In September of 2008, a spam email with an attached file claiming to be a sex tape of United States president Barack Obama began circulating that contained several Windows viruses from Eastern Europe. Scams and malware programs have a long history of using fake celebrity sex tapes as bait. Also on December 14th, the scam was reported by the tech news blogs Naked Security and All Facebook, who posted screenshots of the spam messages (shown below). The link would take users to a phishing site designed to to collect their Facebook account information, that would in turn post more spam messages to the targeted users' Facebook friends. On December 14th, 2010, the tech news site Tech News Daily published an article titled "Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Phishing Scam Hits Facebook," which reported that a phishing scam was using promises of a sex tape featuring Miley Cyrus to trick users into clicking a link in their inbox.
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