, then you'd have fallen for one of the most ingenious scams to appear in months. And it might be just the beginning of a saga that could end with cybercriminals completely taking over — "owning," in hacker jargon — your computer....
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