Why hello to you too!
sounds like myspace spam. I've gotten things like that and my profile is blank!
I'm betting fake. I both report every one of those fucks as spam and block them. They'll customize the location and shit. Shit. Shit. I like saying "shit."
I'm thinking fake too. The subject line, the spacing of punctuation to new sentences, the laaaaaame IM names, and the fact that he said "Princess" all send red flags to me. Leave him.
You're a cutie. AND it's spam.
By the way -- do you ever use alternative/disposable email addys for any social networking stuff or anything else on the web where you're dealing with a web machine instead of a single person?
I've FINALLY started doing this, myself. It's been great.
Unrelatedish: with regard to other social networking things -- I recently got a message from someone who hadn't actually sent it. The message (with spoofed address) really hugely pissed me off. But things ended well because the piss off made me call her which opened the door to us dealing with some other conversations that had been put off. So... Anyway. Sometimes spam is useful. Ish.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought.
Well, the "Princess" part just kind of skeeved me out, but it didn't seem like it was necessarily spammy.
Phil, I haven't been using totally bogus emails. Maybe I should.
I've had that kind of spam before for realllz, but this just was better faked, I guess.
Related from today's radio news. Some Russian web-thieve have developed an artificial intelligence engine that can do convincing flirty IM chat.
See below.
From The Times
December 13, 2007
Russian flirting robot has crafty chat-up line
Gavin Knight
Those entering dating sites looking for love may risk more than having their hearts stolen. A new robot is capable of flirting with chat-room users to coax personal details out of them. The flirting robot is called “Cyberlover” and comes from Russia. Not since James Bond was ensnared by a KGB honeytrap agent have we seen such an efficient Slavic smooth talker in action.
While some chat-room users agonise over their next one-liner, Cyberlover can establish new relationships with ten partners in 30 minutes — not so much software as soft-spoken-ware. Security experts are concerned at the program’s ability to mimic human behaviour and wheedle out a victim’s date of birth or home address for fraud purposes. It can analyse responses and change its profile from “romantic lover” to “sexual predator”.
Like the robot in the sci-fi film Species, Cyberlover can be deadly in securing potential mates. “If it’s spawned in multiple instances on multiple servers, the number of potential victims could be very substantial,” says Sergei Shevchenko, of the security firm PC Tools. “It employs highly intelligent and customised dialogue to target users of social networking systems.” Currently loitering in Russian chat rooms, it has no doubt set its sights on MySpace and Facebook.
Freaky. I'll let y'all know what if anything happens, because I decided to message him back for kicks.
Even is it isn't spam you're blinded by his beauty only to be all too soon disgusted by his personality. I know you well enough to know that any man who would call you princess wouldn't last a day with our Stew...it's a creepy flag. (I think you know all this, I'm just saying it out loud so you remember it.) Just imagine man with a moustache typing the message instead of senor hottie.
Fakey McFakerson, definitely. I wouldn't respond. xoxo, Ols
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