Snapshot of clickbait webpage

No, this is not a video of a Pakistani student filmed in a compromising position, it’s part of a series of ad clickbait posts

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Published on August 10, 2018 at 16:10
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By AFP Pakistan

A post shared on several Facebook pages with more than three million followers says: "Punjab University's young girl caught having sex in Jinnah Garden watch the video." When the link is clicked, a video is not played. Instead an ad page opens for: “Hotel Booking Deals.”

Below is a screenshot of the Facebook post.

Snapshot of misleading Facebook post

But clicking on the post leads to this page, which is part of a trend in Pakistan using Facebook posts with sexual innuendo to lure people to advertisements under false premises.

The post has been shared to more than 3.2 million followers on Facebook, according to data from social media monitoring site Crowdtangle.

A reverse image search shows the same images in the post have been used for similar fake video links to lure advertisers dating back to 2017.

They are screenshots from a movie scene of a bus accident posted on Youtube, and not a woman having sex in the open. Below is the video of the genuine video.

Many other fake posts in Pakistan use similar tactics to attract clicks to advertisements, some using the same domain names and leading to hotel booking advertisments.

One features an image of a woman on the back of a motorcyle with her back exposed with a caption that reads: "How girls commuting to Lahore colleges are exposing [themselves] in the name of fashion, if you see the video, you will...."

But when the link is clicked it opens to this hotel booking page.

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