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Gift Coupon spammers now also aim at Pinterest users – More and more web 2.0 platforms get spammed with fake offers

26

Mar

2012

There are various active spam campaigns spreading on the pinboards of Pinterest users, such as e.g. fake H&M coupons, an offer for a free coach handbag, fake Walmart, Ikea, Starbucks, Apple iPad, etc. Some Pinterest accounts have at least one whole album full of those dubious offers, promoting various brands: It’s the usual game: people […]

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Update: A 50? gift card for free?! “Hey, I’m no fool!”

30

Jan

2012

The new websites we found also seemingly offer 50? gift cards to the first 5,000 customers who follow the instructions given. This means the users have to share this particular site on Facebook, among other things. Sharing the website entails that many more people reach out to the website and the money is put into […]

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FakeAV online scanner scam still in the wild – Let’s have a look at the possible evolution of some famous FakeAV scanner scams

07

Dec

2011

The FakeAV business faced a decrease in the last few months. Due to federal law enforcement activities against the FakeAV industry and some major search engine optimizations to prevent blackhat seo poisoning, less infections of FakeAV programs were reported in the last five months. Despite those measures, FakeAV is still a serious threat to everyone […]

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