scams

The “Find your stalkers” Facebook scam

Today I received a strange Facebook message. Supposedly one of my friends (an old classmate of mine in Germany) had posted on my wall, but the posting was in English. Now this German friend, unless he happens to forward me an English joke, always writes to me in German. There were several of these wall posts (please DO NOT CLICK on those links!):

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Fake news / “work at home mom” job scams

During the last couple of weeks I have listed hundreds of domains that are part of an ongoing spam campaign advertising bogus “Work at home jobs”. The websites advertised by these spams were designed to look like they belong to commercial TV channels, sometimes illegally including the CNBC logo and many of the domain names contain terms like “cnbc”, “nbc”, “abc” or “news”.

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