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Influx of "facebook friends" that I don't know.
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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 315005" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Ok, so you know how with hotmail, gmail, yahoomail etc we get all that spam? Well i have read a bit of how that is leaking over to facebook. So people assemble lists of email addresses in order to spam. They get more money for selling email lists of active and open, functioning email addresses.</p><p>Well now, enter facebook. A whole new way for scams to be pulled on the unsuspecting. You can not only search for friends on facebook via their name and their location, you can also search via email. Any email used to sign up for facebook that is also used on a spam list, can lead them to finding your facebook account and sending a friend request. With the advent of all the facebook apps, we often can add people that we suspect want to play farmtown etc etc with us. BUT, if might be a account looking for future people to spam. </p><p>I handle these by deleting the friend request and dont' think twice about it. If it was someone who really wanted to add me for normal reasons, I'd think if theres a chance I wouldn't recognize the name that they'd send me a private message to identify themselves and why they are hoping to add me. If not? Oh well.</p><p>just hit delete. Where there is a will theres a way, meaning it was only matter of time for facebook to be exploited. Stinks but it is much easier to weed through imposters on facebook thankfully.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 315005, member: 4264"] Ok, so you know how with hotmail, gmail, yahoomail etc we get all that spam? Well i have read a bit of how that is leaking over to facebook. So people assemble lists of email addresses in order to spam. They get more money for selling email lists of active and open, functioning email addresses. Well now, enter facebook. A whole new way for scams to be pulled on the unsuspecting. You can not only search for friends on facebook via their name and their location, you can also search via email. Any email used to sign up for facebook that is also used on a spam list, can lead them to finding your facebook account and sending a friend request. With the advent of all the facebook apps, we often can add people that we suspect want to play farmtown etc etc with us. BUT, if might be a account looking for future people to spam. I handle these by deleting the friend request and dont' think twice about it. If it was someone who really wanted to add me for normal reasons, I'd think if theres a chance I wouldn't recognize the name that they'd send me a private message to identify themselves and why they are hoping to add me. If not? Oh well. just hit delete. Where there is a will theres a way, meaning it was only matter of time for facebook to be exploited. Stinks but it is much easier to weed through imposters on facebook thankfully. [/QUOTE]
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