Spammers have evolved to perpetrate some pretty complicated schemes to get their wares (and warez) to large audiences. Recently they’ve shown sophistication beyond simple mailings by breaking CAPTCHA codes, enlisting decoy social networking sites and blogs, and even some search engine optimization.
It’s a tangled web, the intricate knitting started with exploiting CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart-in case you never knew) vulnerabilities to set up email accounts, which are required to set up blogs and/or profiles on social networks with enough traffic and clout to pop up in the search results.
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