Google Translate used by spammers to bypass Anti-Spam filters

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Google Translate used by spammers to bypass Anti-Spam filters : on blog.urlvoid.com : http://blog.urlvoid.com/google-translate-used-by-spammers-to-bypass-anti-spam-filters/

Google Translate is a free service created by Google that translates any web page, content or document from native language to a language specified by the user that is using the service. We have noticed that some spam messages contain links to websites that use the service Google Translate to translate their page content, but those links are used to promote fraudulent pharmaceutical products, and they seem to use Google Translate to masquerade the malicious website.

In short, when you translate an URL with Google Translate, it appends the URL of the web page in the HTTP query string, but the initial domain name remains translate.googleusercontent.com, so the anti-spam filters may be bypassed because the URL of Google Translate is classified as legitimate.

To get a better idea about what I am talking about, check this image:
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Never click on links that start with the domain “translate.googleusercontent.com”!
 
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