What is happening?

Someone or a group is creating fake Snapchat, fake 9GAG, fake WhatsApp and other pages with clickbait posts and usually a bit.ly link.

Most of the times the link leads to a webpage that is paying these spammers to get traffic to their site, and if you click it they succeeded in their goal and they get paid.

But if they would just create pages and posts almost nobody would click them. Why would anyone? So they devised a way to get people to notice their posts. That’s why sometimes the link leads to an app approval screen. It looks like this:

If you approve the second screen you essentially give permission to the app to post or like whatever they want. And they use it to auto-like their posts. That way you friends see you liked something and they come to check it out. And they visit the links and some of them install these apps etc… and the spamming continues.

Learn what apps are involved and how to remove them.