How 'Liking' a page on Facebook makes cash for spammers

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We've all seen those random Facebook links appear in our news stream, which say things like 'click 'like' if you admire war veterans', 'hate cancer' or the old 'see what happens to the cat next'. Many of us will have clicked on them, been a little disappointed when nothing happened, and then moved on.

However, in the process we will have helped the spammers get rich at our expense.
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