Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock, hasn’t died, but there’s been several death hoaxes going around saying he died in a fall in New Zealand or on the set of “Fast & Furious 7.”
Neither are true and they’re just Facebook scams designed to get traffic to a web page that can contain malware, surveys, or rogue apps that then spread the scam further.
To show Johnson isn’t dead, he tweeted a photo of himself in Dubai on Sunday.
In Dubai and on my way to my home away from home.. Australia’s Gold Coast. #BodiesKissedByTheSun #WheelsUp pic.twitter.com/escUrHbusM
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) April 13, 2014
Security website Online Threat Alerts says that the hoaxes are used to get traffic to pages, which are then sold to other scammers.
“Scammers created this hoax to make a particular Facebook page popular, which they will sell to other scammers or online marketers with all the public information of the persons who have shared, ‘liked’ or commented on the hoax,” the website reads.
“And, once you share, ‘like’ or comment on the page, you will only help them achieve their goal. So, if you have already shared, ‘liked’ or commented on the hoax, please remove the shared post, comment or unlike it, because this will help stop this hoax from spreading to other social networking users,” it continues.
Facebook says that users shouldn’t click on “suspicious links.”
