Block Live Messenger invitations

I'm getting spammed at my live messenger service by invitations. Every time I
open the application I get 10 spammed invitations. How do I block these
unwanted invitations? I don't want to reject them one by one.

Greetings,

Unfortunately Messenger doesn't have a feature like this. The only thing you really can do
is automatically accept them, which obviously you don't want to do.

Since this has been reaching rather epidemic proportions, I have some other ideas on how to
better get around this that I need work on.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"jackshafer" <> wrote in message
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> I'm getting spammed at my live messenger service by invitations. Every time I
> open the application I get 10 spammed invitations. How do I block these
> unwanted invitations? I don't want to reject them one by one.

This has been annoying me for the last 3 or 4 weeks. It has definitely
gotten worse and we need to have the option to block unwanted invitations.
Please help get that option into messenger.

thanks

Scott

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Unfortunately Messenger doesn't have a feature like this. The only thing you really can do
> is automatically accept them, which obviously you don't want to do.
>
> Since this has been reaching rather epidemic proportions, I have some other ideas on how to
> better get around this that I need work on.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
> "jackshafer" <> wrote in message
> news:B2B28849-A69B-47EB-B45B-...
> > I'm getting spammed at my live messenger service by invitations. Every time I
> > open the application I get 10 spammed invitations. How do I block these
> > unwanted invitations? I don't want to reject them one by one.
>
>
> .
>

Hi Scott,

I'll do my best.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"scottjohnson" <> wrote in message
news:8C1A9D96-A3D0-4E66-9104-...
> This has been annoying me for the last 3 or 4 weeks. It has definitely
> gotten worse and we need to have the option to block unwanted invitations.
> Please help get that option into messenger.
>
> thanks
>
> Scott
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Unfortunately Messenger doesn't have a feature like this. The only thing you really can
>> do
>> is automatically accept them, which obviously you don't want to do.
>>
>> Since this has been reaching rather epidemic proportions, I have some other ideas on how
>> to
>> better get around this that I need work on.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>> "jackshafer" <> wrote in message
>> news:B2B28849-A69B-47EB-B45B-...
>> > I'm getting spammed at my live messenger service by invitations. Every time I
>> > open the application I get 10 spammed invitations. How do I block these
>> > unwanted invitations? I don't want to reject them one by one.
>>
>>
>> .
>>

I will check back and wait as well. It used to not happen, but it is getting
worse and worse over the last month. Also, my MSN e-mail account is not
published ANYWHERE.

Hi Tim,

If you're on anyone else's list (of course you are, otherwise you wouldn't be using
Messenger) then you have probably been published on a list somewhere. The reason is if any
of your contact's provide their username and password to anyone, that anyone now has their
credentials can log into the Messenger using that user and grab all the addresses on their
list which are then sold off.

That is why the majority of these Messenger phishing scams don't ask you do anything beyond
fill in your credentials and then send the link to your contacts to do the same -- they're
just information collectors.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--



"Tim Gahagan - GGI Technologies - GGI.NET"
< soft.com> wrote in message
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> I will check back and wait as well. It used to not happen, but it is getting
> worse and worse over the last month. Also, my MSN e-mail account is not
> published ANYWHERE.

Hi folks first post here sooooooo HELLO!

I fired up my wifes laptop and there was yet another invite...

My first action after blocking was to finally go through the availabl
options in ALL the menus.

What I was looking for was a 'box' that said something like this-

block invitations from anyone not on your contact lis

If this existed then it would sure would make our computing life better

Just a thought and all the information already exists so this filte
should not be to challenging to implement.

Thanks in advance if anybody can actually get this done,

Bil

--
bilcheri

I've been getting daily, multiple friend request from random contacts which seem like a virus o spam of some sort. If I add them, they start the conversation with a webcam invite and always say how exited they are.

If there were some possible way that the person who is going to add you by email, -in you Windows Live Messenger Account - needed to answer a personal question on the person upon he is requesting permission to be accepted, it would filter at least a 90% of unwanted friend requests.

Any updates would be most appreciated, since I've had my e-mail account for many years now and I do not wish to eliminate the account.

Sincerely,

Coqui



Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:

Hi Tim,If you are on anyone else's list (of course you are, otherwise you
12-Mar-10

Hi Tim,

If you are on anyone else's list (of course you are, otherwise you would not be using
Messenger) then you have probably been published on a list somewhere. The reason is if any
of your contact's provide their username and password to anyone, that anyone now has their
credentials can log into the Messenger using that user and grab all the addresses on their
list which are then sold off.

That is why the majority of these Messenger phishing scams do not ask you do anything beyond
fill in your credentials and then send the link to your contacts to do the same -- they are
just information collectors.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--



"Tim Gahagan - GGI Technologies - GGI.NET"

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Every time messenger logs in I also get unwanted invites. As Scott and others
pointed out this has suddenly got considerably worse. I used to get the odd
one now and then but I am now getting 3 or 4 on each logon. I totally agree
with bilcheri's comment on simple filter implementation. With regard to
messenger IDs getting into the wild it seems like an inside job has occured
recently as there are so many forum threads reporting this sudden increase in
unwanted invites. I am beginning to consider just binning messenger for good
if nothing is done to resolve this.

"bilcheri" wrote:

>
> Hi folks first post here sooooooo HELLO!
>
> I fired up my wifes laptop and there was yet another invite....
>
> My first action after blocking was to finally go through the available
> options in ALL the menus.
>
> What I was looking for was a 'box' that said something like this--
>
> block invitations from anyone not on your contact list
>
> If this existed then it would sure would make our computing life better.
>
>
> Just a thought and all the information already exists so this filter
> should not be to challenging to implement.
>
> Thanks in advance if anybody can actually get this done,
>
> Bill
>
>
> --
> bilcheri
> .
>

I am also getting spammed daily. Typically they want me to visit
"www.make109.com" (which I have never taken them up on, for obvious reasons).
It is definitely becoming an epidemic, resulting in the disuse of my
personal Live Messenger account. I still use it at work to communicate to my
coworkers, but my hotmail-connected account won't be used until I can block
ALL invites. This should be an easy fix, right?

Thanks for your attention to this!
Robert

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Unfortunately Messenger doesn't have a feature like this. The only thing you really can do
> is automatically accept them, which obviously you don't want to do.
>
> Since this has been reaching rather epidemic proportions, I have some other ideas on how to
> better get around this that I need work on.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
> "jackshafer" <> wrote in message
> news:B2B28849-A69B-47EB-B45B-...
> > I'm getting spammed at my live messenger service by invitations. Every time I
> > open the application I get 10 spammed invitations. How do I block these
> > unwanted invitations? I don't want to reject them one by one.
>
>
> .
>