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Fraudsters using twitter to con people into buying goods such as fake anti virus software
F-Secure has reported more and more fake Twitter accounts being auto-generated by the bad boys.
The security company said the profiles look real, they have variable account and user names (often German) and different locations (US cities). They even upload different Twitter wallpapers automatically.
All the tweets sent by these accounts are auto-generated, either by picking up keywords from Twitter trends or by repeating real tweets sent by humans.
The links eventually lead to fake websites trying to scare you into purchasing a product such as fake anti virus software.
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