{"id":72521,"date":"2011-08-04T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72521"},"modified":"2011-08-04T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T07:14:10","slug":"spammers-targeting-twitter-itunes-gift-card-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/spammers-targeting-twitter-itunes-gift-card-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers Targeting Twitter &#8211; &#8220;iTunes Gift Card spam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already seen some iTunes gift card scams spreading via Facebook, but today the thing to look out for is an iTunes Gift Card spam on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Some typical messages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/itunes-tweets-1WinCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of now the Twitter accounts sending out these messages all have a profile picture of random women.<br \/>\nIt seems that these Twitter users have been created purely for the purpose of spamming out these tweets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/itunes-spammer-2WinCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone clicking on the links gets redirected to a dating website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/russian-dating-3WinCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As expected, there are no signs of any free iTunes gift cards. Spammers are just using the lure of a free iTunes gift card to entice unsuspecting Twitter users into visiting their websites.<br \/>\nIn this way the spammers could easily take you to a webpage containing malware or a website which could potentially phish your passwords.<\/p>\n<p>So, avoid getting tricked by such spams on social networking platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already seen some iTunes gift card scams spreading via Facebook, but today the thing to look out for is an iTunes Gift Card spam on Twitter. Some typical messages: As of now the Twitter accounts sending out these messages all have a profile picture of random women. It seems that these Twitter users have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[35,42,25,29,66,31],"class_list":["post-72521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","category-twitter","tag-apple-itunes","tag-facebook-scam","tag-phishing","tag-social-engineering","tag-social-network-privacy","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}