Work at home spam spreads via Twitter, with a little help from TweetMeme

TweetMeme, a service which tries to work out which are the most popular links being spread via Twitter, has unfortunately helped spammers overnight promote a make-money-fast “work from home” website.

Thousands of Twitter accounts have been posting messages like the following in the last few hours:

hey everyone you’ve got to check this out I made $560 today so far [LINK]

or

check out this article! I made $200 today! [LINK]

or

CNBC7 – Work at home mom makes $6,795/month working part-time from home [LINK]

Clicking on the link takes you to a website called CNBC7, which poses as a genuine news website but was actually registered from China less than a week ago.

As we’ve seen in other scams of this type, the site claims to have been featured in the mainstream media (CNN, USA Today, Fox…

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