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Nov17

Starbucks Survey Scam Targets Both Facebook and Twitter Users

5:22 am (UTC-7) | by Ediste dela Cruz (Anti-spam Research Engineer)

Late last month we reported about survey scams, and how such threats go across platforms from social networks to mobile. Back then we reported a scam deployed through Facebook, which enticed users into clicking links by offering free Starbucks coffee.

We saw a scam very similar to the one we reported before, except for some differences. First off, instead of being deployed solely through Facebook, the one we found arrives via spammed messages:

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