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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Stock Trading Spam Hits Flickr

Here's an interesting spam gimmick - do a search for something in Google / Yahoo / whatever:


.....meanwhile, the bad guy has stuffed a bunch of keywords into a Flickr screenshot page, then inserted one of those wonderful stock trading spam messages into the screenshot area. When people arrive at his Flickr page, they see this:

....awesome. In fact, this particular profile is stuffed to bursting point with keywords galore leading to yet more trading spam...

......and a pile of Viagra / cheap software garbage, too:

I've seen a few other profiles doing this, too.

....resuming ho-ho-holidays....

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