Got My First Facebook Spam Email Today
December 28, 2007 · Print This Article
Well I guess it was bound to happen to me and today it finally did. I checked my email this morning and found I had a new Facebook message. Here it is :
Shellie sent you a message.
Subject: hey, cool name. i’m Shellie
“hi there Jimmy, how’s it going? i wanted to chat with you, but they don’t have that here, whatever. if you’d like to, you can check out my other profile at http://snipurl.com/1sjvz my username’s spicygrl. just don’t mind my pics lol. umma anyway, hope to talk to you soon!”
The snipurl takes you to a site called Friend Jungle. I can only imagine what type of jungle it may be.
Needless to say, I have not been a huge fan of Facebook for a variety of reasons, but now I am even less so. This is the kind of crap I got on MySpace. Now that it has followed me to Facebook, I think we have crested the peak, so to speak. Facebook may be on the downturn of their 15 minute of fame. A lot of us went there to use it as a networking tool and establish professional relationships. This type of spam does not do a lot to help us meet our goals and expectations.
Just yesterday I receieved an almost identical email.
“hi Joe, i like you pic, you seem alright. maybe we can chat or something. i don’t thing you can here, but you can check out my other profile at http://snipurl.com/1ska5 my username’s spicygrl. Soooo, ya, see you i hope”
The spelling errors were in the origional message.
The link here did not even work and snipurl said it was spam. I’ve never been a big advocate of facebook but it could survive if they had the moderators some of the good forums have.