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A (You)Tube for Spam
rogelsview.com — This is new, and annoying, phenomena. Youtube is being used to send spam messages, that bypass the anti-spam messages.
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- LastDinosaur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+79I've begun getting this crap constantly. Now no matter where I run I can never escape the crushing reality of my tiny penis and my eternal desire to enlarge it with homeopathic pharmaceuticals and stretching regimen!
- MtnXfreerider, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1site down :/
- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29http://www.duggmirror.com/tech_news/A_You_Tube_for_Spam
I'm abusing the reply system, yes; but the closer the mirror is to the top, the better. - city17, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11the following sites constantly spam youtube and just about every other social sites and make millions off of it (i know someone who works there):
www.ittakes2.com
www.place4fiends.com
www.friendorama.com
(all owned by the same company, go figure) - evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yeah. I've been getting a lot and it's pissing me off.
- VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah. its bad on my account. i've got more than 30 messages a day
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I was about to comment, but LastDinosaur just blew my mind :D
- AndreGerber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Well, I keep on getting messages about Brazilian girls who want to either have sex with me or about me wanting to have sex with them.
I just block every user that sends me those things.- jasper976, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16me too, i just thought i was hot *****, damn it
- Tandaemonium, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Same here! Those are exactly the ones I'm getting.
That and effing Friendorama. - gubatron2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Same over here, a lot of Brazilian Amateur Video spam coming my way every day.
They need to implement a block user, or mark as spam functionality. - doinkies, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I get these Brazilian porn spams too...hopefully YouTube will put up a spamblocker soon...
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Just block youtube's emails. Solved.
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9what if you want messages from your friends. Aparently you don't have any.
- Dallas70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4 Justin6512,
Put your friends e-mail on a whitelist so their messages get through to you. - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0plus sometimes people send you private messages about your videos. The messages are there for a reason. People use them
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1crawfishsoal
hey dude, sorry saying you didn't have any friends. I kinda feel like a dick for saying that!
Digg on brother!
- 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Some guy in Nigeria wants to give me $1,000,000 and all I have to do is give him my bank account number...
- bram, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13My friend did it and he got his check from Bill Gates in 3 to 5 business days.
- gubatron2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!
Lol... I hope you're joking.
This show on abc actually did an investigation of this scam, which is one of the oldest of the internet, its sick, that people over there live on $1 a day or less. They make 5k out of your account and they're rich.
- an7agonist, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Just ignore this comment ^^
- barrettg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Direct link To image:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=321311211&size=o- whiskeyclone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I know it's not all that important (other than to make the severity of the problem look worse) but did anyone else spot that the image on the flickr account is 'fake'?
Check out the pixel arrangements around the bottom two dates - they are identical to the onces around the top two - clearly a copy/paste job done there. No I'm not a nut-job - go look at it for yourself. (edit: also, the bottom subject line looks cloned from the second one down)
Ethically, its similar to the thing that Reuters did with plumes of smoke photoshop a month or two ago - albeit on a much smaller scale. Still 'enhancing' images to make a problem look worse than it actually is, just isn't good journalism, and hinders the integrity of the writer, which could have the opposite effects than they intended.
YouTube spam is a problem, and something that needs to be looked at - but there was no need for the writer to go changing the dates on the inbox to make it look like they commonly get 5 messages a day - when in fact on the 12th they got 3 - and present that as fact.
And if you are going to fake it, at least have the sense to do it well...
- whiskeyclone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I know it's not all that important (other than to make the severity of the problem look worse) but did anyone else spot that the image on the flickr account is 'fake'?
- KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1block the user after the first spam message you receive from them
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7They spam from different accounts.
- KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0they do but you get 6/7 messages from the same user... so block them the first time they send it so they cant send anymore ever again
- JoeBaynham, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I've already had like 10 messages about how to get "hot sex"
- iDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Some chick thinks that one of my videos is "pretty cool", and wants to "know more". Then she gives an address that redirects to a crappy "find friends" website.
Cyber-bit*h ! - MarkCiccone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I've been getting these things for days now, they're so annoying and Gmail keeps notifying me of them.
http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard01kl1.jpg- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hmm...i got the exact same set of four messages...this could potentially turn out to be annoying as hell...
- cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yep, I got the exact same messages over the past few days. Hopefully this means that this is still fledging spam and will be squashed.
- digitizit, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I'm glad to know it's not just me. I logged into my YouTube account the other day and knew something wasn't right. This is an actual screen shot of my YouTube account.
http://www.chrisdotson.com/uploaded_images/youtube.jpg
When I go to my inbox, I don't see that number of messages, but I do see spam. When I try to delete the spam, it refuses and just stays there. - Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2HOT SEX SITE is the one I keep getting like a lot now.
- brasso, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Looks like the tubes is clogged...
- AndreGerber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I really think these spammers think our minds are between our legs. As if sex is the only thing we thing about, so they can target us through that. How silly.
- Dallas70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sex is what makes them the most money and the cheapest to advertise, if they get a .001% response rate they're dancing in the streets.
In other words, they'll spam 10 million users and because 100 people are stupid the rest of us are subjected to this garbage.
- Dallas70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sex is what makes them the most money and the cheapest to advertise, if they get a .001% response rate they're dancing in the streets.
- JanusAmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, I keep getting HOT SEX SITE and HOT BRAZILLIAN GIRLS. It's really starting to piss me off, the wankers...
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I would buy a tube of Spam. Delici.o.us for sandwiches.
- korimickster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4del.icio.us
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2deli.c.ious
- ss0007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3seems like Wordpress haven't waked up from recent digg effects ...
They are still down by this one too .... - VTmruhlin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4my bugmenot login doesn't get spammed at all.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use Bugmenot for Youtube, as well.
Why is VTmruhlin getting dugg down? It works, people.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use Bugmenot for Youtube, as well.
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5YouTube should have a REPORT THIS ACCOUNT. That would work for both the PM spams, and the viral video crap from SONY, Wendys, and many other sources.
- upsidedork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As irritating as the Wendy's and Sony crap is, they are legitimate users. They don't spam. If you don't like the ads, just don't watch them -- they're not going out and harassing you.
It is useful to have those ads on YouTube, from a cultural analysis perspective, because they make it much easier to complain about the companies. (Or, maybe someday, praise them.) I wish more companies put their ads online. Maybe it would be more user-friendly if YouTube had a separate, dedicated category just for commercials.
- upsidedork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As irritating as the Wendy's and Sony crap is, they are legitimate users. They don't spam. If you don't like the ads, just don't watch them -- they're not going out and harassing you.
- RogelSM, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The most frustrating issue is that YouTube don't do anything to solve it, and it should be too complected!
- gregdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It really should be, you're right. Wait... what?
- WUThad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I got 3 emails in a row yesterday, all from different usernames...but they were all 30 year old dudes from Afghanistan...that seemed to like the Brazilian Ladies.
I blocked all of the different users, but who knows how many accounts they create before Youtube stops them. - infowar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2So much spam on youtube now. I already got 3 spam mails.
- davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Buried as SPAM! ;)
- carnytrash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I've had about 30 or 40 of these- NAO PERCAM, AMATEUR BRAZILIAN GIRLS, HOT SEX SITE.
It's seems to be getting worse. YouTube needs a "report spam" button in the received messages window.- Sabot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They just keep rolling in for me too. Youtube should not allow more than one person per message as an address.
- upsidedork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It would be nice if YouTube had an option to check that said, "Only users whom I have added as friends can send me messages." You wouldn't be able to get messages from strangers, but some people (like me) prefer it that way.
Or maybe a limit -- users can only send 30 messages in an hour, for example. Enough that a normal user wouldn't notice, but a spammer would find it impractical.
A CAPTCHA might help, too. And a "Flag this account" button. I wonder why they don't already have those features.- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2+ 11ty billion
Youtube should know better.
Should allow for "only mail from friends"
and "NO messages at all"
I just want to post a video now and then, not get 10 emails day about hot brazilians.
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2+ 11ty billion
- Onwlyix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm getting the same crap. Youtube, make it stop! >_
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Youtube just has to add a "mark this as spam" icon next to each comment and then the comment gets submittied to youtube for final review.
- geoplaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There's a video on YouTube about the Spam on YouTube that makes fun of the Spam on YouTube but isn't YouTube Spam itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvkLHaOoRQ
Did I just write that like an SEO would? :P - alrahman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I got a couple aswell. About time Youtube setup a captcha system.
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Youtube is being used to send spam messages, that bypass the anti-spam messages."
NEWSFLASH: Some evil Digg submitters are surreptitiously transmitting commas in, the middle of sentences! - tommertron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did anyone else notice that the linked blog post was almost completely unintelligible?
- mrmatchgame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I get the same things,
Hot Sluts
Big ASS, Big Tit Women
House wives wanting sex
Etc.
I got 15!!! 15 this week alone and its only Thursday.
WTF!!!!
Spammers should die suffocating from their own spam!!! - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1does anyne know the phone number(s) for these spam companies? Digg revenge!
- sofia60uz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hey! I am new to this zone can someone tell me whats happening here!!!!!!
- Stephanie0jh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I usually get spamming messages, but i ignore by thinking that all these are marketing stunts. in some manner companies buy banners and some buy e-mail services to get the user attention, tell me what u say........
- sherifff, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0Spam "Invite Your Friends"
http://fraud-mail.land.ru/article/spam/6/
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