If Lady Gaga offers a limited edition iPad to her' Little Monsters', who wouldn't like to own one? A scam on the singer's Facebook page fooled many fans into clicking the link to win an iPad. The contest rules and registration were presented as a link to a Blogspot page, according to Graham Cluley from the security firm Sophos, who spotted the scam.The presence of the fake iPad offer didn't go unnoticed, and was taken down within an hour.
如果Lady Gaga要送她的“小怪獸們”一臺(tái)限量版iPad,誰不想要?(【注】Lady Gaga稱其歌迷為“Little Monsters”)一個(gè)出現(xiàn)在Gaga姐Facebook主頁上的騙局,成功愚弄了很多粉絲點(diǎn)擊贏一臺(tái)iPad的鏈接。Sophos公司的Graham Cluley發(fā)現(xiàn)了這一騙局,據(jù)他說,這個(gè)假比賽的規(guī)則和注冊(cè)都鏈接到了另一個(gè)博客頁面上。發(fā)放iPad假消息的人并未逍遙法外,一小時(shí)內(nèi)即被捕獲。

"Lady Gaga's new iPad comes out in 3 days! So for the next 72 hours we will be hosting a massive giveaway to all the Mother Monster fans. Sign up and receive your special Lady Gaga edition iPad in time for the Holidays! For contest rules and registration visit the link below," a Sophos blog post quoted the scammers as saying.
“新的Lady Gaga版iPad要在3天內(nèi)問世啦!所以接下來的72個(gè)小時(shí),我們將發(fā)放大量贈(zèng)品給所有的粉絲們。只要報(bào)名,你就能在圣誕節(jié)準(zhǔn)時(shí)收到特別的Lady Gaga版iPad!更多比賽規(guī)則和注冊(cè)詳情,請(qǐng)點(diǎn)擊下面的鏈接查看?!盨ophos公司在一篇博文中引用了騙子的話。

But innocent fans were in for a shock as the scam link directed them to a site asking for their personal information.According to , "Lady Gaga's Twitter account had been hijacked to promote the same fake iPad scam. Lady Gaga herself later tweeted, 'Phew. The hacker is over! And just in time, I'm on my way to Japan! So excited to spend Xmastime with my TokyoMonsters!'"
但是天真的粉絲們免不了要遭遇打擊,因?yàn)檫@個(gè)假鏈接只是要把他們引入一個(gè)網(wǎng)站,然后套取他們的個(gè)人信息。根據(jù)msnbc網(wǎng)的描述,“Lady Gaga的Twitter賬號(hào)也已被盜,并發(fā)布了同樣的iPad騙局。后來Gaga自己也唏噓了一陣:‘我去,這黑客玩得太大了吧!而且那時(shí)我恰好在去日本的路上!我還那么興奮地期待,跟我在東京的小怪獸們一起歡度圣誕呢!’”