With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, what better way to say “I love you” than, uh, losing your login details and spamming $500 Victoria’s Secret giftcards to all your Tumblr followers.
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As with the previous spam attacks (Starbucks gift cards and free plane tickets), the Tumblr post pretends to be a “Tumblr Staff Blog” and claims freebies await those who would click the link. The end-user is taken to a site asking for offer sign ups and referral schemes galore, just like last time.
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“Two reward offers from each of the silver and gold page options and nine reward offers from the platinum reward page and refer three friends to do the same.”
We can see from the Bit.l y stat page that there’s been 152 clicks on the above link so far, so it looks like we’ve probably caught this one early.
Do yourself a favour and steer clear. Boxes of chocolates, badly performed serenades and a sickeningly cute teddy bear are all more likely to win the heart of your loved one than ten ringtone signups and a Justin Bieber quiz.
Christopher Boyd
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