Another a fun thing they do: when user agent is Twitterbot, the request is bounced to google plus (for the URL displayed in embed), otherwise requests go directly to the scam site.
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Ahhh that makes sense! I figured they were using some URL redirect page on Google+. That is a solid trick. Probably hard for Twitter to address since URL shorteners are used so heavily
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Indeed! They are trying to avoid detection with image changes and multiple URL shortener bounces plus false content, but we see no evidence Twitter is even attempting to detect them in the first place?
https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1002364129703706625 …
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