Category: Spam

Come on Twitter add Tweet filters — Ways to prevent twitter spam!

Paul

So I am on twitter tonight and I find some common themes:

  • [intlink id=”3493″ type=”post”]Have you ever heard about paid surveys ? I’m making way over $4000 per month working part time .www.hothotjoboffers.com [Keyword][/intlink]

  • Visit www.nakedoncam.info for 100% FREE LIVE CAM GIRLS! #Lobster Jeremy Mayfield Wolverine #startrek Happy Mothers Day

[ad]As you can see this is starting to get bad.   I don’t know why Twitter can’t fix this, by making filter rule that prevent new users from posting the same thing others have or even putting in some Captcha’s and Email verification.  This would stop it really quickly but I am sure I would hear from people that these wouldn’t stop them from coming.  Yes that is true but it would stop some to a lot of them from posting.   They want people to come to there site and they are abusing the Twitter.

On any given day you can search for anything with twitter and come up with some valuable information.  Now this seems to be more and more spam.   There needs to be a way for twitter to stop this but I guess they dont’ want to ruin the experience for new users.

As a long time user of Twitter, I would like to keep using it but since Oprah came to twitter it seems [intlink id=”3344″ type=”post”]Oprah[/intlink] has brought some media attention to our little universe and that in turn has brought the spam people.

Twitter needs to get it’s act together and come up with a way to fix some of these types of spam before it becomes to hard to use twitter.  This also causes load issues with bandwidth and other such problems when Twitter is abused you see the result.   So I hope people retweet this post and tell people to look at this and then tell Twitter to Fix this problem.   The more that tweets to fix this problem the more they will listen.

Hothotjoboffers equals Twiitter Spam

Paul

Saw this on the Twitscoop API and had to talk about it:
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If you go to the site Hothotjoboffers.com you will be redirected to:

hothotjoboffersspam2 www.makemoneytakingsurveys.org

Now I know more about this then anyone.  I see these types of scams where you can make money by doing survey’s but there are some common princples to consider.  Although I have real doubts to this site because when you try to exist it displays:

hothotjoboffersspam3

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I always wonder why spam and other sites alike try to persuade you to stay and look.  When that happens I am thinking to myself, “Yes I am sure and that little box really makes me mad”.   I assume someone bot is making the post to twitter and I wish Twitter would create a rule for this.   This would stop this type of spam from getting to us and others.   Same Text coming from newly created accounts less than a hour with let’s give it 5 max should be prevented from posting until they are verified by either email or other such ways.

I don’t know if you can truely get paid for doing surveys but I know if I did want to I would look for sites that are free and not ones where you have to pay to find good surveys.   This just sounds like a waste of money and time.

Dear Friend Spam Emails from Yahoo

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The email from our[intlink id=”3233″ type=”post”] old friend has come back[/intlink] into now compromising Yahoo accounts by sending out this email:

Dear friend:
What are u doing these days?I am going to recommend a Eshop to you.Yesterday I found a web of a large trading company from China,which is an agent of all the well-known digital product factories,and facing to both wholesalers, retailsalers,and personal customer all over the world. They export all kinds of digital products and offer really competitive and reasonable price and high quality goods for their clients,so i think you will make a big profit if you did business with them.And they promise they will provide the best after-sales-service.If you are interested to do business with them,in my opinion, you can make a trial order to test that.
Their Web address: www.nekcn.com

In what seems to be the way of this advertisment company, it seems they have been doing what they did with Hotmail.  Deleting your contact list and emailing your friends with this message.  Now I am thinking it is being done by them [intlink id=”2660″ type=”post”]Phishing for the password and Account name[/intlink], they probably set up an web page to look like Hotmail or Yahoo.  One thing to remember to do is check to see that you address bar looks like this:

yahoomailloginYou should make sure you see the “https”, meaning that is a encrypted login and also make sure you see either Mail.yahoo.com or Login.yahoo.com.  If you see anything else included in your the screen like maybe a .ru or .pl then you aren’t logining into the true yahoo account.  Obviously the website shouldn’t be trusted until they advertise the right way, and find ways to advertise online other than spam.  If you get an email saying you need to do something with your Hotmail account or yahoo mail account you should not click any links and go to the site manually to investigate the problem.  You should never click links in email that you don’t know where they are going.  Thanks to Jazzcorner for Alerting me that they have started to do this with yahoo.  I am betting the next one will be for Google Mail, or Gmail as some will call it. It wouldn’t hurt to have a [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]firewall and Anti-virus[/intlink] and also check your system out just to be sure.