It was only a matter of time. I got my first MySpace dating spam in my inbox last week. It follows the usual “not my account, contact me at yahoo” line and entices with promises of a good time. Sorry chinita_mania1987@yahoo.com, I would never date a woman who doesn’t know how to attach a photo to an email. May the spam bots harvest your email address and deliver you v1agr4 ads for ever.
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There’s a ‘spam’ link / flag tool above each myspace email. If you click it, it gets reported to MySpace and the user gets suspended/deleted. So far MySpace isn’t bad like Yahoo/Hotmail. Hope MySPace can continue to keep these nasties away!!
It seems to be that the spammers are making a major push on the dating site front lately. I’ve noticed a huge increase of spammers on Match lately. It’s disconcerting.
I want to understand what the criteria are for suspend/delete criteria are. Identifying what warrants a suspend or delete based on a user’s arbitrary
concerns is a topic I haven’t seen addressed in much depth.
Why suspend someone as opposed to removing their profile? Is that like putting them in the corner saying “stop the
spamming and behave?”
I wonder how many profiles MySpace removes each month due to bad behavior?
Online dating companies deal with spammers, scammers, the obscene and the obnoxious. Abuse teams are in place at the major companies. Their are three levels of defense.
1. automated; detecting spam is fairly easy
2. user flagging; users flag bogus, obscene and obnoxious user profiles
3. abuse teams; react to notifications from 1 & 2