October 22, 2006

Received my first social network spam, a mail through Bebo’s internal messaging system..

‘hey gareth i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its ‘homepagecam.us/cutie223′ …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…’

Social networks are in one sense eminently spamable (hell in a sense they are spam generators), and in another – permissions, implicit trust networks, reputations, tagging – are highly spam resistant. It will be interesting to see how simple spam, and far more sophisticated potential networked ‘advertacks’ evolve. How long till we see offers of cash for product recommendations or access to FOF lists of popular social networkers..Or is this happening already?

Update: If you arrived here because you also received this message, read this.

90 responses to “Social Network Spam”

jonathan

November 2, 2006 at 2:24 pm

i got this message too!
i got it from ‘candy y’
im from cumbria in the lake district so its not JUST Ireland!
they shouldn’t be able to do this!

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nitesh

November 2, 2006 at 3:18 pm

hi so wat actually happens if u start talking to her, coz i jus happend to come across this website, and the site i looked at on my mates pc wasnt all that bad, whats the down side becaus im abit confused

+ im in south west england 🙂 so it has gotten out

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daniel

November 2, 2006 at 3:55 pm

i thought sherlyn really liked me

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J.c.

November 2, 2006 at 8:15 pm

Lol.

I’m in New Zealand.

I’m VERY wary of links like that, and when I got that link, I went to it, but stopped it and googled it incase. Lucky I did. 🙂

Anyway, I told that person to keep their bullshit.
The name was like, chelsea~.

I’m used to it though. Get a lot of this on MySpace too.

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Tom

November 3, 2006 at 8:34 am

[homepagecam.us/cutie223]–got it aswell stupid pricks cant belive they would do it

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Danny F

November 3, 2006 at 8:59 am

Just gotten dat, thot was right till spelt it wrong, ach weel, shite happens. tsa

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Nigel

November 3, 2006 at 4:17 pm

Hey got this shite just now
Didn’t answer it but what exactly does it do
And does it pose a big threat to my PC

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Nick

November 4, 2006 at 9:42 am

same happened 2 me and i got this site like every1 else when i typed it in google lol. who the hell is it who is doin it out there? and how do they find sum1s bebo adress?

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Steven

November 4, 2006 at 1:13 pm

yip i got it today… hey steven i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/cutie223] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…

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Reece

November 4, 2006 at 1:24 pm

i got da sme fing as evry1 esle wtf is goin on here?!

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conor

November 5, 2006 at 6:29 am

hey i got this 2day

hey conor i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/cutie223] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…

i replied but i dont kno if this will do anything.
thanks 4 da tips.

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Ryan

November 6, 2006 at 2:38 pm

i got tht msg too… im slightly confused y i got it… .bt ach well lol

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Ian

November 8, 2006 at 7:07 am

yup – I just got the same thing. And yeah I thought I was in there too. Shite.

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Mark

November 8, 2006 at 4:28 pm

I’m another pissed off Irishman who got this shit. I delved a little deeper and it transpired they were after my credit card details. FUCK THAT

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gareth

November 8, 2006 at 10:05 pm

wtf
lol
im from new zealand tho
i just gt tht sht to lucky i didnt reply, dam thought i was gonna get laid lol, its name was [Cassara V ] shes not bad tho.

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Greg

November 9, 2006 at 1:54 am

My turn today it seems lads. Didnt reply, just googled it and came across this site. My email is already bombarded with spam crap so didnt want more of it. Going to block her right away.

Aira Y is the new one. [homepagecam.us/candicecam]

AVOID. Oh Im Irish too. Seems to be hitting us the worst.

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Marc

November 9, 2006 at 2:00 am

LOL

hey marc i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/cutie223] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…

im glad i googled it haha

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David

November 10, 2006 at 1:40 pm

Im pissed off! I thought i was in there n all day i was waiting for a reply! Fucking bullshit!

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simon

November 11, 2006 at 3:26 pm

i got the same crap thanks for the heads up

simon(ireland)

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Teddy

November 12, 2006 at 4:50 am

Ya just got that message too and as everyone else i totally thought i was in!! BOLLOX Mine was Shepry L and i got it an hour ago

Imagine now we’ll see a load a these different chicks everywhere we live. Ha then we’ll regret not replyin

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anon

November 12, 2006 at 6:59 am

“OMG ID THIS A FREAK OR WHA WHO IS IT??I GOT IT FROM MY BEBO AND I GOOGLED IT ASWELL THEN THIS CAME UP FUCKING WERIDO!!”

what are you on about sarah? it’s just spam…

first time for me to get one anyway. i don’t know exactly how it was done because i cannot send mail to other bebo users unless they are one of my friends

anyway as soon as bebo restricts mail to only friends this sort of spam will stop. click on the sender’s profile and “report abuse” to let bebo know.

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Will

November 13, 2006 at 12:26 am

Hey, thanks for the warning i got this yesterday. Just thought i’d say the name has been changed to ‘annanet’ now and not that cutie one…Bebo must have done somthing about it =P

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rob

November 13, 2006 at 8:24 am

jesus christ lads… looks like were all gettin laid, happy days! My profile says i’m from… castleballastonesbar, so she’l have to take a few mushrooms and a couple of tabs in order to find my home town seeing as it doesn’t exsist.

In fairness she was v hot, i thought my luck was in untill i looked at the site and realised… i’m not that lucky, somethings wrong here! suppose it shows how gulliable (and horny!) us irish can be.

Its like… “hi, i’m a random hot bitch, seen u’re profile on bebo.. i’m going to vist me cousin’s in knocknamora in a while, so i might as pop round to yours for a ride while i’m there, sound so… see ya later 🙂 ”

In hindsight, how the fuck do we fall for it. And though some won’t admit it…. isn’t it quite dissapointing to find out it’s a hoax, were a sad bunch! apparently the best things in life are free…. we just need your credit card details. load o bollox!

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ray

November 13, 2006 at 9:42 am

hey tanx 4 de heads up, just like de rest of them i taut der was sumtin fishey bout it so i typed it into a search engine and guess wat came up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tanx bud

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noel

November 13, 2006 at 4:45 pm

this is a load of bollix,got in today

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Spikey Guy

November 14, 2006 at 5:25 am

i got dat msg aswel but im not irish n i already have a bird so i dont think i would have gone 4 it (not) i would realy! too bad eh lads!

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Spikey Guy

November 14, 2006 at 5:28 am

Oh n another thing has any body ever thought dat most of them r from ireland n thought dat she might b from ireland as wel?!!

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nigel foley

November 14, 2006 at 6:27 am

guess what dudes they av changed d site an d name again!just like u lot i thought i was n der happy days!den goodled and wat bitterly disappointed but thanks for the look out ya!

Nigel Ireland, November 14th 2006

hey nigel i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/candicecam] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there… =)

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steven

November 14, 2006 at 8:33 am

jst got the same e-mail and thot mmmm tasty girl, but now i relise that its a load of s**t, i hate spam with a passion. wot is this actually about anyways ?

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Philip

November 14, 2006 at 10:02 am

i got the exact same message as you guys did i thought it was gone but obviously not haha shes back andhow could she no were im from i dont even my details up and you cant find them out haha also i know its spam i was just pointing that out no need to point it out to me thans you :D:D:D

phili
xxx

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Sean

November 14, 2006 at 3:26 pm

ye im form Ireland also got the same msg :

“hey sean i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/candicecam] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there… =)”

and as like most of u thought i was gettin some, haha

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keith

November 14, 2006 at 4:43 pm

Got the same thing as you dudes i thought i was getten lucky so replyed right away. Will that cause a virus or what?

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Keenan

November 15, 2006 at 11:26 am

Ah f/ck I’m just one in a long line! I noticed it’s seems like everyone is a lad, and some of us including me thought they were gonna meet a fit girl!-I’m only human. I say we all club together and hunt down these f/ckers. bebo is supposed to be a safe place-[homepagecam.us/cutie223]-your days are numbered!- hand me my glock! I’m angry now but i’m also realising i’m one gullable f/ck!

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Slash

November 16, 2006 at 5:18 am

i got a sililar message two days ago, except that i got one from annanet. i’m from australia. I decided that i was going to hack in to see the persons bebo account, because its a private account, and i’m not very open to spam. Just lucky i don’t sign up to sh*t like that, and i always look for an alternative to entering in credit card details..

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Eddie Tse

November 16, 2006 at 8:47 am

hey eddie i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/candicecam] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there… =)

I went on it and now my computer cant shut down propperly, When i click shut down it just turns off striaght away without saving settings or anything. Then it just restarts and wont turn off, i have to turn it off by the mains. . Then when i turned it back on it has windows had system failure thing. I’m In cornwall, not ireland

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niall

November 16, 2006 at 9:42 am

ye i got that candice cem 1 aswell. pricks!!!!

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Gareth

November 16, 2006 at 11:41 am

i got da sam shes hotand all but nuthin has happen to me PC wtf wb @ jddl11@aol.com

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gregory

November 16, 2006 at 11:53 pm

well thats a sure way to get a head push there dumbass(lol) me to 4 responding i guess hey

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mike

November 19, 2006 at 3:13 pm

i Got this
hey mike i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its [homepagecam.us/candicecam] …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there… =)

i googled it her name was anitrauq7831977

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