A report about an allegedly kidnapped boy is just a lure to get Facebook login details.
The most important thing about the allegedly kidnapped boy in brief:
- An article about an allegedly kidnapped boy is spreading on Facebook
- A video of the kidnapping can be seen on the site
- The video is a phishing trap; This allows fraudsters to gain access to users’ login details
Many Facebook users are currently spreading a supposed newspaper article about a recent kidnapping. However, it is a perfidious lure: this kidnapping does not even exist, but curiosity causes users to fall into a phishing trap.
This is what the frequently posted post on Facebook looks like:

If you look closely, you'll see the first strange thing: While the URL says "little girl", the teaser and the article behind it talk about a little boy.
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The preview image
Perhaps the URL headline confusion is because the child in the thumbnail is actually a girl who in 2014 for having her hair cut for charity.
The article
This contains very little text, no location at all and an incorrect time. As we could see from the source code of the page, the article always has the current date of today, the article only says "This morning around 8 a.m."... Users who read the article at 6 a.m., for example, might be slightly surprised.
The video
The article is supposed to contain a video of the kidnapping, but when you click the play button you are asked to log into a separate page on Facebook to confirm that you are over 18.

Be careful, phishing trap!
The following page only looks like Facebook, but the URL (outlined in red by us) shows that it is not the real Facebook page!

By the way, after “login” (for which we used imaginary data) you don’t see a video, but rather you are redirected to the main page of “BILD”, but the newspaper certainly has nothing to do with it. Further analysis of the source code revealed that the creators of the phishing site probably come from Poland:

At this point, the criminals now have the Facebook user's login information and can continue to spread the false article.
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Conclusion
The article about the kidnapped boy is purely a lure to get users' Facebook login details. Users who clicked on the video and entered their real login details should change their Facebook password as soon as possible!
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