"Spimming" out of control?
 

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003276

"In a cross between spyware and spam, users received an IM from someone on their buddy list with a link and the caption "Osama found." Those who clicked on the link were forwarded to a fake news site, which in turn prompted them to agree to having some "news" software installed on their computer. Unless they carefully read the license agreement for this software (as very few people often do), users would not be aware that if installed, the program would in turn send instant messages to everyone on their buddy list about Osama being found, starting the process over again. Meanwhile, the "news" site would receive a massive number of hits and, presumably, advertising revenues."

woah..

Spam and SpammIN are useless.... surfers are getting immune... :2 cents:

one of my emails gets over 100 messages a day all adverising the exact same shit

spam sucks :(

I hate spammers. :(

its weird though the most IM spam ive ever gotten was from places like media tickets :1orglaugh

"Balling" out of control

your absolutely right

I rarely use messengers anymore and only go to e-mail when I'm expecting something.

wooohooo i made the news! :Graucho

that is such a lame word for it...spim..

one of my yahoo accounts, I checked it yesterday had 1150 junk mails, today I checked it and had over 1200! I didnt check it for about 4 days last week and it had over 7000 in the bulk folder! It's insane! :helpme

i agree, it makes me think of spitting & rimming at the same time, maybe i'm just weird, but I don't think of spam at all. :1orglaugh