98 Percent of People Can’t Watch This Video for More Than 15 Seconds – Facebook Scam
By on November 13th, 2011

A new scam is underway on  Facebook which claims to show a video and assumes that 98 percent of users won’t be able to watch it for more than 25 seconds. The scam is spreading across the social network giant – Facebook with the following title – “98 Percent of People Can’t Watch This Video for More Than 15 Seconds” and a message that reads – “CLICK LINK TO WATCH VIDEO & SEE HOW LONG YOU CAN LAST!!

98 Percent of People Can't Watch This Video for More Than 15 Seconds

A scam that we reported earlier in June had a similar title 99% People Can’t See This Video For More Than 25 Seconds Facebook Scam.

This is a  spam  message that is spreading on Facebook with a link that leads to a bogus page upon click it, where you will notice a fake video player. You are asked to share the message before you can watch the video, after which you will be shown the following video

98 Percent of People Can't Watch This Video for More Than 15 Seconds

Sometimes, after having shared the video, you will be redirected another spam website where you will be asked to complete a set of online surveys.

You can notice that the link has been shared more than 5,000 users, which itself indicates that the scam is  rapidly  spreading on Facebook.  It is recommended that you DO NOT click on such links or scam messages on Facebook. If you come across this scam message, please delete/remove the scam from your Facebook news feed immediately. Alternately, you can report the scam to  Facebook Security.

With over 800 million users on Facebook, the social networking giant has always been a main target for spreading scams. It is quite difficult to identify scams on Facebook. Here is a post on How to Identify and Avoid Facebook Scams.

As a precautionary measure, always check which applications you use and remove unwanted or suspicious ones. If you aren’t sure how to do it, you can always check our guide on  removing apps from Facebook. In addition to that, don’t forget to check out our article about  Avoiding Facebook Likejacking and Clickjacking scams.

Bookmark  Techie Buzz Facebook Scams. We always keep you updated with the  latest scams spreading on Facebook.

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  • JaySquared

    Thanks, I was wondering what that was. There is another one similar to it saying that they lost respect for soulja boy when they saw him beating up his girlfriend. It had the exact same comments and the 98 percent can’t watch this.

  • http://thechronicr.wordpress.com/ John Coolvart

    Thank you for this. I got a link to this in a message from a friend but since we haven’t chatted in a while and, well, I am not that dumb, I didn’t fall for the scams. Though I’m sure many others did. Good job on summing this up.

    Cheers.

  • John

    But look at that pimple, I have been looking all over the Internet for this video. I want to see it!! Darn that’s nasty!

  • http://www.igeekden.com Dennis Murphy

    There’s also another one getting around ‘I lost all respect for Miley Cyrus after watching this…’

  • http://www.google.com namchok

    thanks my friends has been trick and he’s got hack facebook account

  • http://www.google.com namchok

    and hacker send me this message and i didn’t open it so i didn’t got hacked :)

  • RikkG

    Thanks for posting this. This scam has been doing the rounds recently and the scam is being sent around via messages now.
    First time I received it I was like “This looks fishy *Doesn’t click*”
    The second time I received it with the exact same message (“Makes me sick lol”.) and I decided to look around the Internet and found this xD

  • dufrfvhyfdvycd

    it is just sick to think about it

  • justme–

    I clicked it by accident once, now it keeps spreading on my facebook,
    is there a way to delete it?
    -greatings, me

 
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