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How is a spammer going to figure out phone numbers of people on my list from social media? I don't know about you, but I don't have my Facebook friends publicl
by magduf 8y ago
How is a spammer going to figure out phone numbers of people on my list from social media? I don't know about you, but I don't have my Facebook friends publicly viewable.
And that's an awful lot of work just to cold-call someone to try to sell them insurance or whatever.
- ryanlol 8y agoWith a handy-dandy facebook bug that allows them to scrape such data at scale? This has happened multiple times before, at least two separate incidents have made the news.
- magduf 8y agoThis doesn't seem like a reliable way of running a business: just hoping that you can exploit a bug in Facebook (which will surely be fixed before long) so you can grab people's friends, try to figure out their phone numbers, then spoof them, then cold-call them trying to sell them crap insurance. I'm sorry, this just sounds far-fetched to me. History seems to have shown that when hurdles are just a little too high, the spammers just don't bother.
- ryanlol 8y agoWhy just facebook? Spammers have been exploiting bugs like this in everything for years. The data gets scraped and then sold and resold.