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Spammers to wreck social networks after emails
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 22:58 IST
Bangalore: After emails now the spammers will soon go after your friends. So be alert when u get a new friend request
You may get a "friend" request from a total stranger. Oftentimes these new "friends" are conspicuously attractive - at least, according to their fake profile pictures. They may or may not engage you in flattering conversation. If you're inclined to friend strangers, you may get a half-dozen or more such new "friends" and they may all be the same person or same company who will hamper you.
Another even more unscrupulous method is to impersonate your real friends. There are two basic ways to do this. First, they may befriend you as a stranger on more than one social network. Then they can see which of your actual friends are "friended" on one network but not the other. In those cases, they can pose as the missing friend. And, of course, you'll accept.
Illegitimate marketer-hackers will come up with other schemes to poison your social graph with shady "marketing." So be careful spamming is coming to the social networks. And they'll do it without your knowledge and without your permission.