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Facebook flooded with fake profiles

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 7, 2008 3:04AM PDT

Spammers and malware writers exploiting site to infect users

Written by Phil Muncaster

vnunet.com, 07 Oct 2008

Up to 40 per cent of new Facebook profiles could be fictitious registrations created by spammers and malware writers to infect end users, security firm Cloudmark has warned.

Neil Cook, European head of technology services at Cloudmark, told vnunet.com that research carried out by the firm revealed that between 20 and 40 per cent of new profiles on the popular social networking site could be bogus.

More: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2227649/facebook-flooded-fake-profiles

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