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"Emma wants to keep up with you on Twitter"

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
[personal profile] unixronin
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 07:45 am

"Join Twitter now for free!  [...] This message was sent by a Twitter user who entered your email address."

Yeah, right.  Who the *%&$%@#@!(&( is Emma? I don't know anyone named Emma.  To the best of my knowledge, nobody named Emma has my email address that didn't harvest it off a mailing list somewhere or other or out of somebody's address book.  And whoever this fictional Emma is, "she" entered the same email address twice.

So now Twitter have become spammers...  great business model, guys.  Let me know how that works out for you.

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[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:10 pm (UTC)
Speaking out of abysmal ignorance here, but is it not possible that the spammer has nothing to do with Twitter? I keep getting requests from people to "friend"* them on Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account . . .

*Or whatever their term is.

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[identity profile] unixronin.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:18 pm (UTC)
Well, the "sign up" links did go to twitter.com, and came from a twitter.com address... it 's not 100% conclusive that it IS a duck, but it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and weighs the same as a witch.

[identity profile] johnkzin.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:37 pm (UTC)
A spammer could, in theory, start using twitter as their delivery mechanism (since, as far as I know, there aren't any anti-spam mechanisms in twitter, yet). In which case, they may start trying to get more people to join twitter and subscribe to them.

That wouldn't be twitter being spammers, just twitter being leveraged by spammers.

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[identity profile] unixronin.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 02:22 pm (UTC)
True. I did find this on a search for 'twitter emma' (http://twitter.com/EmmaEmail), which looks kinda stinky perhaps... but most of the top search results were for Emma Watson allegedly on Twitter.

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[personal profile] hrrunka
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:28 pm (UTC)
Facebook seems to do that periodically, using email addresses stored by Facebook users in their Facebook accounts that it thinks belong to people who've not yet joined Facebook.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:32 pm (UTC)
I've assumed (and Hotmail so sorts them) that a lot of that stuff is phishing.

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[personal profile] hrrunka
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 01:47 pm (UTC)
Quite possibly. My system dumps it in Spam rather than Virus as it does seem to come from Facebook itself rather than some third party. Either way, it's Unwanted™.
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