Posts Tagged ‘free gift card’

Instaspam: Instagram Users Receive Gift Card Spam

Apr

2012

Spammers are traversing through various social networks in order to find a new pool of users to dupe. We recently observed spam on social photo-sharing app Instagram. This campaign is similar to an earlier blog post which highlighted how spammers use social networking accounts to get users to click through to affiliate pages. Instagram users […]

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Free Amazon.com gift card promotion is a Facebook scam

Jan

2012

Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as a way of making them cash. One Free Amazon.com Gift Card (limited time only) [LINK] Amazon is currently giving away gift cards to all facebook users. Click here […]

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Free Costco Gift Card for all Facebook users? Scam spreads quickly

Dec

2011

Scams are sadly a fact of life if you’re a Facebook user, and scammers are constantly dreaming up new lures designed to trick users into clicking and sharing their revenue-generating links. One of the schemes we frequently see being used on Facebook is the “free gift card/voucher” scam, where users are tricked into believing that […]

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