Dissecting September's Twitter Scareware Campaign

Dissecting September's Twitter Scareware Campaign
DANCHO DANCHEV - blog ^ | September 25, 2009 | DANCHO DANCHEV

Posted on 09/26/2009 1:55:59 PM PDT by Cindy

UPDATE: 4 hours after notification, Twitter has suspended the remaining bogus accounts. Until the next time, when the reCAPTCHA recognition gets cost-effectively outsourced for automatic scareware-serving purposes.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Reference
KEYWORDS: internet; scareware; twitter

1 posted on 09/26/2009 1:56:00 PM PDT by Cindy

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To: Cindy

I don't understand why companies like twitter don't outsource the removal of spam accounts themselves. It's cheap and will drive up prices against the scammers who use that method now.

If you can pay a guy to register accounts, you can pay him to watch new accounts as well.

2 posted on 09/26/2009 2:00:52 PM PDT by ketsu (ItÂ’s not a campaign. ItÂ’s a taxpayer-funded farewell tour.)

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