Technical support spammers have been shamelessly marketing their services on LinkedIn by taking advantage of the social networks generally free features. These posts purportedly cater to companies in the anti-virus (Norton, Kaspersky, AVG), email (Outlook, Hotmail), and telecommunication (Comcast) industries and others. Social networks that target a variety of users, such as Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Quora, and others that welcome free public postings, were also made into inadvertent launchpads.”]