You don’t want to go looking for Corey Haim videos

Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the boatload.There are a number of spam runs currently circulating on video sharing sites such as Youtube, ready to catch out the curious and the unwary. Shall we take a look?“Suicide or killed! Watch Corey Haim first found dead”Classy. Visiting mycelebzone(dot)com will pop open a Hotbar prompt, which you need to install to “see the content”:Instead of ghoulish pictures of a deceased celebrity, the end-user will find himself looking at a ghoulish spamblog linking to fake links of ripped movies.Oh, they’ll have Hotbar, ShopperReports and BarDiscover onboard too. What a value add!Elsewhere, sites claiming to have horrible images such as Celebrity-autopsies(dot)com will drop you onto surveys and quizzes to be filled in, courtesy of a dancing Michael Jackson:To see the content, all you have to do is sign up to a ringtone service that charges the low price of £9.00 / $15.00 per week – I know a bargain when I see one, and this probably isn’t it.There are various other links floating around on video (continue reading...)