Re: About blocked contacts ?

Greetings,

I don't really believe these are from the web. Have you ever received one of those fake
messages from one of your contacts urging you to go to a check out a web site because they've
given out their username and password out to a phisher (the page they link you to then asks
you to do the same)?

If so, they've now harvested that person's entire contact list and has slowly been being sold
to spammers around the world. This is pretty much an unpluggable hole on the side of
obtaining the addresses as one way or another, they're going to be able to get them. What
needs to happen is better invite spam protection in Messenger itself.

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"Torbjørn Morka" <> wrote in message
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> It seems lately that a wide number of unwanted persons use some sort of tool to search the
> web for email-adresses, hotmail preferably.
> Those attempts to add me on their contactlist, result a blocking and denial from my part.
> However, the list grows bigger by each month.
>
> I guess that there are no current solution to this unwanted "phenomena" ? It will for the
> future also be impossible to remove such unwanted contacts and hope that MSN also provides
> such that my adress is removed from THEIR list too ?
>
> I dont want some twisted CAM-hooker on my lists, come on...
>
>

Yep

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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"Th-BM" <> wrote in message
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> Wery true this, i have often seen messages from contacts not online sending messages in
> ENGLISH to me, beeing norwegian that is not what we do here around actually
>
> Unfortunately sometimes some of them seem to accept this brilliant "offer" and there we
> go...
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> skrev i melding
> news:...
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I don't really believe these are from the web. Have you ever received one of those fake
>> messages from one of your contacts urging you to go to a check out a web site because
>> they've given out their username and password out to a phisher (the page they link you to
>> then asks you to do the same)?
>>
>> If so, they've now harvested that person's entire contact list and has slowly been being
>> sold to spammers around the world. This is pretty much an unpluggable hole on the side of
>> obtaining the addresses as one way or another, they're going to be able to get them.
>> What needs to happen is better invite spam protection in Messenger itself.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> "Torbjørn Morka" <> wrote in message
>> news:. ..
>>> It seems lately that a wide number of unwanted persons use some sort of tool to search
>>> the web for email-adresses, hotmail preferably.
>>> Those attempts to add me on their contactlist, result a blocking and denial from my part.
>>> However, the list grows bigger by each month.
>>>
>>> I guess that there are no current solution to this unwanted "phenomena" ? It will for the
>>> future also be impossible to remove such unwanted contacts and hope that MSN also
>>> provides such that my adress is removed from THEIR list too ?
>>>
>>> I dont want some twisted CAM-hooker on my lists, come on...
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>