Thursday, August 29, 2013

Facebook Spammers Running A $200 Million Business [Research]

Facebook Spammers Running A $200 Million Business [Research]

Its actually not that hard to spot spammers on the world's biggest social network. Most of them operate through Facebook Pages, by posting links to direct traffic to third party scam websites. A team of security researchers based in Italy have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on Facebook to conclude that spamming has become a business that pays north of $200 million annually. Facebook has over a billion users, many of them like dozens of Pages each day, Pages that resonate with their likes and interests. Spammers set up fake Pages, build following and start directing those fans to scam websites.

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