False reports claiming that Kanye West was involved in a James Dean style two-car crash in Los Angeles was nothing more than an elaborate scheme to flood the internet with malicious misinformation. Facebook and Twitter were inundated with the false reports.
Kanye’s model girlfriend Amber Rose ‘tweeted’ the good news to the singers fans that he was indeed alive and well.
According to The Register, the death prank was used to sling scareware, and redirect those searching for information to malware-infested sites. It is yet another example of hackers gaming search engine rankings for events in the news to lure the unsuspecting into their malware scams.
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