Lots of phraudsters use this sort of technique as well. I started receiving several spam IMs a day from a friend of mine. When I asked what was up, she said tha

Lots of phraudsters use this sort of technique as well. I started receiving several spam IMs a day from a friend of mine. When I asked what was up, she said that she had foolishly given her account name and password to a service which purported to tell her what other IM accounts had blacklisted her. Of course, many more accounts blacklisted her once they started receiving the spam messages...