Dissection of a Facebook Spammer and What You Can Learn From It

Have you seen a rise in sneaky ads on Facebook?

Have you seen a rise in sneaky ads on Facebook?

I saw this link bait on Facebook, apparently on a feud between Stephen Curry and LeBron James–two National Basketball Association superstars.

And it brought me to what looks like ESPN.

The URL is a bit suspect, but most people won’t notice that, especially in modern browsers.

Reading the first couple paragraphs of this “article,” I almost believed it was real, but notice the slight awkwardness that’s a dead giveaway of fake article sites.

This

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