Meeting Friends Online in Friendster is Cool But Spams Are Not
Meeting friends online through social networks like Friendster, Myspace and Facebook is truly cool. In fact, I frequent my Friendster account every now and then but I don’t stay long. Recently, my login time is 5 minutes max just to check who viewed my profile and sent me messages through its messaging system.
This morning, I was again shocked to find out that another spam is lurking in Friendster accounts – video spams. Video spamming is the new way of spammers to get into your account via sending you a comment. If your comment is not moderated in Friendster and you have allowed everyone to post a comment in your account, then you’re in for a big surprise. The sender/s look like legit account holders (with some sexy pictures in their profiles) but mind you, the profiles are all set to PRIVATE and you can’t do anything to notify the sender. This means that they are bots. These are not humans. They are auto-generated codes designed to promote videos of sexy women dancing (or doing other things) right in your profile’s comment section which is supposed to be for your friends only.
So beware of this video spamming by social network spammers. They truly are too good to be true. Don’t be fooled. Report the spammer to the Friendster admin to remove the account and block the sender from ever receiving anything from that account again to avoid that bot from sending you another video spam.
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Tags: Anti-spam, Friendster, personal, social network
ay makainis talaga yang mga spammers kuya..
lalo na yong papadalhan ikaw pgkadami daming comments..
dati eh open ang comment system ko ngayon eh yong mga friends ko na lang ang pwede mgcomment..
di na nga din ako basta basta accept ng friend request eh kung di ko talaga kilala..
I love friendster keysa myspace kasi andun mga highschool and college batchmates ko..pero simula ng maaddict ako sa blogging eh madalang na ako mg stay dun.
hehehehe…
p.s. kuya baka mgpinsan tayo? pareho tayo matangos ang ilong at good looking eh.. naks! hahahaha
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jessie reply on June 12th, 2008:
Twinks,
Oo nga kaya mag-ingat sa mga spammers. Kahit sa mga blogs maraming spammers.
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I haven’t been opening my account at Friendster. I only check it if there are new messages, comments, etc alerteing me in my Yahoomail. Na-open ko lang yon recently kasi nag-alert ang Friendster malapit na raw ang bertdey ng isa kong kaibigan, JESSIE P. SIMBULAN ang pangalan.
Kainan na naman, bwahahahahahahahaha!
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Ellaine,
May daya yang Friendster bday alert na yan. Babaguhin ko na ang birthday ko next time. Hahahaha!
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hay, friendster! ang daming gustong makipag relasyon dyan sa friendster na yan. kung wala akong asawa, siguro para na akong seaman, a girl in every port, ahahaha. hindi ba nila mabasang married ako, MARRIED! pero oks lang kasi yung iba pinapasa ko sa mga friends ko, hahahha feeling ko dating service yung aking friendster esp since yang mga lintek na spammers na yan na kung ano anong pictures ang pinapadala!
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Kengkay,
Dyan ako naiinis – sa mga spammers sa Friendster. Grabeh kahit mga adult videos padadalhan ka nila mai-promote lang nila ang mga sites nila sa profile mo. Kaya ako ngayon select individuals na lang ang pwedeng mag-comment sa profile ko.
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