Cyber crooks are setting traps on the news sharing site Digg, according to the security outfit PandaLabs. The crims are posing as Digg members and then providing links to bogus online video in comments posted in forums.

Digg members chat about stories in accompanying online forums and it is normal for people to stick links to other news stories and videos. The usual technique is for the cyber-frauds post comments claiming to have links to video of starlets having sex or stars getting into trouble.

As usual they end up downloading a program that pretends to scan computers for malicious software.  The software claims to find critical problems and then offers to eliminate the imagined trouble at a price. More than 50 profiles have left comments designed to lure members into the trap. Digg said that it knows about the problem and has so far deleted 300 accounts suspected of spreading malware.