Dio (diachrony) wrote in srz_bznz, @ 2007-11-09 10:01:00 |
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Entry tags: | site scams |
why not to use shelfari, ever.
Shelfari spam: "basically social networking rapists"
Article links to 51 (yes, 51) blog and journal posts from furious victims of the Shelfari spam scam.
If you haven't heard of Shelfari, be warned that you may get spam invitations in your inbox if any of your friends have registered with the service.
Per Jesse Wegman of the New York Observer: Shelfari spammed "every single person with whom I have exchanged an e-mail in the past three years, in addition to every single person who has ever been on the same cc list as I have, regardless of whether we have ever met, in addition to every single listserv I have ever joined and every single Web site from which I have ever ordered anything."
The method is simple. When you sign up for Shelfari you are dumped into a screen that offers to send out check-out-my-books invitations to friends. The user interface is confusing and deceptive, and what seems like an attempt to continue into the site really sends out hundreds or thousands of letters to everyone you've ever known by email. Reminder-letters follow. Skipping this step requires clicking out-of-the-way, gray non-underlined text.