Multiple #MM spammers (Twitter)

November 22nd, 2010

UPDATE: Twitter suspended all of these accounts on the same day as this post. Thanks, Twitter!

Numerous accounts are mass-mentioning random users on Twitter.  The exact purpose of this spam is unclear; the tweets and the accounts tweeting them don’t link to any Web pages, although the first 5 accounts mentioned in every tweet are @DJJohnDigweed, @skrillex, @Avicii, @Deadmau5, and @djafrojack.  Although it’s possible that the spammers intend to advertise those user accounts, it’s probably more likely that the tweets only contain those users in order to make the tweets appear credible; the #MM hashtag usually means “Music Monday” and those accounts appear to be related to people in the music industry.

Every one of the accounts below is an obvious shill; they’re all following 0 users, and they’re all tweeting the same thing repeatedly and nothing else. Some of these accounts even share the same profile pictures.

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Also, here’s an unrelated spammer claiming to be giving away an Apple iPhone 4 to multiple random Twitter users:

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VirgilStengel (Twitter)

November 13th, 2010

Spamming a plethora of Twitter users (over 990 so far) with @ messages saying “Is that one of the Fat Slag’s **** it’s tattooed on?” with a link that redirects to a site (which incidentally claims to offer you money to send advertisements). The page to which unsuspecting clickers are redirected says “LADIES…NOT ONLY IS HE TATTOOED AND HOT, BUT HE HAS A GREAT VOICE AND PRESENCE SO GO CHECK IT OUT AND FOLLOW ON TWITTER @corduroyatl”.

Although the Twitter username is VirgilStengel, the account’s real name is listed as “Hiram Kyte.” Apparently, like AndrewLafounta (see the previous post), this spammer is also experiencing an identity crisis.

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See also the Web of Trust reports for the domains involved with the spam message:

AndrewLafounta (Twitter)

November 13th, 2010

Spamming a plethora of Twitter users (over 850 so far) with @ messages saying “Is that one of the Fat Slag’s **** it’s tattooed on?” with a link that redirects to a site (which incidentally claims to offer you money to send advertisements).  The page to which unsuspecting clickers are redirected says “LADIES…NOT ONLY IS HE TATTOOED AND HOT, BUT HE HAS A GREAT VOICE AND PRESENCE SO GO CHECK IT OUT AND FOLLOW ON TWITTER @corduroyatl”.

By the way, even though the Twitter username is AndrewLafounta, the account’s real name is listed as “Santina Dreyer.” Identity crisis, perhaps? ;)

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See also the Web of Trust reports for the domains involved with the spam message:

UPDATE: Another spam account (VirgilStengel) has also been found tweeting the same nonsense; see this follow-up post.

KarlaVenez14707 and other spammers (Twitter)

October 26th, 2010

These are a number of old spam accounts (created between June 2009 and June 2010) that Twitter has never cleaned up.

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101computers (Twitter)

September 20th, 2010

Shill account for rogue registry cleaner applications.  The sites linked to by this account are rated “red” in multiple categories (Spam, Phishing or other scams, Malicious content or viruses, Spyware or adware, etc.) by a significant volume of users on Web of Trust.  Both sites are listed on hpHosts as “Fraudulent software and websites, Severity: High Risk.”

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See also the Web of Trust reports for the domains being spammed:

hanskalin (Twitter)

September 16th, 2010

Spamming users who have recently tweeted about virtualization with fake replies that are actually out of context; purely spam.

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See also the Web of Trust report for the domain being spammed:

isitbangus (Twitter)

September 15th, 2010

Spamming a plethora of Twitter users with @ messages saying “check out your party profile”.

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twevelopeos (Twitter)

September 7th, 2010

This account is a bot that’s spewing nonsense and linking to random tech blogs (possibly as a proof-of-concept test in preparation for future spam attacks).

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“Test and Keep the new iPad/Macbook” Spam (Twitter)

September 6th, 2010

Several Twitter shill accounts are claiming you can “Test and Keep the new Macbook” or “Test and Keep the new iPad” (with each tweet sent as an @ reply to a single recipient).  These are obvious scams; clearly the spammers aren’t going to send out multiple thousands of dollars’ worth of iPads and MacBooks for free to anyone who clicks their links.

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ryan394i (Twitter)

August 24th, 2010

Repeatedly spamming the same affiliate redirect link by pretending to retweet people.

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