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You click the link, it copies bad code, then asks you to paste the code on a privileged terminal window and hit run.
I saw this a week sometime ago and I had to explain it to all my family members. Evilness.
Easily defeated by not giving users root access.
Taking away admin access on my mother's windows machine was one of the best decisions I made. Along with moving her to Ubuntu after she ran without admin 'which she had to have' (even though all it let her do was fuck up her computer). Saved so many hours reinstalling or disinfecting her machine.