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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.

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I’m not going to click on the link, as I suspect it will either take me to a Made for Adsense site, or to a site that will install some malware.

Filed Under: Twitter Tagged With: Spam

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  1. James Docherty says

    November 6, 2009 at 3:28 am

    If you use twitIQ.com (an alternative web interface for Twitter) it expands short links before you click them so you know where they go without getting up to your eyeballs in pr0n/malware/ads.
    James

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  2. Dennis says

    November 7, 2009 at 11:29 am

    @James,
    Does TwitIQ have a plugin for Tweetdeck.
    I do all my tweeting through Tweetdeck, so it’s hard to see the actual url embedded in the short url.

    It’s interesting that Mr. Spammer always tries to play the same game: rip pictures from Myspace from pretty young girls, and try to build a profile on the newest social media sites. I’ve seen this happen on StumbleUpon two years ago.

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