Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The Facebook video scam: "GOVERMENT WARNING: You will Never Use This Bath Soap After Watching This Video," will take Facebook users to a fake Facebook website, in an attempt to trick them into sharing it or completing surveys, by promising to show them a video of an unusual and abnormal creatures growing on someone's body. But, this is a scam and there is no video. Note that the word "Goverment" is spelt incorrectly.incorrect spelling is the first clue that a post or email is a fake or scam.
This video scam is the same as the following:
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Government is not spelled goverment.incorrect spelling makes you untrustworthy.
The spelling is not by us; it was taken directly or quoted from the title of the scam.I am glad you caught that because incorrect spelling is one of the clues people can use to determine if some email or post is a scam or not.
What's the picture of that they show for the fake video?
A Photo-shopped Lotus Seed pod. Click here for more information.