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.
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