Recent news about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, allegedly found by a sailor, has been revealed to be a scam.

A Facebook video claiming to show the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found by a sailor was in fact a marketing scam.

The video entitled, "Newest Video: Malaysian Air Flight MH370 Found by Sailor Moments Ago," and sub-headed, "the mystery is solved and the sailor is rewarded with $5 million," is currently circulating on Facebook.

With the scam follows a never-ending number of irritating marketing surveys. The photo shows an aircraft partially submerged, inviting viewers to click a link which brings the user to a bogus Facebook page, instructing them to share it with other Facebook friends so that the video can be spread.

The page contains pages with surveys asking for a mobile number and subscribes the scam victim to an expensive messaging service.

Needless to say, it is not recommended to click the link.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was on its way to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, and went missing with no trace as of today, despite an extensive search joined in by several countries.

The fligth departed from Kuala Lumpur but lost contact with air traffic control at 1.20 a.m. local time. It is believed the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, crashed in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.

The missing flight has made headlines on all major news outlets, so that breaking news on the search progress would fist appear on Facebook is very unlikely. However, many are vulnerable to fall victim to the scam, which aims to trick users into sending money via mobile services to the scammers' pockets.

The scam tries to ask victims to share private information like email address or phone number, which the criminals then use in spams or for expensive messaging service subscriptions.

Family members of the flight's missing passengers are raising $5 million for a private investigation or a reward that lead to knowing what happened to the aircraft, hoping genuine whistleblowers will appear.