Friday, June 24, 2011

Photographer commits suicide 3 days after shooting THIS video? (Facebook Scam Alert)


If you are observant, you will find that there is a spelling mistake made on the word "Commited" title. It is likely that this mistake was made intentionally. It should be correctly spelled as "Committed" instead of the one mentioned.
Many of the Facebook user must have seen this on your Facebook Newsfeed. The title is "Photographer commited suicide 3 days after Shooting THIS video". It also says in a smaller print that says "WARNING: For mature audiences only". Being curious, most people will clicked the link thinking that it is some interesting video that this photographer must have taken. To make this even harder to resist from clicking this link, is the notion that the photographer who shoot this video committed suicide by the creator of this post.
In short, this is one of those Facebook scam made by the creator to exploit the curiosity of Facebook users to drive traffic to short SMS surveys for monetary gains. The users who followed through the link to a video would then also incidentally clicked on sharing button and post this on his or her Facebook wall. This post will then be further circulated to more "victims".
These short SMS survey requires the user to key in their mobile number. After keying in, a survey SMS will be sent to the user and if the user continued with the survey, he or she will be billed by the third party company through their respective mobile providers.
The above video will appear once the link on the post has been clicked.
On this seemingly realistic streaming video panel, there is a button right in the middle that says "Jaa". I have made a check on this word and found it to be a Finnish word for "Share". Once clicked, this post will be shared with your friends on your Wall.
User can choose to close the "Jaa" or share window, a pop-up window will appear asking you to do a survey in order to proceed on.
So this survey would check for your location based on Facebook profile and linked its relevant advertisement survey to you. This would requires you to key in your mobile number and you will get ripped if you follow through with the instructions.
Beware of scams like this. Facebook is the top social networking application in the world and many such "Traffic-Jackers" are trying to exploit users curiosity to make a windfall.

Monday, June 13, 2011

[Result] Live Score Between Singapore Select and Kuwait U23

I have put a stake with local Pools on this match, betting on Singapore Select to win this match up. This is really an exciting match between the two sides.

However, when I get back from work, I could not seem to find any live score of this match. I understand some of the matches are not being featured on the ever popular soccer score site, Livescore.

So I went to search around and managed to find the live score of this match as well as other matches not featured on the website, Livescore.

If you wished to know the result for unpopular or localized matches, visit Asianbookie Livescore for the live result.

As of now, the match is nearing the end of regular time with 1 - 1. Let see if Singapore Select is able to get a winner out of this.

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Just a little update at 9.24 pm, Tampines Rover is leading 2 - 1 against Geylang United and the match is ending soon.

Singapore Select as of 9.24 pm remains as 1 - 1.

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As at 9.28 pm, Kuwait U23 won the match with an additional away goal 2 - 1 against Singapore Select.