Pinterest Spammer earn more than $30,000 in a month?

A 24-year-old man who calls himself “Steve” makes more than $1,000 per day pinning Amazon product links on Pinterest, one of 2012′s hottest social networks.

Taking advantage of the startup’s fast growth and optimal user demographics — consisting mostly of brand-savvy women with an annual household income of more than $100,000 and a love of shopping — spammers are making huge amounts of money just by pinning items to Pinterest and directing consumers to make purchases on Amazon.

He’s made up to $1,900 a day since he started spamming Feb. 20. The above image was Pinned with a link to Steve’s Amazon account, through which fake user “Nancy Nelon” only pins items from Amazon.com. The Pinterest account is also linked to a Twitter feed that bears no activity and a different first name.

“I fully expect next week’s earnings to be $2,000 to $2,500 a day. There are no guarantees in this business and it could all come crashing down soon,” he said. “Not a matter of if, but when will it happen.”

Out of Steve’s collection of fake accounts, he says, Pinterest has only deleted one.

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Facebook Spams Evolved

The links usually redirect in two steps to a Canadian Pharmacy website where various (fake) meds are offered at unbelievable prices.

We have noticed a new type of mail which at the first glance seems to be from the mentioned category . This time, there is  a text:

“Please call +7 951 xyzq”.

According to its prefix, the number is from Russia. I am not an expert in international phone numbers, but if we consider that the numbers starts with “9″ then I think I can assume that it is a very expensive number.

Can it be that the Canadian Pharmacy spam doesn’t bring anymore enough money to the spammers and they are searching for new methods of getting some easy money?

Fortunately for us, the spam is malformed and it is quite easy to detect it as spam.

But this opens a new chapter in Facebook related spam – now those who are not aware of such scams can lose some serious money.

Facebook will never ask you to call any number. They will also never sent you such a notification and definitely your Facebook Inbox will never get full.

We strongly advise all users to never call any number present in such emails.

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