More Linkbucks Connected Spam

Some more referral spam has shown up on Blogger and one provided an unexpected connection to two earlier ones. The first was reported by commenter Charlotte and arrived as 0288c729 . qqc . co which leads to Linkbucks again like a link that started with ceae2122.

So what do you get if you click on that odd string of numbers and letters?

First up is an ad telling you that you absolutely need to download a download manager. Yeah, like that won’t lead to bad things on your system. Remember kids, don’t try this at home and don’t trust strange links. Never click on anything you don’t already know and that includes things sent by trusted friends.

Clicking on “skip the ad” brings up an error message just like with ceae3122 did. Somehow I was not surprised since there was a suspicion that the same person is behind the new link.

However, there was a surprise yet to come.

While I was taking the screenshot of the error message that popped up in a new tab, this loaded behind it. Wait a second… that looks strangely familiar. It’s the survey scammers from A.W. Well, well. What we have here is three referral spams that are all connected. Interesting, eh?

Bonus Spam

A couple more failed spam links showed up this past week too. Bothe were miserable failures.

gateway . scarpasoftware . net netted this placeholder. That’s an instant fail if I’ve ever seen one.

Topping that failure required something special and www . cheap-malls . com managed to pull that off. It wouldn’t load at all and a Google search pulled this up, but once again it wouldn’t load. Epic fail to spam!