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Black Hat SEO and Twitter Harmful for Valentine's Day

As it could not be otherwise for hours they are already circulating harmful messages on Twitter with alleged offers and promotions for the Saturday of Valentine's Day on February 14.

For example, the following Twitter message offering gifts from Victoria Secret:

When the user clicks on the shortened link through Bit.ly, they are asked for their credit card details to receive a $100 discount coupon (not even 1,000, as it appears in the message):
To the... As it could not be otherwise for hours they are already circulating harmful messages on Twitter with alleged offers and promotions for the Saturday of Valentine's Day on February 14.

For example, the following Twitter message offering gifts from Victoria Secret:

When the user clicks on the shortened link through Bit.ly, they are asked for their credit card details to receive a $100 discount coupon (not even 1,000, as it appears in the message):
At the time of writing the number of people who have entered the harmful link is 3,832:
In addition, that same user has created hundreds of other harmful links and here are the amount of income to each of them:
As we can see, these are not insignificant figures, which indicates the level of ignorance that exists regarding the use of social networks and how they can be used by criminals.

Now what about search engines and black hat SEO techniques as usual?
In this aspect for hours there are already dozens of harmful links in Google, when searches related to Valentine's Day are carried out.

For example, in the following search you can see three harmful links of which Google has only blocked one of them:

Any of those links lead the user to the site http://www3.[ REMOVED]securityholder.in. This site has been registered yesterday in the US and when you enter it you try to download a fake antivirus (rogue) under the pretext that the computer is infected, which only happens if you download the file offered.
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As always on these dates it is better to be doubly forewarned.

Cristian from the Segu-Info Newsroom

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