Facebok spam generates millions
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 08/30/2013 03:48 PM
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Andrea Stroppa and Carlo De Micheli, A pair of Italian security researchers, estimates that the practice of Facebook scamming brings in around $200m a year.
"The spam posters get paid an average of $13 per post, for pages that have around 30,000 fans, up to an average of $58 to post on pages with more than 100,000 fans," De Micheli told The Guardian.
"If we consider these two as extremes, the pages we analysed generate a revenue of 18,000 posts per day, times the revenue per post – ranging from $13 to $58 – 365 days a year."
"We have developed a number of automated systems to identify potentially harmful links and stop them from spreading," a Facebook company spokesman said. "Those systems quickly spotted these links, and we are working to clear them from the site now."
"The spam posters get paid an average of $13 per post, for pages that have around 30,000 fans, up to an average of $58 to post on pages with more than 100,000 fans," De Micheli told The Guardian.
"If we consider these two as extremes, the pages we analysed generate a revenue of 18,000 posts per day, times the revenue per post – ranging from $13 to $58 – 365 days a year."
"We have developed a number of automated systems to identify potentially harmful links and stop them from spreading," a Facebook company spokesman said. "Those systems quickly spotted these links, and we are working to clear them from the site now."
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