![]() ![]() Why has Madras High Court ordered a ban on download of app? Is it fair? What is #TikTok doing about it? has all these answers. It also promised to work on better filtering systems to take down such accounts more quickly. Narang informed TikTok of his findings and the site has apparently taken action against the accounts. Narang also says that these scam accounts are so well made that they regularly pop up in users’ feeds. ![]() These scam sites usually get users to install fake apps that earn scammers money as well.Īccording to Narang, scams involving adult sites earn a lot more money, which is why they’re more popular. Similarly, scam accounts offering free likes and followers extract data from users (username and other personal details) and use that information to steal data like profile photos. Narang, who spent months analysing scammers’ modus operandi on TikTok, reports that these scammers earn money when users click on the links or sign up to these adult-themed sites. Many of these accounts redirect users to premium Snapchat accounts hosting adult content. The posts will usually be accompanied by suggestive hashtags – #18Plus, #18PlusOnly #NSFW, etc. These are age-old scams that have been around since the days of MySpace, Orkut, and the early years of Facebook and Instagram. They also resort to tactics like setting up fake ‘backup’ accounts and fan pages in the name of social media celebs. Scammers steal content from popular Instagrammers and upload them to TikTok accounts that look legitimate at first glance. The most popular method of scamming users involves duplicating the profiles of social media stars. The wildly popular TikTok isn’t free from this hassle and as per a report from a security researcher, scams redirecting users to adult-themed dating sites are scattered all over the platform and rising in popularity.Īs per a report by Tenable’s Satnam Narang, these scams leverage the popularity of celebs and social media stars to redirect users to scam sites that offer adult content and ‘free’ likes and followers. Among the many issues that any growing social media platform has to deal with include scammers and spam.
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