In the last twelve hours I’ve received several identical (and supposedly personal) Facebook messages from legitimate friends urging me to check out an application that will identify who has a crush on me by sending text messages to my phone (I can only imagine the flood of spam and advertisements that this service has in mind).

It was just a matter of time before hackers and spammers directed their efforts at Facebook. One can only hope that Facebook is taking good care of the personal data based on the settings we have selected within their ‘privacy settings’. Would there be any reason to doubt them?

A segment of the PodCamp Philly community was spammed yesterday by a member of the community.

By his own admission, Rick Glasby scraped the registration list to offer his business services to recipients of his email message. In the mail he claims that to reduce his guilt, he will use a portion of the revenue received from the campaign to sponsor next year’s event. In other words, he spams you, you buy his services, he sponsors next year’s event with your money. It’s worth noting that he was NOT a sponsor this year.

It’s unfortunate that this kind of activity happens at all; now we have to contend with it from within.