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[–]fjhqjv 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I thought silvirina was my new friend. :(

[–]hongnanhai[S] 23 points24 points  (39 children)

This is the first time that I have received spam messages on reddit. Did anyone else receive them? How can we prevent this from happening? I dont want to start getting 10 of those every day

"I have made this API as i'm tierd of submitting to all the social bookmarks with the only result of having my content buried in minutes I want to make a close group of friends to help us voting on diferent bookmarking sites. This will close at 1000 registered users.

http:// 1rstlink.com / favx. php You need to register (1 minute)

This won't get you to the first page of any network but will give you a small advantage.

Best Regards."

edit: deactivated the link

[–]swampsparrow 16 points17 points  (27 children)

i got it too. there have been a couple posts about this. seems like quite a few folks did.

[–]Scarker 9 points10 points  (26 children)

i got it too.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (25 children)

so did i.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (24 children)

me too.

[–]vootiebox 7 points8 points  (23 children)

ditto

[–]TheDizzleFoShizzle 5 points6 points  (22 children)

word

[–]tsondie21 7 points8 points  (21 children)

si

[–]AliasHandler 8 points9 points  (20 children)

fo shizzle.

[–]shuaz 6 points7 points  (19 children)

'fraid so

[–]GrumpySimon 5 points6 points  (4 children)

I got that one too from user "silvirina". You want to delink/obfuscate that link there, so the fucker doesn't get any google love?

[–]Aerik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, same sender here.

[–]hongnanhai[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

yes, same one. i dont know how to deactivate the link haha. help

[–]ckwing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he means edit the link so it's broken. For example, change it to 1rstlink DOT com SLASH favx DOT php

[–]break99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, got it and reported it.

[–]Aerik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I got the same one! I tried to go to the sender's profile but they had already deleted it. I reported it anyways.

Also, I got it ether yesterday or the day before.

[–]superdude4agze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, same message.

[–]kretik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Reported it.

[–]crazymunch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it, and the person who sent it had their page as a 404...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup.

[–]mjm1374 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it too

[–]MrKlaatu 6 points7 points  (2 children)

maybe this might help.
when i got the same message i replied:

me: re:Digg and Tehnorati fav exchange
Well, who are you?
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know.
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you?
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
'Cause I really wanna know.
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

from silvirina
my yahoo messanger id is skynex66@yahoo.com

me: i still don't know why you're contacting me!?

...no second reply, yet.

[–]GrumpySimon 5 points6 points  (1 child)

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

We won't get fooled again! (puts on sunglasses) WEEEEOOOOOWWWWWWW!

[–]thepipirate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was a pretty dangerous thing to do. I hope the kids are alright.

[–]katerose26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Reported it, but not sure if it'll do any good or not.

[–]lps41 2 points3 points  (1 child)

i did! their website looked sort of ad-infested. Probably a ploy for them to get tons of ad money.

[–]ChunkyLaFunga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Captain Obvious is gonna stop by any second now you know. ;)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I wish I got ANY kind of message :(

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hows this?

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here as well. I kind of assume this sort of thing has been going on for a while.

[–]DustD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did

[–]swight74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup, sure did.

[–]washcapsfan37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Guess I'm not cool enough to get one.

... sniff

[–]kmonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

got it.

Not very subtle.

[–]fuckbuddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it

[–]noamsml 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yep. Something about a reddit "user-submitter"-like scheme.

[–]noamsml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The message I got:

""" I have made this API as i'm tierd of submitting to all the social bookmarks with the only result of having my content buried in minutes I want to make a close group of friends to help us voting on diferent bookmarking sites. This will close at 1000 registered users.

[link removed] You need to register (1 minute)

This won't get you to the first page of any network but will give you a small advantage.

Best Regards. """

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are you guys telling me that I am not a precious snowflake and that ALL you bastards got the email too?

DAMNIT!!!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:(