Yesterday, I was browsing through Facebook. I never really look at the ads on the right hand side of the page. Or rather, I should say that I never click on them. However, yesterday, my curiosity was piqued. There was an ad that I had already qualified for a free (free!) $1000 gift card from Best Buy because I was a male of a certain age. I was intrigued. Being in the antimalware space and as someone who has fought spam for years, trying to combat these annoying gift cards that plague user inboxes, I decided to click on the link. Maybe these types of ads were a way to circumvent spam filters. Perhaps social networking is the next big thing for spammers targeting users. Well, perhaps not the next big thing since they are already doing it.
I clicked on the link, and here’s where I was taken to:
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