Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Day 2 - "This person lives approximately 3710 miles from your home"

I seem to be popular with women living in former members of the Soviet Union. Nizhniy Novgorod. I'm very big there. Hmmm, perhaps I was a jerk for writing user 'WHO CARES' about her communication skills. No wait, she's in Los Angeles. She deserved it. So as of today, nearly ALL of the women who wrote me have deleted accounts. 1 or 2 remain. Lavalife... spamming ground? No anti-spam protection whatsoever? Not looking good.

The woman from Novgorod has no profile, like the rest of them ("Member no longer has a profile in this community"), yet she is still able to write me. Nice big gaping security hole.

Today's lessons learned:
* lavalife is apparently easily hackable.
* Lots of spammers, fair amount of Russians and Romanians.
* USERS WITH NO ACCOUNTS CAN SEND ME MESSAGES!
* Half of the users want me to email them; the other half want my email address.

Why do spammers go through all the trouble of creating fake accounts on lavalife just to snag a couple email address to spam to? Is it worth that much? When it comes down to it, I really have no idea what to expect. Perhaps they're not spammers but porn companies trying to sell pics or something? Let's find out. Of course I created a separate email account for this, so bring on the spam. Who shall I write? How about this tasty message I just got:



Subject: Hi, You profile is HOT!
Message: Hello! How are you? I looked your profile and want know more about your. Sorry, but i dont have many time for talk here. You can write me your email address and i send you more photo and tell you about myself? Wait your answer!


Who would have guessed that so many lonely super models would be on lavalife. Wow. I have so much to teach them, about English. I sent her my email address.
Awaiting the onslaught.

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