As DDoS Attacks Cool, Yet Another Twitter Spam Invasion Underway

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 20:36

As we learn more about the Denial of Service Attacks that took down Twitter and other social media sites earlier today, yet another wave of spam is invading the microblogging service.

Thousands of tweets are currently being spread around the network pointing to a website promoting a dubious money making scheme: ThursdayProfit.org.

It appears that this is the exact same scam as yesterday , where links to the same style of site with a different...


 

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