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Of late, I'm getting about one social network SPAM email per day. Two companies are responsible for this recent SPAMming of the Web. GoBigNetwork dot com and OpenBC dot com (no Google Juice for you). These networks import your LinkedIn.com contacts and SPAM them with invites. If you have an account with either, than close it, or you are contributing to the SPAM problem.
Investigating further, the invite came from Tyler Ransburgh, an employee of Go Big Network. He has 594 connections on LinkedIn. I guess he's randomly inviting everybody on LinkedIn and then using those accepts to invite them over to Go Big Network.
Go Big Network = SPAMMERS
All SPAMMERS MUST BE DESTROYED
Naina, this is not the option to invite from an address book. This is an option to invite all your LinkedIn connections. Even so, inviting 1000 users via your address book is SPAMming. The end-user is most responsible, but networks like openBC should limit your ability to SPAM to much less than 1000. Of course, they will grow much faster if they allow their users to SPAM others. That's the problem with SPAM, given any piece of unsolicited email, there's always somebody there making the case why this SPAM is OK.
Randy
Randy
I think enough spam is already flooding the internet, we do not want this cross-member spamming
Raj
i'm in game!
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