Takada, who lives in Osaka and runs a small nursery in her home, was Takeuchi's only remaining relative. They spoke on the phone right before he was diagnosed, but he did not tell her he was sick alone at home. Takada said he was a gentle man and much loved. Japan's local public health bureaus, responsible for arranging for the care of COVID patients, struggled to find hospitals that would admit them.
In some cases, ambulances were shunted from one hospital to the next. A few makeshift facilities provided treatment and supplemental oxygen, but calls to set up big field hospitals went unheeded.
In New York, for instance, hospitals were quickly converted, adding thousands of extra beds and ICUs for virus patients. A Navy medical ship and other facilities were turned into makeshift hospitals. At the outbreak's peak in April , there were more than 1, new hospitalizations a day citywide. In early September, more than , people were sick with the virus at home, according to Health Ministry records. No one knows exactly how many died at home, though the National Police Agency, which tracks deaths, said people have died at home since March , with of them in August alone.
Japan's health care system is dominated by small, private hospitals and clinics, and few inpatient facilities are equipped to handle infectious diseases. Many beds are occupied by psychiatric patients and by the chronically ill and elderly, and there are relatively few doctors, intensive care specialists and nurses. In some places, local authorities arranged for such hospitals to accept patients who were no longer infectious and rehabilitating from serious illness after they were treated at larger hospitals.
In case you see some unauthorized likes on posts, links, or pages that you didn't authorize, scan your computer with a powerful anti-malware software to remove Faceliker for good. The scam seeks to promote the post offering you to identify strangers who are following you. Fortunately, this hoax does not have negative effects as in other cases when you are tempted to visit infected websites and install corrupted apps. Note that Facebook does not grant such privilege of revealing your followers.
Money scam was first spotted in August , when unknown cybercriminals tried to defraud the personal information from naive users, such as credit card numbers, money, or even identity, by using the name of famous and reputable people. One of the persons involved was a well-known financial advisor and the founder of the MoneySavingExpert.
According to a video published on Twitter, [10] people should be careful with such hoaxes that give fake recommendations or use the picture of Lewis illegally. Fraudsters also use his picture for boiler cover incentives, heating incentives, and PPI companies that Lewis has nothing in common with. However, if you find a advert using his name and offering to invest or purchase some products, do not get tricked and report such an advert to Facebook.
The purpose of this scam is to trick users that they can win two free tickets to fly with airlines on their 35th anniversary. However, the company is only 33 years old.
The Ryanair scam has been first noticed in ; [11] however, it continues spreading further. Ryanair scam offers users free tickers, although once licked is clicked, users are asked to enter their Facebook login details into a spoofed site. The post includes a picture of a boarding pass with the Ryanair logo.
However, vigilant people noticed a ridiculous seat arrangement or an unusual usage of QF code. On the scam website, users have to enter a bunch of personal information that becomes accessible to cybercriminals. Some reports also claim that some of these fake sites are infected and spread malware. Therefore, users are advised to stay away from such posts on Facebook.
The official Ryanair Facebook account is verified. If you are a Facebook user, you probably noticed Ray Ban spam on your timeline at least one time. Criminals are using hacked accounts to promote illegal and fake Ray-Ban online shops offering the famous eyewear brand products for a fraction of their original price. Ray-Bans on sale? This social engineering trick can attract everyone who desires to obtain these fashionable eyeglasses for less.
Sadly, attempts to buy them for a ridiculously small price lead to unexpected consequences. The victims of the Facebook Ray Ban virus usually have password-stealing malware installed on their computers. These phishing websites will never provide any glasses to potential buyers because their only purpose is to rob the victims and steal their credit card details.
If you bought something from those fake websites, you should contact your bank ASAP and cancel the transaction. You should also change all of your bank passwords and take other steps to protect your privacy. The culprit might be an obfuscated keylogger set to steal all of the passwords and login details. At the same time, they should change their password and disconnect all devices that are logged into their account. Victims should also untag themselves from such posts.
If your account was hacked by Ray-Ban virus, you should go to Facebook Hacked page and report a compromised account. Facebook Disneyland scam offers an opportunity to win free passes for the Disneyland theme park. Unfortunately, Disney is not giving away any free tickets to their theme park. People who accessed the provided link and then entered their personal information such as email addresses, cell phone numbers got scammed and put themselves at the risk of identity theft.
Being spread by using various posts, the scam redirected its victims to a page asking them to answer survey questions about different products or services. Additionally, the victims were tricked into agreeing to receive calls and text messages from salespeople. Besides, the victims were asked to provide their email address, full name, and similar data. We should also add that there is yet another version of the scam stating that Disneyland celebrates years of service and offers free tickets to families.
However, Disney was not sponsoring any of this. The scam offering 5 free tickets was taken for real because of the artwork similar to Disneylands' trademark used in it. When users clicked on the picture, users were presented with the following message:.
You have been selected to take part in our short survey to get 2 free Disneyland tickets. By using this strategy, scammers. In this case, users are offered free Disneyland tickets. However, it is just a hoax and crooks seek users' personal information. In the middle of summer'17, a new Facebook hoax emerged. This time, a fake message circulates the social network, urging users not to accept a friend request from someone named Jayden K.
On top of that, the message suggests forwarding the news to all of the user's friends to help spread the knowledge about the non-existing person.
This apparently accelerates the spread of this hoax. The truth is, there is no Jayden K. Smith, and there's no reason to worry about him. As always, remember that you should never accept friend requests from strangers because your social media account and your friends' lists can provide scammers a lot of valuable information about you.
After getting infected with this adware, you will be bothered by regular pops up stating that you have won an iPhone. Needless to say, that you will not receive any prize at all. In fact, you might be asked to provide such confidential details as credit card number, verification codes, email, and shipping addresses. Such data serves as valuable material for cybercriminals to improve their hacking techniques.
In the best-case scenario, your computer screen and email Inbox will be crammed with personal spam messages. Otherwise, you might be infected with a more serious threat. This adware spreads the same way as other samples of the same category. Illegal file-sharing domains might also deliver this virtual annoyance. If you notice these notifications, ignore them, scan your PC with an anti-spyware program and reset the settings. It is a serious malware which is spread via this social network and used for turning the computer into a bitcoin mining machine.
Once it tricks its victims into downloading a malicious. Please, don't let this malicious software stay on your computer because you can never know what malicious activities it can be used for. A new Facebook scam campaign has just been launched, this time focusing on the French-speaking users. Users are being threatened that their computers have been infected with Zeus trojan, and the only way to protect their banking information and other sensitive details from leaking to the hands of hackers is to call Microsoft support technicians by the given number.
It is yet unknown what follows after calling this number, but we can only presume that this Facebook scam works like any other Tech Support scam, and the scammer is trying to convince the callers to purchase questionable software or get remote access to their computers. French Facebook users are targeted by a fake Blue Screen of Death message which they get after being redirected from a bogus Facebook post.
Facebook Stalker is a dangerous FB application that is actively spread on this social network. It belongs to scammers, and it is used for stealing sensitive user information, not for helping people find out who is secretly watching their FB profile.
If you happen to all for the FB Stalker app, you can be redirected to a malicious site that looks like a typical login page of Facebook. Please, do not enter your personal information on it because you will disclose it to malicious actors and lose your account! All these pages find pages that belong to business owners and try to scare them by sharing their posts and adding such message to the post:. Your account has been reported by others. Our system has received the following reports […] To prevent fraud, please re-confirm your Account to avoid blocking here: [link to a phishing Facebook page].
If you provide your login details to these scammers, they are going to hack your account immediately and use it for malignant purposes, for example, scam your friends asking them to lend money. Facebook Suspension comes in the form of an official message alerting the victim of the account suspension. In the email, the hackers claim that due to the violation of certain terms of use, the requisite account is to be suspended.
However, if this message is sent by mistake, the user should verify their account by clicking the indicated link. Do not click on it, as you may accidentally download a trojan or enable the full hack of your account.
There is also a possibility that you might be misled to the infected domain after clicking the link. Hackers did a pretty good job impersonating the official support team by giving credentials. However, you might still notice type and grammar mistakes.
The sender's email might raise suspicions as well. This version can be eliminated with the help of anti-spyware and anti-virus programs. Invitation Facebook virus is a different kind of virus that has been spreading for years. It spreads via emails and message boards and announces about a great danger on this social network. To be more precise, it foolishly warns its victims about the threat that comes as a message with an attachment called Invitation Facebook and the text states:.
However, security experts have revealed that this message includes trojan horse and other types of viruses. You should remove this scam letter as soon as you receive it. Automatic Wall Post is a cyber infection created for increasing the traffic to specific domains. Besides, it may negatively affect your computer's security and try to steal your personal information.
Also, it automatically makes a post on your wall and spreads in this way. If you see such a message, which seems like it has been posted by your friend, you should remove it from your wall immediately. Facebook Friend Request is a dangerous threat which sends friend requests from user's account to unknown people or, even worse, the ones who have been already blocked by a user. It has been reported that sometimes this virus manages to send more than invites to random people.
The point of creating and using this hasn't still been revealed. However, some experts claim that this threat may be used for taking over computers, shutting down their anti-virus programs, and similar activities.
Facebook Change Color is a sneaky variant of the virus relying on a message offering to change your social network's background to pink, red, black or another color. Just like other types of this threat, it may come to your inbox from one of your contacts, which has also been tricked by this scam message. Typically, it includes a malicious link helping scammers to drive more traffic to their online survey. If you click on this link, you will send this scam message to all your contacts.
Facebook Child Porn is a dangerous application circulating in the form of a pornographic video. It may seem that the message, which has this video attached, was sent by your friend, and it is safe.
However, after opening it, it becomes clear that it's related to child pornography. Scams spread via malicious or sponsored links.
Some of them promote highly suspicious webshops that are filled with fake deals. Users report that they have received suspicious offers on the social media platform to purchase Ray Ban glasses half the original price. We want to warn you that there is a similar hoax, known as Ray Ban Instagram. Ray Bans on sale? The victims of Facebook Ray Ban usually have a password-stealing malware installed on their computers. If you bought something off those fake websites, you should contact your bank ASAP and cancel the transaction.
If your account was hacked by Ray Ban, you should go to Facebook Hacked page and report a compromised account. One of the versions of the threats is designed to send deceptive messages via Messenger to infiltrate the system with Locky ransomware. As soon as the user clicks on it, the system is infected with a file-encrypting virus. Additionally, the criminals are trying their best to make the message seem convincing, so they add the following phrases:.
We should also add that the most of these links look like they were sent to you by one of your friends, so there is no surprise that the latest attack of threat it was initiated on the end of September managed to infect more than , users [14]. It is unknown how many users were tricked in November attack, but the number is suspected to be similar.
By clicking such link, you infect your account and start spreading scam yourself. Besides, such malware can easily infect your computer with the most dangerous computer viruses that are active during the distribution.
Besides, such threats have actively been used for acquiring sensitive information, such as logins, financial information, and other data which is considered confidential.
Unfortunately, hackers have already managed to release multiple versions of this threat. All of them are listed below. If you think that you are dealing with problems on your account, you might be infected. Check your wall for spammy posts, go thru your Messages for misleading links. If you can remember clicking them, you must remove scam ASAP.
There are several ways to fix your account and the affected PC system. In reality, most of the people whose name was used in this scam are not aware of that. Facebook video scam is a tricky scam which is particularly created to distribute potentially unwanted programs PUPs or even malware via messages on Messenger. Experts noted that it is still active in , so people must be extremely cautious. Those who have been infected say that they have received a direct text from one of their Facebook friends which includes several elements and a suspicious link:.
Therefore, it works like a chain reaction. Therefore, it is also reported that it can send messages in a different language. For instance, in the Netherlands, these messages are written in the Dutch language. The recent version of Facebook video threat is suspected to be spreading via Google Chrome extensions. However, it is designed to prevent victims from removing it easily.
This happens when the malware does the following:. After the attack, users are advised to reset Google Chrome. However, this may not work. If your friends continue reporting about messages sent from your account, you have to uninstall Chrome from your device.
What is more, if your account was hacked, you should also set a new password and change other accounts' passwords. Therefore, victims are suggested to protect sensitive data. In shadow of pandemic, Danish queen marks 50 years on throne.
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