Anatomy of a scam campaign, from the point of view of a link shortener

I run a free link shortener as a side project. A few thousand people use it a day, and about 75,000 links sit in the database. Once a week I go through them looking for the ones that are up to no good. Last week’s sweep turned up one destination that had taken 89,826 clicks in 48 hours. More than everything else on the site combined. I deleted the... Weiterlesen