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"Vin Diesel Has Died While Filming a Deadly Scene From Fast and Furious 7"

The Facebook hoax below, which claims that Vin Diesel has died is similar to the other celebrity hoaxes we reported on a few weeks ago. Vin Diesel is alive and has not died while filming a deadly scene for the movie Fast & Furious 7, which the hoax claims. The Facebook hoax was designed to trick Facebook users into sharing a malicious website, which will help spread it to other Facebook users.

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There is no video, and if you click on the Facebook post, you will be taken to the phishing website www.news-today.pw. Never visit this website.

The Vin Diesel Fake and Malicious Website news-today.pw

Vin Diesel died while filming a deadly scene for the movie Fast & Furious 7. They have to film the scene again because the original stunt was with

Again, there is no video and Vin Diesel is alive, so do not click the Facebook “Share” button. This is how cybercriminals trick Facebook users into sharing a website, making the website popular, so that they can earn money from it by selling it to the highest bidder.

So, if you were tricked into sharing this scam, please remove all posts of this scam from your Facebook Timeline or Wall.

This celebrity death hoax is similar to the Celine Dion, Will Smith,Shaggy, Rapper Eminem, Jackie Chan, Oprah Winfrey, Miley Cyrus and Angelina Jolie hoaxes.

There is also a fake Vin Diesel Facebook page, click here for information.

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