Comments | manic_deadpool: Massive Friend Spam

manic_deadpool

Massive Friend Spam

Mar 20, 2009 09:17

I just got mailed with 3 friend invites, so nrapash, emljvyshvysh and onacpada who are you?

Comments 6

jennyanydots21 March 20 2009, 10:04:14 UTC

Wow, those are so totally real names. Some of them even have vowels in.

briccy March 20 2009, 12:34:13 UTC

Thats my Mum, Dad and younger sister, they obviously like you

tearsofzorro March 20 2009, 13:06:12 UTC

Well, at first glance it would appear that they're those bots that take whatever entries they can get off their flists to produce pages/mails (for spam/phishing/whatever) that don't look like spam. But that's just my take on it anyway.

littlemiscowboy March 21 2009, 05:32:12 UTC

I've had ten of these in recent days. I e-mailed LJ about it & they've sent me a 'what to do e-mail'. Lemme find of and I'll come back and post it. (there's an address where you can flag these spambots to LJ and they can then take action.)

littlemiscowboy March 21 2009, 06:58:48 UTC

Here it is:

Dear LiveJournal user littlemiscowboy,

Thank you for your report. LiveJournal has a semi-automated process for dealing with bots such as this. To report an account, please visit http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml and enter the username in question. Once you have done this, it will be taken care of through our spam reporting system.

Regards,
Cailin
LiveJournal Abuse Prevention Team

manic_deadpool March 21 2009, 14:50:40 UTC

Cool, thanks.