Spammers Using Twitter and YouTube to Spread Spam

Twitter and YouTube is one of the most popular web 2.0 websites and spammers are using these websites to spread spam messages. Earlier spammers use Plain text, html, instant messaging, images, pdf, even in MP3 to spread messages via Email but users are able to learn and find these are spam messages and don’t open it. Let’s see how spammers using Twitter and YouTube to spread spam messages.

Spammers generally retweet messages on twitter with any message and malicious url.They will usually use a URL shortener, such as bit.ly, both to make it shorter and to obfuscate the destination. Once you click on the link, you are redirected to YouTube.

User is redirected to YouTube website, its a real YouTube website. it won’t ask you to install any codec and user will see real video. Well, as you can see is the spam message recorded in a video and uploaded to YouTube