Web hosting provider and domain registrar GoDaddy has taken down more than 15,000 subdomains that were being used as part of a spam operation that lured users on web pages selling fake products. Users would typically receive a spam email promoting a product, and if they’d click links in these emails, they’d land on one of these subdomains, hosted on legitimate sites -without the site’s legitimate owner’s knowledge.

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