Title: Who the f--k are these people?
Black Angel - January 11, 2008 09:22 AM (GMT)
I keep getting these random im's on my yahoo account..
these people arent on my buddylist, and i dont know who they are..
these are the im's i've gotten so far..
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(4:10:38 AM) bennywhitehead287: Hello black_angel :X 『『『.’｛‖［‘‥.（］’｛
(4:10:53 AM) Black Angel: who the hell are you?
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(1/10/2008 3:24:14 PM) bennyrich213: Hello black_angel :) 『『『.…「《｝（‥.（］’｛
(9:51:47 PM) Black Angel: Not to be rude, but who the hell are you?
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have any of you gotten these? I have not gone to the sites, and I am not going to either, but have any of you gotten these im's?
technogeek - January 11, 2008 01:32 PM (GMT)
no...... have u considered switching to aim?
VirusZero - January 11, 2008 04:04 PM (GMT)
Aim isn't much better... they add bots which are quite bothersome... Thats one thing I'm glad about msn/yahoo/gmail, they don't do that. Then there's aol's whole reputation... (aim is owned by aol so why should I expect aim to be run any different from aol? it's a better idea to err on the side of caution and not use aim for any sensitive situations... Just in case stuff happens.)
But Like I told BA, I believe that it could have been an improved spambot... One geared towards randomly generating email addresses and messaging them a preprogramed message or a randomly chosen line of messages.
(The technology is certainly capable of doing this...)
Or it's simply a zombie computer out spamming addresses trying to send out a virus.
technogeek - January 11, 2008 07:04 PM (GMT)
well i use aim and i don't get random ims and the bots don't do anything unless u talk to them
VirusZero - January 11, 2008 09:32 PM (GMT)
Well it's not that aim doesn't have it happen, you just haven't had it happen to you yet.
ThunWind Hog - January 12, 2008 08:58 PM (GMT)
it happened to me a few times on msn. :...:
Dark Mage - January 14, 2008 01:52 PM (GMT)
Nope, has never happened to me at all, guess I'm just lucky.
Blaze the Hedgehog - January 16, 2008 09:45 PM (GMT)
I've gotten spam from one of my friends once. So I told her to change her password.
But I've never had a random spammer IM me before.
BlackCloudX - January 16, 2008 09:55 PM (GMT)
No one ever spamed me when i had MSN
when i first downloaded AIM hell yeah whatever they came from they were annoying and i uninstalled AIM
Blaze the Hedgehog - January 16, 2008 10:13 PM (GMT)
Never used AIM.
AOL was hell enough for me.
I wasn't about to try another one of their products.
VirusZero - January 17, 2008 01:11 AM (GMT)
I severly dislike AIM for the fact that they have bots which try to add you, or add you without your consent... Seems a bit like a dubious mentality there... no options? you have to take it seems something like a hacker might try to slip in to your system without your knowing or consent...
Granted the bots don't do anything unless you talk to them, but still their mere presence could lead to future being spammed by advertisers... or whatnot.
Player911 - June 9, 2008 11:21 PM (GMT)