Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook
Summary: Scammers are creating Facebook groups that claim to livestream funeral services, then funnel mourners to newly registered websites such as livestreamnow[.]xyz that demand credit card information before continuing. KrebsOnSecurity traced that domain to a Bangladeshi registrant called apkdownloadweb, and found the same IP address at Hetzner in Germany hosts nearly 6,000 other domains, including pages listing links to Facebook groups for funerals, graduations, concerts, weddings and a Massachusetts police department's town event.
What's compelling: The scheme works because it arrives at the moment people are least likely to check a link, and the infrastructure behind it is one IP address serving thousands of look-alike domains, so blocking a single site accomplishes little.
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