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YourBizBegin spam campaign on Facebook
October 19, 2009
A fairly successful spam campaign is currently active on Facebook. The
campaign advertises the web sites YourBizBegin.com and
YourBizStart.com, which promise easy money for working from home.
Googling for the site names shows various reports and complaints, for
example, the ones on
hkactivity,
RipoffReport,
and
Google.
The picture above shows a (sanitized) screenshot of a couple of messages that appeared on a compromised account. The text of all the spammed messages I have seen are similar to the ones shown above. The only variations I have observed so far are in the dollar amounts and the 3-letter signatures.
The web sites YourBizBegin.com and YourBizStart.com appear to be just
front-ends for
www.HomeBizOffer.net. HomeBizOffer.net pushes a "Google Profit Club
Kit," which, according to the site itself, should enable one to make an
easy $200–$943 per day via Google ads. Downloading the kit costs
only $3.95 of processing fee. Needless to say, the fine print at the
bottom of the pages discloses that a membership rate of $74.93 is
charged monthly.
Furthermore, the terms of use and privacy policy terms on
homebizoffer.net points at another web site, secureweboffer.com.
Here is some more information about the involved web sites:
- yourbizbegin.com, registrant: HAIJUN ZHAO, IP: 121.199.253.194 (TIMENET BeiJing Sincerity-times Network Technology Project Ltd.)
- yourbizstart.com, registrant: HAIJUN ZHAO, IP: 121.199.253.122 (same)
- homebizoffer.net, registrant: JIANG ZHAO, IP: 121.199.253.125 (same)
- secureweboffer.com, registrant: DomainsByProxy, IP: 174.143.244.146 (RMH-14 - Rackspace.com, Ltd.)
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