iREEADD THIS spam hits Orkut

Orkut SpamThese days, spammers are everywhere. The latest spam to hit Orkut is the “iREEADD THIS” spam. I got this message from 5 of my Orkut friends. This clearly shows how easy it is to mislead people! Here is what the mail contains,

HEY ITS DIANNA, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ORKUT,EVERYBODY SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION BUT ORKUT IS CLOSING THE SYSTEM DOWN BECAUSE TOO MANY BOTTERS ARE TAKING UP ALL THE NAMES, WE ONLY HAVE 57 NAMES LEFT, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT, DONT SEND THIS MESSAGE, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT ,SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST. THIS IS NOT A JOKE, YOU’LL BE SORRY IF YOU DONT SEND IT. THANKS DIRECTOR OF ORKUT, TIM BUISKI. WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST YOU $ 10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT.

As you can see it looks incredibly obvious that it is a spam(Upper case, full of grammer mistakes and they have only 57 names left!). But what surprised me was that 5 of my friends forwarded it to me! Surely they don’t want their accounts to be deactivated!

Another puzzling thing is the motive of this spammer. There is no link. Hence he/she must be doing this just for the kick of it :)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 at 5:49 pm and is filed under Emails, Spam. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “iREEADD THIS spam hits Orkut”

  • 1
    Binny V A
    March 21st, 2007 18:20

    I would not call that Spam. Spam in orkut is what you see if you go to any communities forum. This message falls in the ‘Hoax’ category. I have seen this message - to date 3 people have send me this message.

    Next guy to send this message to me will get the link to this page. ;-)

  • 2
    jaysonjc
    March 21st, 2007 19:13

    Thanks binny ;)

  • 3
    Nirmal
    March 30th, 2007 22:43

    I have received numerous fwds like these… :-)

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