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Spam Friending

I just received a friend request from a Jen Thomas advertising work from home for Google.
Has anyone received these and how can we stop them?

Permalink Reply by Colleen McCarthy-Evans on August 14, 2009 at 2:12pm: Yes, I got it too...rather annoying...unless of course it was just a friendly thing...does anyone know Jen Thomas?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Giovanni Barricelli on August 14, 2009 at 4:52pm: Yes, I received one too.

You can stop it...Here's how I stopped it on my network.
I control ALL members that wish to join. The members that don't fill out the profiles, and keep them blank, and when the network owner (being me in this case) tries to check the email address, it's a "spam" address,..........then I simply do not allow that member on.
I was receiving at least one of those spam members a week until then. Now, I rarely get a person that tries to join my club.

That would mean that the owner of this club would have to be proactive.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tim Walsh on August 21, 2009 at 1:58am: That member has been banned. Please let me know if it happens again and thanks for sharing it. We want to keep this place fun and Spam free.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Giovanni Barricelli on November 4, 2009 at 1:20am: yep.
Here is how I prevent this kind of kr@p on my network.

I first come up with questions that must be answered and known by those involved with my game.

Second, I oversee accepting all ....in fact, I just accepted someone,...wasn't sure about them, stayed around a few moments and sure enough they tried spamming.......bamm, immediate ban.

So, I guess you not only have to have someone accept members, but you have to have admin's who play watchdog once in a while...; ▶ Reply to This