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TikTok Teen Porn Problem Exposed As Snapchat Sex Scammers Target Billion User App

Posted on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 By Davey Winder

The growth of social video-sharing site TikTok has been nothing short of remarkable, but now the porn peddlers have arrived

TikTok, the social media short-form video creation and sharing app with more than a billion monthly active users, is usually to be found at the top of the Apple App Store downloads page. The incredible popularity of an app which was only launched in 2017 has not escaped the attention of scammers though. A new report by Satnam Narang, a senior research engineer at Tenable, reveals just how low the pornography peddling crooks will go to gain likes and drive unsuspecting TikTok users to their websites.

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