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Facebook Apps Pump Out Mobile “Entertainment” Spam

Attacks via social networks continued their steady march on Tuesday, as an untold number of Facebook users unwittingly found themselves caught up in a spam run that pointed friends to premium mobile entertainment Web sites. The attack spread via Facebook Wall posts purporting to offer gifts in exchange for users participation in a survey. The wall posts purported to be via mobile Web, suggesting that a mobile phone was used to post the spam messages. Attempts to load those links on Tuesday resulted in Page Not Found errors, and searches of Facebook s stable of applications failed to turn up any record of the named applications.

Source: https://threatpost.com/facebook-apps-pump-out-mobile-entertainment-spam-090710/74434/

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