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Facebook video spam revamped

12
May
2011

Last week there was an outbreak on Facebook of video spam related to Osama bin Laden’s death. The previous spam was basically variations of this:If a curious user clicked on the link in the spam, it would eventually bring them to a page which basically makes the user manually send out spam to his own […]

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One more clickjacking Facebook attack – “First Exposure: iPhone 5” scam.

12
May
2011

Few weeks back it was Bin Laden execution video scam on Facebook and now its “First Exposure: iPhone 5” scam that is going around. Facebook users are fooled into automatically spreading spam by clicking on what looks like a link to a hot topic news titled as “First Exposure: iPhone 5”.This new scam is exploiting […]

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Email Spam Re-produce False News Alerts for “Work From Home” Scams

11
May
2011

Scammers have been busy these days generating false news alerts through email spam. In this way, they are trying to advertise their so-called rewarding “work from home” business. They are using names of well known news agencies in the email headers to arouse curiosity in the email reader’s mind. Using these names in the Subject […]

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