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Google Plus Growth through Fembots

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According to this article of TheNextWeb, Google plus shows healthy growth, with more than 400 million activated profiles, and 100 million monthly active users. How the active user is defined, I’m not sure, as Google keeps the definition unclear. I, for one, am usually always logged into my Google account, which would make me an […]

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Google+ Spam #Fembots #FTW

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For the last 5 days, I’ve been getting notifications in my Gmail inbox somebody I don’t know has shared something with me on Google+. I thought it might be somebody I have circled back (Is that the right way of saying I have put the person in my circles after they had added me to […]

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Spam Comments – Do You See Comments About Pills

by Dennis Goedegebuure 1 Comment

A couple of days ago, my buddy Hugo wrote about the comments spam on blog and how this works from a spammer perspective. Just days after this post, my inbox is overflowing with comments full with spammy links, trying to sell pills for any kind of disease. Even if you have no-follow tags on any […]

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Twitter Fake Profiles

by Dennis Goedegebuure 2 Comments

And once again, a social media scam is breaking out. I now get messages from Twitter profiles that only include a short URL with a sexy looking girl as a profile picture. I’m not going to click on the link, as I suspect it will either take me to a Made for Adsense site, or […]

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Steve McNair Spam

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With every trending keyword in Google Search Trends comes the Spam. Just check out the following spam in the title, tags and the first paragraph on the following blog: The title is full with the most popular keywords around Steve McNair: Steve Mcnair Dead – Michelle Mcnair – Steve Mcnair wife Michelle – Michelle Cartwright […]

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