About once every three days or so, I get a message via Yahoo! Instant Messenger:
tammy2much4u: Heya, I was looking at yahoo and i noticed your page, anyways, you look interesting.
tammy2much4u: do you wanna see my profile and pictures..?
Now I assume this is a scam of some sort, since, well, my Yahoo! profile/”page” is not, as far as I know, all that interesting looking (nor am I), and I certainly am not soliciting or looking for someone to contact me this way.
I usually just click on “Report as Spam” and go on, but …
… what sort of scam/spam would operate this way?
… or are people so desperate out there that they troll the profiles looking for friendly faces … or lack thereof, in this case?
Just don’t get it.
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I believe if you were to investigate them you’d find they were for pr0n. I get them all the time myself, they’re generated by bots, and the one time I bothered to click the link it ended up redirecting me to a porn site.
Huh. I’m just surprised that enough people would click through on IMs that way. Though, I suppose, the same principles for e-mail spam would apply (*some* people will click *anything*).
I don’t get that with IMs, but I recently signed up for a MySpace account. Within 24 hours, I had three PMs purporting to be from beautiful women who were fascinated by my profile, which profile contains no information beyond a picture which is certainly not going to provoke a response along those lines. I didn’t follow up on any of them, but one of them did explain how “she” was stranded in Florida and that I would never regret it if I sent “her” some money. All three have been reported as spam.