Spam on Orkut
Sigh. What do you do when you get spam like this through Orkut? I have preserved the formatting.
Hi ...Orkut is deleting Profiles again
message: Dear user because of
sudden rush of people signing upto orkut is come to an attention
that we
are vastly running our of resources so with in a week any one who
does not receive this scrap will be deleted of our server . We know
that you are still using this account We want to find out which
users
are actually using their orkut accounts so if you are using your
then please send this scrap to every orkut user that you can if u do
not pass this scrap to anyone then we will delete your account
Just
follow these simple steps. 1. Click on the "Messages Tab" in your
account. 2. Click on the "compose mail" option which is the last one
of
the four icons you see together. 3. Select "all friends" 4. Cut and
Paste this mail.
And this...
HEY ITS DIANNA, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ORKUT,EVERYBODY SORRY FOR THE
INTERRUPTION BUT ORKUT IS CLOSING THE SYSTEM DOWN BECAUSE TOO MANY
BOTTERS ARE TAKING UP ALL THE NAMES, WE ONLY HAVE 57 NAMES LEFT, IF YOU
WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT, DONT SEND THIS MESSAGE, IF YOU WANT
TO
KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT ,SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST. THIS IS
NOT A JOKE, YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU DONT SEND IT. THANKS DIRECTOR OF
ORKUT, TIM BUISKI. WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL
BE
DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST YOU $ 10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT
C'mon people, do you think a company which gives you almost 3GB of space for free will suddenly run out of resources?! Sheesh, grow up. But then that's the problem. The people who send such mails won't ever read my blog, and those who read my blog (hopefully) won't ever send such mails.
14 comments:
Thanks for the information.
i started getting the same messages.. poor friends on orkut. Even those computer and net savvy ones could not recognize that these are spam/fake.
Thanks for the information..
Yup my friends got this one too...Just googled it..Thnx for documenting it :)
I was getting this message since more then last 7 days. thanks somene put this on the blog, I was finding it really hard to make them explain that this are all hoax.
me too googled it..
now i'll recommend everyone to read this blog
Hey Thanks Buddy...I totally agree with you. All this is Bull Shit. Similar messages used to come for Yahoo too. Some people simply doesnt have any work to do and so they send these kind of SPAM just to have sone fun. We should all ignore it.
THANK YOU!!!
Finally some one noticed. Its about time people woke up said NO to spam.
I get annoyed when people fwd me such messages, because I usually delete them and the send scathing mails to the sender. That's one way to lose spam (and friends - alas!!)
@all
Thanks for your comments. Ya the best way to deal with such spam is to reply the sender with a hard-worded mail. But what happens is that the sender is usually a friend or so. And he or she starts complaining, 'cmon I sent u a mail for ur information' and stuff like that. So I generally ignore such mails and don't even waste time in replying. All chain mails stop in my account.
hey nice one,
Yea the best way is to make ppl understand abt these messages......
there is one more thing orkut has to take care abt
ill be blogging abt that... and abt these spam messages too... got the idea from ur blog...
Thnx....
Thanx!
Ya dude ..
me also was wonderin y people r sendin me dis junk with out evn realizin wat it is..........
I just made liiiiiitle change in the msg body and passed it on... ;)
HEY ITS DIANNA, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ORKUT,EVERYBODY SORRY FOR THEINTERRUPTION BUT ORKUT IS CLOSING THE SYSTEM DOWN... ohhh really...
DIRECTOR OF ORKUT, TIM BUISKI. WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILLBEDEACTIVATED... ano so on bullshit...
I'm openly throwing a challenge to Ms. Dianna and Mr. Buiski... Please please please try cleaning up the system by removing me first, if you at all exist and if you have proper rights...
Folks, pass this msg to make people aware... and avoid spamming...
do this folks... let others know... Not everybody tries to dig up the truth...
Unfortunately, you support spam on Orkut as well! Blogadda.com, who's link is on your blog has a fake profile on Orkut trying to seduce guys into joining. Just do a search for "Angel Mehra" and read the back pages on her scrapbook. Nullpointer has a post on it as well. Very sad how Indian companies are resorting to such cheap tactics and messing up orkut.
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