A video claiming to reveal the discovery of missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 has been revealed as a viral marketing scam. Entitled
‘Newest Video: Malaysian Air Flight MH370 Found By Sailor Moments Ago’, the
link is circulating on Facebook,
along with the subhead “Mystery is solved – sailor rewarded $5 million on
spot.”
It features a photo of a
partially submerged aircraft and invites viewers to click a link, whereupon
they are taken to a fake Facebook page instructing you to share it with your
Facebook friends before you can watch it.
Scam watchdog Hoax Slayer has
branded the message a viral marketing scam
You can’t – what follows is a
seemingly never-ending stream of irritating marketing surveys.
What's more, the image used is
actually a shot of US Airways Flight 1549, which crashed into New
York ’s Hudson River in January
2009.
Hoax
Slayer writes: “Alas, no matter how many
surveys you complete, you will never get to see the promised video, which never
existed to begin with."
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