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fake LJ accounts
Sunday, May 24th, 2009 12:41 pmWell, this is interesting. Q's LJ account just got friended by this id. The profile on that account doesn't seem suspicious. But it only has friends-locked entries.
I did a Google-search, and found an older cached version of that account's profile. The cached version has a different user pic, is in Russian, and has a completely different set of entries in the friends-list - several of which are Russian-sounding.
It seems that the spammers/bot-creators are getting smarter and realizing that the Russian parts are tip-offs. And it seems that they must be friending a certain number of journals, waiting a while to see who will friend them back, and then unfriending the previous ones in order to friend another set of journals. That avoids them seeming suspicious by having too many entries in their friends-list.
I wonder where they are getting the text to use on their profiles; if they are randomly copying it from other journals...? Ah, it must be so. I did a search on the profile text, and found this account, which appears to be a real one: http://vazor222.livejournal.com/profile.
Off to report the suspicious ID...
Another possibility is that it was a real account that got hijacked by a spammer.
I did a Google-search, and found an older cached version of that account's profile. The cached version has a different user pic, is in Russian, and has a completely different set of entries in the friends-list - several of which are Russian-sounding.
It seems that the spammers/bot-creators are getting smarter and realizing that the Russian parts are tip-offs. And it seems that they must be friending a certain number of journals, waiting a while to see who will friend them back, and then unfriending the previous ones in order to friend another set of journals. That avoids them seeming suspicious by having too many entries in their friends-list.
I wonder where they are getting the text to use on their profiles; if they are randomly copying it from other journals...? Ah, it must be so. I did a search on the profile text, and found this account, which appears to be a real one: http://vazor222.livejournal.com/profile.
Off to report the suspicious ID...
Another possibility is that it was a real account that got hijacked by a spammer.