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Since March 2017, many Internet users have encountered a tragic story of a fiery car crash that claimed the lives of seven people, killing two women along with their five children as their husbands valiantly tried to rescue them: We can't say that an automobile accident of this nature has never occurred anywhere at any time (the text somewhat mimics an account of a June 2016 crash that killed six people in California), but in this particular case the same essentially fictional story has been spread online, with identical details, utilizing multiple domains and varying geographic locales. First of all, this article's headline is always presented as 2 moms, 5 kids killed in car crash in [name] County, where [name] is a varying roster of counties across the U.S., such as Schuyler County, Sangamon County, Suwannee County, Hernando County, Van Buren County, and Merced County. A simple Google search reveals some of the many areas in which the very same tragedy is reported to have taken place: All of these domains were registered by the same person in Tbilisi, Georgia, and have no obvious purpose outside the spreading of questionable (i.e., porn) advertisements and possibly related malware.
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