Die, Spam bots! Die!!!!

[ht_murray]

I woke up from a very long nap, opened up my email, and had seven, count 'em seven, friend notifications. I suspected from the names that they were spam bots. So, I clicked on the first one, took a good hard look at the profile, particularly the friends, found I had two shared friends. Then, looked in the journal, all of it in Russian or something, and promptly, reported the bot.

Went to the next one. Similar looking userpic, same exact two shared friends as well as entire f-list.

By the fourth one, there was a long sob story on the profile page about how she was a student in Maine, had chronic health issues, including a brain tumor... and yet entire journal in Russian, same matching friends, same unmatching friends.

By the time I worked my way through all seven, there was an eighth in my inbox.

I reported them all. But really, what are they accomplishing? Someone explain to me? Are they just waiting for me to click on their profile and recording that as a hit to their website somewhere? Because it is annoying.

I'm never leaving LJ, but I still do have one Dreamwidth code if anyone else wants it.

Also, prepare for a day of Spam, cuz I done slept through yesterday and have to make up for it. LOL.

ETA: We're up to 9!

Comments

[jane-eyre.livejournal.com]

I had two friend my other journal last week. Thank goodness those are the only ones I've had to deal with so far. Thanks for reminding me that I need to take care of them.

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Yes! Report those buggers. I really don't know if that does any good, but it can't hurt right... unless it pisses 'em off and they redouble their efforts. LOL. But then, it doesn't take much effort to right-click on their userpic and click report bot, so let 'em redouble, I guess.