The latest virus hoax to spread across Facebook was probably started as a silly joke, but its not funny how many people are believing it to be true and sharing it with their online friends. The hoax appears to have sprung up on the back of a popular (and harmless) game where Facebook users change their profile picture to that of a giraffe if they get a question wrong. The message itself is nonsense, of course, but the real CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center is Johannes Ullrich, not James Thompson.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/giraffe-virus-hoax-spreads-facebook-users-fail-see-joke/