of now, different spammers and scammers are making use of user-generated content sites for distributing viruses and malware links. Such pirate files are being advertised on games, software and plenty of other platforms.
With this, they have the intention to lure users and give them lucrative deals to visit pirate sites. Now, the issue here is that they are choosing Facebook and Google as a medium for advertising.
Since there are plenty of other platforms, the pirate people are busy in advertising on Facebook and Google.
Hence, to let you know more about the Scamming in Google and Facebook, let’s move ahead and discover some essential information.
Scammers Use Google And Facebook To Spread Malicious Pirate Files Story
The very last weekend, TorrentFreak reported how the scammers are sending notices of DMCA. This is being done to downrank the game pirate sites which might have a conspiracy revolving around it.
More probably, this is being done to give pirate sites much better rankings in the search results. Meanwhile, TorrentFreak spoke with an activist and found some spams on medium.com, bitly.com, and many other sites.
However, most of the sites are quite cooperative and immediately cleaned up their systems after they got such news.
With almost any scam, it is impossible to eliminate piracy completely. However, as per the sources, some platforms are more reliant than others. At big tech companies like Facebook and Google, they are truly having a hard time.
For years, the scammers are continuously using Facebook events for promoting their malware and trojan links. In some rare cases, the events have remained online for quite months such as the Fix Problem Account.
In this account, you will find links to hundreds of pirated games, software, and other content. However, there are no events but the listings can definitely help to increase the SEO and page rankings.
A Word of Mouth By an Anonymous Person
“The list is really long, but what was great is that all these services immediately responded to my reports. Some of them implemented spam filters and medium.com even sent a t-shirt to thank me,” says a source, who prefers to remain anonymous.
On an initial basis, Facebook posts were linked to the sites from where malware content can be downloaded. But, recently, Google became the major target and its groups was a great tool for the scammers.
Hence, the people who follow such links don’t get software, games, and movies. Instead, they are downloading malware and viruses into their systems.
For weeks, plenty of the groups were online and some still are running without any reports. Meanwhile, the new groups are even coming ahead and spreading links to malicious files and viruses.
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The final word of Mouth: Scammers Use Google And Facebook To Spread Malicious Pirate Files Story
At present, it is almost impossible to verify any of the claims and acquisitions. What we can only say is that a huge scam is being run on Facebook as well as in Google Groups.
Thus, these companies will have to take a step ahead, clean their systems and remove any sorts of pirate files, at the very earliest.
content credit- Torrent Freak
