Full article here: http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...ies/2011/05/04/email-osama-virus.html?sid=101
Everyone be cautious! This seems like a pretty serious virus. It's amazing what people will do these days just to mess with you.
Article Scammers promising bin Laden death photos flood Facebook, emails
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Full article here: http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...ies/2011/05/04/email-osama-virus.html?sid=101
Everyone be cautious! This seems like a pretty serious virus. It's amazing what people will do these days just to mess with you.
sisterofmercy
Ray of Sunshine..
To be honest though that's what you (general you) get for being so voyeuristic. Fine if people are sceptical about it, but you'd look a bit further than Facebook/e-mail to validate it surely?
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Cast No Shadow
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I've seen loads of these on people's facebook, I think it's quite obvious they're viruses, facebook is full of them!
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white avenger
white avenger
Personally, I have no interest whatsoever in seeing Osama in any form, much less a corps that was, reportedly, shot at pointblank range twice in the face and head. That kind of wound is about as messy and nauseating as you could imagine. Plus, I wouldn't know the man from Adam's off ox if I saw a clear picture of him. It could be any dead man with a beard and similar facial features, and I wouldn't know the difference, and neither would 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the people looking at it.
I can understand the sense of justice finally being done that so many people are feeling now, even though that still small voice in the back of my mind keeps saying, "You might cup the scorpion's head off, but its stinger is still intact and still capable of inflicting a whole lot of pain before it quits moving." Have no doubt, someone will take Osama's place, and the chances are quite good that he will be even more ruthless, more fanatical, more just plain evil, and more bent on revenge for what we've done. I hate to rain on anybody's parade or spoil their celebration party, but this issue is almost certainly far from over.
I can understand the sense of justice finally being done that so many people are feeling now, even though that still small voice in the back of my mind keeps saying, "You might cup the scorpion's head off, but its stinger is still intact and still capable of inflicting a whole lot of pain before it quits moving." Have no doubt, someone will take Osama's place, and the chances are quite good that he will be even more ruthless, more fanatical, more just plain evil, and more bent on revenge for what we've done. I hate to rain on anybody's parade or spoil their celebration party, but this issue is almost certainly far from over.
BuffyElevated
Scooby
Cast No Shadow
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Don't you think so? I'm sure they will be released eventually, and if not released, then leaked out.
maybe one day in the far future but i dont think they will be released. not any time soon. the issue is still to fresh and delicate to leak the picture and then risk an even bigger retaliation from osama's followers
Joan the Vampire Slayer
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Yeah, like 6 were posted on my Facebook wall. Not the thing I really wanted to see at 7am yesterday morning, honestly.
Cast No Shadow
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Yeah I know what you mean. It's swings and roundabouts though, people (on the UK news anyway) are kicking off, making up conspiracy theories that he's not really dead, etc, and lots of political correspondants are saying things like, "When the photos are released it'll put an end to it". Which is a load of rubbish, because if he was shot in the head, it's not as though anyone will be able to recognise him anyway.
No matter what people do, it seems like there'll always be some sort of retaliation/people kicking off, whether it's with Obama, thinking that it's all a big lie (not meaning to be bad to my fellow Brits, but it sounds like a case of sour grapes that we didn't get there first, to me) or by Muslim extremists, who will see it as some sort of attack.
white avenger
white avenger
Here's another thought. If pictures ARE published, how do you know that they're authentic, and not either a picture of someone else, or an actual picture of Osama taken earlier and then retouched? I've seen pictures of Elvis and John Kennedy, supposedly taken years, even decades, after their deaths, and they look completely authentic. Get out an old tape or disc and watch "Forrest Gump" sometime. Nowadays, just about anyone with a PC, the right software, and a little motivation can turn out a picture of literally anyone doing anything. The day is long gone when the term "photographic proof" meant anything.