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Examples: [Collected via e-mail, March 2011] Facebook is full of reports and viedos saying they found CharlieSheen dead this moring of apparent heart attack any truth to this?There is a new Facebook wall post scam advertised as RIP Charlie Sheenfound Dead at his House. This scam involves a wall post link withinFacebook. If you click on the wall post link, you will open a FacebookVideo page that is designed to look like a YouTube channel. If youclick anywhere on the screen, your Facebook account will beclick-jacked and you will be spreading the spam message via yourFacebook news feed. Clicking to play the video will open a securitycheck screen asking you to please complete a 30 second survey to verifythat you are human. The screen will also have the following wordingCustomize Your Facebook With a Theme. Clicking on this page in any waywill post the same message you clicked on to your Facebook wall anddownload/install malware on your system. Origins: This item about the death by heart attack of actor Charlie Sheen, the Two and a Half Men star who has recently been in the news due to his public feud with the show's producers, is yet another Internet-spread celebrity death hoax. Like earlier reports of Sheen's purported demise, it's nothing more than a bit of Internet-based pranking. If if were true, it would be the lead story in every American news outlet, not merely a bit of Facebook chatter. The account may have been inspired by a National Enquirer article (as summarized in the Daily Mail) alleging that Sheen had suffered four near-fatal overdoses in the last six months and that friends and staff members at his Beverly Hills mansion have had to take swift action to prevent the the 45-year-old star from going into cardiac arrest by administering a Nitroglycerin pill, a tablet that contains a chemical compound commonly used to prevent a heart attack. Facebook-based versions of the Charlie Sheen death hoax have been linked to clickjacking scams and the distribution of malware.
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