Despite an $873 million award after winning a spam suit a couple weeks ago, Facebook and users on the site are still becoming victims of aggressive spammers. Ingrid Alongi says that she has received two spam emails from separate friends within a couple hours today. A number of other people have been commenting around the web about a rise in spam.
Twitter has been buzzing about Facebook spam. Some individuals are receiving spam emails while others are receiving alternative versions of spam. No matter what incarnation of spam each individual receives, it’s all annoying and frequently malicious. Links end up prompting users to download applications that install viruses on their computers.
Jeremiah Owyang also posted a tweet about receiving a Facebook spam email today. As he mentioned in the tweet, he definitely isn’t alone. Facebook $873 million win against spammers is definitely a bold statement, but as I mentioned at the time, it probably won’t result in much as the spammers are on some far away island. Rather than filing lawsuits it seems like a better strategy would be to build a better spam engine.
Facebook currently has one of the best anti-spam mechanisms in place as they have been able to prevent an outflow of users. This happened previously when MySpace users were inundated with spam messages and friend requests. As Facebook continues to expand globally, the company is going to become a bigger target for spam.
Have you been receiving emails like the one below? Are there other types of spam that you are seeing?
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Have not had a problem like this on Facebook … Yet! However, I cannot be on My Space, there the spam is out of control.submit comment
Comment by Scott — December 4, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
I personally do not receive what i would class as spam HOWEVER
i am an advanced user of an application called FIGHTERS CLUB
this application has no means to communicate to other players from within the application itself thus we use group's & messages from groups & threads (messages which is sent to multiple recipients)
the problem is that facebook clearly do not look at the content of these messages as a majority of people playing fighters club are regularly getting disabled due to the amount of messages they send!!
if the spam team were to use more advanced anti spam that searched the content of these messages RATHER than amount of messages sent within a time frame this situation would not occur.
You only have to look at the sheer number of groups created by players of fighters club petitioning to get account re-instated due to facebook seeing us as spammers!!!
Fighters Club (even though is rather old now) still has the potential to be a VERY sociable application the problem is that many of it's users appear to get punished for being sociable with other fighters club users!
one of my friends was also disabled due to exccessive 'Poking'!!!! this is absurd considering facebook itself encourages people to poke other by way of a panel on your home page!!!
I think that facebook has put far to much concentration on progressing the platform which has inturn led to fundamental issue's being overlooked.
nobody likes spam but nobody wants to get disabled for talking too much to other like minded contacts/friends/users/avatars!
Comment by Thomas Rand — December 5, 2008 @ 4:52 am
All of my facebook messages and e-mails are going into my spam.I cannot seem to unblock it.
Comment by peggy braun — September 17, 2009 @ 5:55 pm