Monday, October 8th 2007

Spammers Use YouTube’s 'Invite a Friend' Service to Send Out Spam E-mails

Oct 8th, 2007 21:34 Discuss (7 Comments)

There has been reports on spammers using YouTube's "Invite a friend" service to send out spam E-mails. According to the security experts at Sophos, the spam bypasses traditional E-mail filters because the messages originate from YouTube's servers from the source address of service@youtube.com. So far, only dating websites and gaming accessories have been advertised through the comments section of the E-mail service.

Source: TG Daily

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7 Comments on Spammers Use YouTube’s 'Invite a Friend' Service to Send Out Spam E-mails

PVTCaboose1337

Graphical Hacker

JacKz5oThere has been reports on spammers using YouTube's "Invite a friend" service to send out spam E-mails. According to the security experts at Sophos, the spam bypasses traditional E-mail filters because the messages originate from YouTube’s servers from the source address of service@youtube.com. So far, only dating websites and gaming accessories have been advertised through the comments section of the E-mail service.

Source: TG Daily

What a quite clever way of spamming people.

not a suicide-bomber

i hate these f@ckers, i got my youtube account with some pm's with spam inside
:mad:

wazzledoozle

The solution is math-captchas for submitting comments and sending messages.

"2+5=", in an image and distorted, you type in the answer.

a111087

i already got plenty of those, go to your youtube account and mark them as spam

OnBoard

Got 2 of those, but both were joined just and their names were like kristy4317, didn't take a rocket scientist not to accept the request :)

Drac

I also didnt accept the invitation, its better to be alone and have no friends than have a bad companion

WarEagleAU

Bird of Prey

When did youtube have an invite a friend deal going on? Must be for registered users.

Spammers Use YouTube’s 'Invite a Friend' Service to Send Out Spam E-mails

7 Comments on Spammers Use YouTube’s 'Invite a Friend' Service to Send Out Spam E-mails

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