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Spammers Using Social Networks to Personalize Spam
- All Spammed Up, Friday, February 15, 2013 4:55 PM
Spammers are personalizing messages with personalized information obtained through social networks for a new campaign. They employ a number of tactics to collect the information, including setting up fake accounts and sending friend requests, cloning accounts and contacting the friends of the original account, and also by harvesting personal data that many users put in their profiles unaware that it is publicly visible.
