It seems like almost all the spammers I encounter on Facebook, seem to have a standard operating procedure, which makes me believe that they have a checklist like this:
Checklist of a Facebook spammer
- Send friendship requests to unsuspecting Facebook users, who might be remotely interested in the product/website you are spamming for.
- If accepted, send friendship requests to all the friends of the victim you have just added.
- Build a Facebook Group.
- Add all the people you have recently added, to that Facebook Group.
- Spam away and count the money, till Facebook shuts you down or people stop clicking, in which case, just create another id!
This always makes me wonder, why does Facebook allows people to add others to group, without first seeking the approval of those who are about to be added to the group?
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Oh.. Haven’t come across such a thing yet. Could also be because I have stopped accepting friend requests from people with whom I haven’t interacted before in anyway.
Problem for me is, I usually have a lot of BCMTians sending me friends request, so I end up accepting almost all of them, not knowing whether someone is actually a BCMT member or a random spammer.
Well that’s the usual experience of a celebrity… LOL
Well a simple way can be adopted in which one can check the photos of the person and if you think its real deal accept the request because according to me most of the spammers dont use personal photos and mostly use some type of celeb pic!
P.S. even i have sent you a request after seeing this lets see if you think me as a spammer or a real BCMTian!
hehe approved you 😀