Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people to third-party scam sites are earning $200m every year, according to calculations by a team of
Italian security researchers who have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on the social network. Andrea Stroppa and Carlo De Micheli, the leaders of the group, analysed pages across the
network, and identified spam through the use of phrases such as "Hey click here
for a free iPhone" followed by links to sites outside the network.
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