NURUL NABILAH HUDA BINTI MAHMAD

29 AUGUST 1997

20 YEARS OLD

KEMAMAN, TERENGGANU

Study at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Kampus Puncak Perdana in Bachelor of Science (Hons)
Information System Management

Travelling is my interest since I was young. One of my biggest dream is I hope one day I can travel
around the world while capture all those memories in pictures that I will keep forever.

MOTTO

DO NOT GIVE UP! THE BEGINNING IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST

 SPAM
Spamming on Social
Media
What is Spam?

What is Spam?
Electronic spamming is the use of electronic The message,
messaging systems to send an unsolicited message which was first
(spam), especially advertising, as well as sending spotted states
messages repeatedly on the same site. Nowadays, that, Now you
spam is no longer rare happen in daily life. Every can change your
single person must be experienced spam at least WhatsApp and
once. Nowadays, there are many issues related to leave it with your
spam in many way especially on social media. favourite colour.

WhatsApp WARNING - As soon as the

Why you should NOT use
this 'new' feature
Whatsapp users are being warned about new spam
which suggest the popular service can now be
customised with a range of colours. Here is why you
shouldnt click on this link. Whatsapp users across
the world are being urged not to click on a new
spam message which teases an option to
customise the app.
message is
received on a
phone, fans of
the popular app
are asked to share the message with 12 friends to
activate and verify the new custom colour feature.
Once users have verified themselves, they are
then told that WhatsApps colors can only be used
via a desktop and, to make the new feature work,
they are asked to install an extension called
BlackWhats from the Chrome Web Store.
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Spamming on
on Social
Social Media
Media

So after send the message, ask your friends to read

your chats. His/her Whatsapp account will be crash
However, the message and extension actually
for some time and Whatsapp will be hang.
appear to be fake and could end up with users
installing nasty adware along with infecting 12 of
their friends at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7odV4PHCvFA

Whatsapp Bomber Crash

Friends Whatsapp Remotely
by Sending Message
This spamming method is some sort like prank on
Whatsapp. You can make fun by crashing your
friends Whatsapp account by sending simple
messages. You spy Whatsapp messages /
Whatsapp spying and hang Whatsapp of your As soon he open your message, his/her Whatsapp
friends. Your friend will say to you that Whatsapp is will be crash and he will not be able to use his
crashing on his device. Whatsapp Bomber required Whatsapp account at least for 5 minutes, depending
a different level of crashing someones Whatsapp on various factors like phones performance and
account. How this bomber working is by bombing level.
downloading an application Whatsapp bomber
application download. Select a level, copy a
message and send to victim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s49gsm-XaY

Whatsapp Bomber Messages
How This Anti-Spam
Feature Can Threaten a
Spammers Privacy?
One of criteria that WhatsApp will use for spam
detection is message sending rate. If you cross the
threshold, your account will be under scrutiny. And
this scrutiny is problematic.
The second criterion is to find the uniqueness of
these messages. Spammers send same messages
to multiple accounts; hence, uniqueness is best way
to distinguish a genuine user.
Now to check the uniqueness of a message, in my
opinion, there are two ways. First, compare the size
of unique appearing messages. This is dubious and
doesnt provide good insight.
Spamming on Social Media
Second, read the text and figure out whether two
sent texts to two different users are same or not.
This is a better way to check the uniqueness. You
must have gotten the point by now. If you get
marked as a spammer, your messages may be
getting read.
Account-Hopping
Compliment Droppers on
Instagram
Instagram is incredibly popular, over 600 million
people tap the app every month. Due to its success,
Instagram is no longer just an app that you secretly
use during your shift for some people,
Instagramming has become the shift. Its now a
legitimate profession. The amount of followers on
your account can significantly improve your mood
when visiting the ATM and that has changed things.
Most of us continue to use Instagram in the right
way as a platform for appreciating and uploading
photos. But there are some lurking entrepreneurs
like pick-pockets at rush hour, they move through
the crowd with a dodgy motive. They dont care
about filters and angles, they care about stats. And
they have their methods. These people and their
fake adulation are everywhere, and its clear what
theyre after.
They want our attention; they want us to feel
flattered and gratified. They want us to click on their
profiles and reply the gesture by following them or
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Spamming on Social Media

a week until you stop paying for the service. As the

liking their stuff. Bombarding people with fake site states, its like creating a small robot clone of
positivity will actually boost your Instagram stats.
yourself with the same interests and style, and then
letting it work for you on Instagram. Creepy
wording aside, thats a really nice way of saying that
this software will send your account on a liking and
commenting rampage, even while youre asleep. In
days, Instagress will have already liked thousands
of photos and videos on your behalf, and some of
these Instagrammers that youve given some love
Example of Compliment Dropper Text to will swing by your account and show you some
love, too. Its as simple as Ill scratch your back and
then maybe youll scratch mine, except with the
Botting on Instagram help of Instagress, youre able to scratch a humanly
impossible number of backs and, in turn, reap the
In the world of Instagram, there is a practice known likes, comments, and follows.
as botting. Botting is the process of tying your
Instagram account to a wide variety of automation
software, which charge users small sums of money
to juice their profile. At the heart of it, its a pay-to-
play relationship where youre paying money to
grow your following on Instagram. One of the
popular bot called Instagress. If youve ever
wondered how certain businesses and celebrities
have millions of followers on social media, you may
be surprised to find out that they have entire social
media teams dedicated to managing their accounts.
Thats because amassing a huge number of
Instagram followers takes a ton of manual work.

The easier way to become Instagram famous rather

than doing a ton of manual work is to use
Instagress. Its a powerful piece of software that is
always evolving, but at the heart of it, you tell
Instagress what keywords you want it to like or
comment on, and it will run 24 hours a day, 7 days
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Today Facebook announced an algorithm change

that it detects links that are aggressively shared by
suspected spammers, and deprioritizes them in the
News Feed. Facebooks research shows that these
links tend to include low quality content such as
clickbait, sensationalism, and misinformation, so
showing these links less prominently could improve
the quality of what people see on the social network
even if this change doesnt analyze the specific
content behind the links.
Clickbait, Sensationalism
and Misinformation on
Facebook

Facebook cant suspend peoples accounts just for

sharing 50-plus false, sensational or clickbaity news
articles per day. It doesnt want to trample anyones
right to share. But theres nothing stopping it from
burying those links low in the News Feed so few
people ever see them.
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If you just like to post a lot on Facebook, this

shouldnt affect you. Pages are free to post as much
as they want as this change only scrutinizes
individual user accounts. And Facebook says only
Pages that depend on these spammers for traffic
will see a drop in their distribution.

Aggressive Following
Behavior (Mass Following
and Mass Unfollowing for
Attention)
Aggressive following is defined as indiscriminately
following hundreds of accounts just to garner
attention. However, following a few users if their
accounts seem interesting is normal and is not
considered aggressive.

What is Aggressive Follow

Example of clickbait shared on Facebook Churn?
If you decide to follow someone and then change your
If Facebook can banish this kind of content from its
mind later, you can just visit the persons profile page
feed, people will spend more time reading, be more
and unfollow them. Aggressive follow churn is when
confident about what they click and Facebook can
an account repeatedly follows and then unfollows a
better fulfill its new mission statement to bring the
large number of users. This may be done to get lots
world closer together. While blatantly false news
of people to notice them, to circumvent a Twitter limit,
gets most of the attention, its only a small fraction
or to change their follower-to-following ratio. These
of whats shared. Sensational and biased content
behaviors negatively impact the Twitter experience
that polarizes society is a more subtle but sizable
for other users, are common spam tactics, and may
problem. Downranking this content in News Feed
lead to account suspension
could help liberals and conservatives build stronger
bridges across the ideological divide. Twitter works quite differently from social networks:
when you accept friend requests on other social
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networks like Facebook, it usually means you appear

in that person's network and they appear in yours.
Following on Twitter is different because following is If you do fall victim to one of
not mutual. Twitter allows people to opt-in to (or opt-
out of) receiving a person's updates without requiring these app spam attacks, be
a mutual relationship. sure to follow these
Finally, follower violations are one tactic that instructions
spammers often use to abuse Twitter. Monitoring for
abuse is one way to reduce spam on Twitter.
Visit your Facebook privacy settings and click on the
Be Aware of Facebook Link bottom section that says Apps and Websites.

Scams You will see a listing of the most recently accessed

apps from your account, select the offending app
Some of spam super easy to spot. They come in the
and remove it from your account.
form of a wall attack and will lead users to agree to
install an application that requires you to authorize
the app to post on your wall and your friends pages. Delete any messages posted by the app on your
behalf and notify any friends that might have been
spammed.
Be Cautious: Most of these scams will be easy to
spot. They come in the form of comments like: You
have to watch this video! Phrases that are super Also keep an eye out for popular spams and waves
baiting are a sure sign of something fishy. Other of attacks.
times, the spams can replicate promotions or apps
that really do exist. Many spams are now using
familiar names that bait you in. How to Avoid Being Victim
Investigate the settings. Does the app require an
A few things to keep in mind excessive amount of access to your profile? Is the

about these types of spam

app maker not very well known? Best bet is to avoid
it all together. Nothing is worth your safety and
app attacks sanity!

Beware of short links that accompany text on

your wall from people who dont normally post
links.

Investigate or research any app that seems too

good to be true before agreeing to install it.

Pay attention to what apps you authorize to

post to your wall.
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