Social Media, a powerful tool these days which can even make some fake message look real because you have received the same message from number of your friends and when it is advised in the message that do share it with your friend to safeguard their device then how come you can stop yourself from sharing it with your friend, without even knowing the reality of message.
“Please inform all contacts from your list not to open a video called “Dance of the Hillary”. It is a virus that formats your mobile. Beware it is very dangerous. They announced it today on BBC radio. Fwd this msg to as many as you can!”
Hope, till now you may have encountered this message and too have shared it, but is this a reality or just a hoax. Above message describe a virus which can destroy your content if you open a video name “ Dance of the Hillary” but in actual, there is no as such virus and too make news look real, message creator have attached the name of BBC, in actual, there is not any such announcement from BBC side.
Actually, above message is a revamped version of
“Please inform all contacts from your list not to open a video called “Dance of the Pope”. It is a virus that formats your mobile. Beware it is very dangerous. They announced it today on the radio. Fwd this msg to as many as you can! It was announced on a radio in USA.”
This message was again proved to be untrue. So, sharing such wrong information will not be of any kind of help to someone, and if you received such message from your friend then do inform him that it is a hoax.
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