Wegame = evil spam

[amphigori]

Hey all,

I received an email from an outfit called 'Wegame' advising that a friend wanted to share a picture with me. Trusting this friend, I clicked through the required steps to see what image he'd wanted to share and as a result it's spammed about 474 people I know saying I've invited you to look at a picture.

First of all, accept my most sincere apologies. I should have been smarter.

Second - DELETE THAT EMAIL. IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE.

So so so sorry. I'm getting spammed left and right by confused people. :/ This is so noxious.

Comments

[exiledinpn.livejournal.com]

I routinly ignore such emails anyway. Buw how the hell did it get an address list off you? have they been buying social network data from facebook or something?

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

You sign into your gmail account and it sucks your contact list up in an instant.

Upon realising what was happening, I cancelled my "account" with Wegame, and received a pleasant confirmation that "all pending invitations would be withdrawn."

Lies.

I feel like a dork.

[exiledinpn.livejournal.com]

You sign into your gmail account and it sucks your contact list up in an instant.

Rule one: never, ever, do that. Only spammers ask you to (and yes, that includes Facebook).

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I KNOW :(

Today has been about the most rotten day ever and I was just in a fog of awful and not even thinking.

Just plodding along like a good little obedient spam serving drone.

SUCK. :(

[meesto.livejournal.com]

Not to worry. Thanks for the notice on your LJ! That is a particularly nasty sounding phishing site! Delete, delete!

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

Urgh, it's gone to about 500 people.

Hopefully most of the recipients are more web-savvy than I am. I just got caught in a moment of stupid.

[pombagira.livejournal.com]

ohh.. i got an email like that from a different friend, which was from them, i was a bit dubious about it.. so left it.. but have now deleated it..

thank you for the heads up

*smiles*

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

Grrrr spam. Grrrr me for falling stupid at the wrong time.

[beagl.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't beat yourself up too much, at least you didn't transfer your life savings to a Nigerian scam-artist!

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

Yeah... at least.

On the plus side, it's prompted me to change my passwords all over the place which I'd been meaning to do for a while.

[rivet.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip! I got one from a different friend.

[bezajel.livejournal.com]

I had this email from you and from another person who I don't really know but who would have my address.. I was suspicious so first I went to the site to see what it said, and it looked legit-ish, like, perhaps it was the new popular things onthe internet and for some reason you wanted to chare a funny pic with me! But when it told me to sign up to see the picture I went OHHHH no, I don't think so.

SO hopefully just clicking on the link and not signing up hasn't sent spam to everyone I know!

Thanks for posting about it, though.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I went to the site, created an account, and then refused to enter my gmail password as I never do that for any service.

It was very persistent, and I had to effectively "hack it" by manually navigating back to the home page to see the supposed picture without giving it my password.

[beaugirl.livejournal.com]

My gmail account actually caught it and put it in my spam folder :-) Thanks for confirming what gmail and I suspected! Also, I hope you are feeling better!

[bekitty.livejournal.com]

Mine too. Although mine was from someone I'd never heard of.

[drowninghail.livejournal.com]

Yeah I deleted it right away - not that I wouldn't like to get a picture from you :-) but never when there's a third party involved asking you to sign up for anything.

[lamprey.livejournal.com]

Deleted.

[sproke-ina-can.livejournal.com]

It's okay. for me it didn't do any harm - I have a good security