# What exactly do these live stream spam links lead one to?

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**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004 "2016-09-27T00:28:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/1 "2016-09-27T00:28:36Z")

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I’ve never clicked on any of the obvious spam links, but what if I did?

What’s lurking back there, 'cause I’m pretty sure it’s not “Baltimore vs. Blue Jays” for example.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/2 "2016-09-27T00:33:32Z")

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I don’t know for sure but occasionally I have gone looking for live broadcasts of sporting events (cycling in my case) and found (usually Russian) websites that claim to have a broadcast but require you to download some form of viewer to watch. Yeah, like I’m downloading and running an executable from a dodgy website…

So that could be it.

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/3 "2016-09-27T00:58:38Z")

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There’s quite a few streaming sites that show pretty much every sporting event live that aren’t completely riddled with malware. Some of them even have advertising from respectable (in the UK and Ireland anyway) betting sites.

The ones promoted on here by spammers, eh, not so much with the malware-free. Don’t click.

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/4 "2016-09-27T13:44:30Z")

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No idea, but I like to imagine it’s something like this:

[Live Stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPgv7oUNwM&t=10)

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**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/5 "2016-09-27T14:22:27Z")

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Sometimes the mish-mash of words in the title makes me very curious about the OP (I guess that’s the whole point), and then I’m disappointed when it’s just a spam link.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-do-these-live-stream-spam-links-lead-one-to/767004/6 "2016-09-27T18:18:32Z")

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No one knows. The only people who clicked on them have never been seen again.