Sickos use Jay Slater case to push grownup content material on-line with ‘hate’ message
Sick scammers are using the search for missing Jay Slater to flood social media with adult material in a bid to hack unsuspecting victims.
The search for the 19-year-old from Lancashire who was reported missing more than a week ago (June 17) continues, and started when he called his friend Lucy, telling her he was lost in a rural area of the island with only 1% battery left on his phone.
His last known location was half a mile north of Masca village. Despite ongoing efforts by emergency workers, including the Civil Guard, mountain rescue team and fire crews, the challenging terrain of the Rural de Teno park is proving difficult to search.
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And as worried people search for news about the boy on social media, many turning to Twitter/X are now being met with a horrific amount of pornographic spam links.
Posted in the form of what looks like a video, should anyone not familiar with internet spam try to press play they will be taken to a spam website, which has the potential to load your tech with malicious software.
And to make it worse, the message posted with the fake link reads: “Jay Slater latest. He’s still missing in Tenerife. He is a violent criminal who helped split a young man’s head open with a machete.
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“He showed no remorse. Boo hoo, what a shame, never mind. Karma sure is a b*tch.”
Hundreds of posts have gone live in the last few hours, all of which are from accounts created in the last month or so – all of which link to the same Video Full HD 1120 Blogspot website.
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The Daily Star found several accounts posting at least 100 messages with the same text and link shortly after midday today – with one of those responsible for the vast majority of it.
It doesn’t appear as if anyone has clicked on them yet, as there are no replies to any of them complaining or comment on them so far.
The Daily Star has contacted Twitter/X for a comment.
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