Why Facebook Spam Could Soon Rival Email Spam
Spam is more effective via Facebook than email – but people are catching on fast. That’s the conclusion from anti-virus firm F-Secure, quoted in this story in Information Week.
Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at F-Secure, studied two recent spam campaigns that purported to be about a McDonald’s “Happy Meal Horror” and used bit.ly short links. Sullivan found a statistics dashboard tied to the attack and discovered that the spam campaign had netted a combined 32,000 clicks and 15,000 “likes” on Facebook.
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