Has Anyone Noticed
 

Hey Icq users, have you noticed about a 500% increase in Icq message spam lately? 2 months ago I never got any, I currently get about 15 to 20 a day now.... All the same shit like

"hi my name is sarah, how are you? blah blah my website"

or

"check out my xxx website"

some bots it seems, even add you to there contact list, like wtf?


anyone else? its starting to really get to me, I fucking hate turning icq on now!

I got one today..

I replied in all caps with:

Don't ever fucking spam me again.
You're ip has been logged & I will personally take the time to report to every single sponsor on your site that you are spamming. In addition to this, I will notify ICQ , & your isp that you are a spammer.. I forwarded this spam to http://spamcop.net..

Have a nice fucking day!

Yes. It's pretty ridiculous.

Im getting a lot of spam now!

I left for the whole day and left my icq on. When I came back I had like 12 messages :feels-hot

How the fuck do you stop it?

I don't get any?

Stay on invisible and you never get any. I have my icq on 24/7 invis and never get spammed.

You can set your privacy controls to only allow messages from people on your friends list, that helps knock down the amount of crap.. I really like the ones that pretend to be someone... You answer back and they give you a generic response.
I wonder what the longest conversation anyone has had with a bot on ICQ is?

my roomate chats it up all the time, i dont see the point, but it amuses his small brain haha

Yeah, they're pissing me off too. I get tons of them. For a while, I thought some hot chick just really wanted to talk to me :(

Well, this isn't that convenient, since I get some messages from webmasters looking to set up traffic trades and such.. and I might not add them before they msg me.

That's cuz of the release of a new ICQ spam program being distributed in hack groups. Apparently, it fixed a blocking technique. Pretty sad.... no wonder less and less people are using ICQ.

Invisible is the way to go, I never get any spam. Oh also I get some work done sometimes because of it.

that's not the exact reply you gave me, but close ;)))

yeah, ICQ spam sucks cuz it covnerts worse than chatroom and buddy list spam...

;))))))

It's not spam. They even said so. It's valuable services they thought you would be interested in.

I get shit like that in my email everyday, it's fucking annoying.

I have my preferences and security settings in ICQ set so that no one can put me on their contact list without requesting it first, and I routinely reject such requests unless they give me a reason along with their request. Most people with real business intentions will not "Interested in your content" or something like that in their request.