Stop Twitter Spam

USA Today has a detailed article today about “Scareware” pitches being distributed through multiple channels, including Twitter.  From USA Today: Scareware’s pitches for fake security show up in odd places:

Cutting-edge scareware marketing campaigns are being delivered via:

•YouTube and Twitter. The bad guys sign up for a handful of new YouTube or Twitter accounts. In the case of YouTube, crooks recently used about a dozen new accounts to begin posting comments on 30,000 videos, says Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. The comments enticed users to click on a link that triggered a scareware promotion.

In a variation of this ploy, crooks in late May created new Twitter accounts and began broadcasting tweets declaring “Best video” with a Web link of http://juste.ru, says Schouwenberg. Clicking on the link launched a sequence that replicated the message to everyone on the victim’s friends list, then launched a scareware promo.