May 25, 2009

Spammers love torrents

Torrent sites are popular with people who like to share files, but it seems that there could be another group that like torrent sites, but for an entirely different reason.

Spammers have found that that torrent sites such as the Pirate Bay are suffering from spam attacks on a regular basis that appear in the comments sections.

These spammers are leaving comments that promise to speed up downloads; fake copyright warnings and infected torrents, over the years these spam attacks have cost the torrent site users millions of pounds.

Speed is the key to a torrent user’s computer, the promise of a hundred per cent increase in speed is popular hook to gain the interest of users, but the increased speed never materialises and the user is out of pocket.

Source [Torrent Freak]