Within hours of the announcement of Jobs' death, scams popped up all over the web, including one on Facebook claiming to give away 1,000 iPads in memory of Steve Jobs.
When the deal is too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true say tech security experts.
According to Trend Micro, the scam which rides on the popularity of social networking, prompts Facebook users to share a page on their walls to gain eligibility for the iPad draw.
The user is then redirected to an advertisement site as the page is being shared, and even though the advertisement seems suspicious, users are still falling for the old trick.
Access to the scam website has been blocked but there's no way to stop the growing number of users sharing the bogus link.
With more users sharing the scam links, the increased views on the advertisement only adds to the earnings of the scammers.
Apart from exposing the scam, to only other way to fight the modern-day grave robbers, say the experts is to be wary of such posts on Facebook and if there's anything to share – let it be about warnings of the scam.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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