Facebook Spam Makes a Comeback

Facebook has been aggressive at fighting spam on their site since early on. The first step was to limit group messaging (which reportedly won’t be restricted for much longer) followed by automated restrictions on users that were sending too many messages. Well now it appears that some spammers are getting aggressive and posting on walls across the site. A developer of a top 40 application sent me an email this morning describing his daily battle with removing spam from the wall and forum for his application.

Later in the day I was browsing through Facebook and came across the a post within the “No, I will NOT invite 20 friends just to add your application!” group which had a profile picture of a nude woman and a link to a pornography site.

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