Security researchers report that Valentine's Day is already a target of spam campaigns.

"Researchers at Trend Micro on Monday said they have spotted two spam campaigns -- one promoting a fake gift card promotion, the other counterfeit watches -- in the wild, Maria Alarcon, an anti-spam engineer, said Monday in a blog post," writes SC Magazine's Dan Kaplan. "As Valentine's Day nears, internet users should expect the scams to get more malevolent."

"And if previous holidays and media events are any indication, users also should be on the lookout for poisoned search results, also known as black hat search engine optimization (SEO)," Kaplan writes.

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