Emma Watson is a popular, young actress who is best known for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter movies.  She is one of the most well searched celebrities on the Internet.  This intelligent Brown University graduate also may be one of the few celebrities who did not have nude photos of her stolen from the cloud.  It may even because she has not taken such pictures.  Regardless, there are many people who would very much like to see nude photographs of her which is why a new scam first reported by the security firm Bitdefender comes as no surprise.  This scam starts with a Facebook posting that promises nude videos of Emma Watson for free, merely by clicking on a link.  If you click on the link the image reproduced below appears on your screen.  Unfortunately, if you download the attachment in order to view the promised video, you will not succeed in seeing a video of Emma Watson, but you will succeed in downloading malware called Trojan.Agent.BFQZ which will steal the information from your computer or other electronic device and use it to make you a victim of identity theft, make postings using your name on Facebook and sign you up for expensive text message services for which you will be billed through your cellular service.

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Without even getting into the morality and ethics of viewing what appear to be privacy invading, stolen nude videos of public figures, the plain, hard truth is that many of these solicitations to view these videos are just bait by scammers and identity thieves to lure you into clicking on links and downloading attachments that will install malware on your computer or other electronic device that will end up costing you money and making you a victim of identity theft.  Trust me, you can’t trust anyone.  Never click on links or download attachments unless you are absolutely sure that they are legitimate.