A note to the Russians

Oct 15, 2011 14:04

If you are one of the two or three or four Russians who have lately friended my journal though we appear to have no interests or friends in common, would you mind commenting here or sending me a private message explaining why ( Read more... )

livejournal, lj, internet, russians, i am not smart, mystery

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thomasyan October 16 2011, 01:09:57 UTC
When that sort of thing happens to me, it is spambots and such ilk :(

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ritaxis October 16 2011, 02:33:50 UTC
That's what I thought, but they don't seem to be spamming me.

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ice_hesitant October 16 2011, 18:25:48 UTC
No, but they may be posting spam in their journals or elsewhere, but friending you lends them legitimacy and makes them harder to detect by naive anti-spam tools.

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kip_w October 16 2011, 04:06:57 UTC
Can't I block them? Reject their mecha-friendship?

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bohemiancoast October 16 2011, 10:02:48 UTC
My tentative guess is that they are friending a lot of people (using multiple personas), and hoping that they'll be friended back by people whose personal information they can then suck. They're after Russians, not you.

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