DeTect: Fake posts on FB piggyback on celebrity gossip

CHENNAI: A recent Facebook post purportedly contained a link to interviews with several renowned personalities, including journalists, celebrities and industrialists like Ratan Tata.

The preview link image featured a click-bait headline quoted by a major British news channel as well. One of them has an industrialist saying he was ‘ashamed of what he had done.’

When clicked, the link redirects to a crypto scam portal and there is no interview of any kind. The post has employed the images of several celebrities to generate fake engagement.