July 18th, 2008

Spammers and Scammers on Social Networks

It’s ironic that a few days before speaking on Using Social Media for Social Good I would wind up filing a complaint with the FTC about a possible fraud being committed on social networks. That same day we held a plurkshop on Internet security issues and microblogging. Hence the title of this post: spammers and scammers have arrived on your favorite social network.

Jennifer Leggio, network security geek and ZDNet blogger, introduced us to Adam J. O’Donnell, Director of…

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