Community Invite Spam
27 July 2009
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Val,
I have the exact same complaint as you about the social networking site Ning. I left a slew of Ning groups as I got tired of being spammed about joining this or that group over there by fellow members of those groups.
I reset my NING notification and email settings but yet….the spam emails continued.
I’m pretty sure that they have harvested a lot of the emails and that is why the spam keeps happening even after leaving the groups. PLUS, they can send it to their contact list.
I know for me, I’ve gotten a ton of invites from a certain Ruth A…. won’t give her the satisfaction of putting her full name on here. But she’s a known spammer on the yahoo groups and she moved on to the Ning communities as well.
What in the world do people hope to accomplish by spamming everyone with these invites? What is the outcome you wish to achieve? Do they honestly think that this will make them money?