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Football star David Beckham is the latest victim of a worrying scam by online fraudsters using the popular social networking phenomenon, Twitter, as a vehicle for spam advertising.

 

According to Candid Wueest, senior threat researcher at Symantec, the fraudsters create a fake Twitter account, often in the name of a celebrity, and then attempt to become followers of legitimate Twitter account holders.

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