Huge spam operation on Twitter uncovered

JMH · Mar 31, 2015

What does it take to execute a successful spam operation peddling diet pills of questionable effectiveness? For one spammer, it took some 750,000 fake Twitter accounts.

Symantec researchers first spotted the campaign - peddling Green Coffee Bean Extract, a supposedly miraculous diet supplement - in July 2014. Later they discovered that the same spammer has been using this approach since the beginning of the year.

With small variations, the tweets looked similar to this one:

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Huge spam operation on Twitter uncovered

JMH

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