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419 Scammers Set Up Roost on Facebook
- tlrobinson 18y agoThis should be almost trivial to contain, since Facebook is a closed system. Beyond users flagging spam manually, it would be easy to implement some heuristic filter to detect these scammers: new accounts with very few friends and lots of sent messages. I actually got a 419 scam message on GitHub last week, but that was the only one so far.
- joshsharp 18y agoForgetting '419' was the designation for Nigerian scammers, I thought the title referred to an extremely accurate analysis of current Facebook spammer movements. Oops.