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Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook
- Scammers are spamming Facebook with groups that claim to offer live streaming of funeral services for recently deceased individuals.
- The scammers include images of the deceased as profile pictures, and attract users to newly created, fake live streaming websites that request credit card payments.
- Some sites also ask for donations in the name of the deceased, leading to an unknown number of victims.
- The scam has also expanded to include live streaming for any advertised event or social occasion on Facebook.
- Many of these scam funeral groups have subscribers who followed the link in anticipation of the funeral service being streamed online.
- The groups are typically linked to newly-registered video streaming websites that ask users for credit card information and other personal details.
- One popular streaming site linked to funeral service scams is livestreamnow[.]xyz, which is hosted by a Bangladeshi web hosting provider.
- Other fake streaming sites include onlinestreaming[.]xyz, and live24sports[.]xyz.
- The registrant of livestreamnow[.]xyz is a small IT company in Bangladesh called Apkdownloadweb.
- The admin of Apkdownloadweb is a Bangladeshi individual named Mohammod Abdullah Khondokar, according to stolen login credentials.
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