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Just Click No-On Facebook Scams

15

Jul

2011

The scam waves in Facebook continue, as expected. For example the recent “brother raped his sister” theme has been changed a bit and sent along for a new run on the social network. It’s the same content that has been used with similar themes over the last few weeks, only the scammers have just added […]

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Spammers and compromised accounts

14

Jul

2011

Our friends at Commtouch have blogged about something that is no surprise – spammers using compromised accounts vs. bots (their latest threat report is quite good and worth reading btw). While compromised email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) are not new, there is a little more to it: There was a massive takedown of a […]

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Lady Gaga will follow you on Twitter… – . but not until you’ve finished this very costly SMS quiz and provided your personal data!

14

Jul

2011

What is it about?The website we found, also reported to spread via Facebook, promises to connect the visitor to pop superstar Lady Gaga. This would be nothing special, as Lady Gaga has the most popular micro blogging account, according to Twitaholic. BUT, the website announces to get Lady Gaga to follow YOUR Twitter account and […]

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