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Google's Orkut Fighting Against Scrap Spam
Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on June 29, 2006
Apparently spammers have decided to make orkut their home territory for annoying users by filling up their scrap books with links towards pornography or "get rich quick" schemes.

Google is apparently fighting back by not only warning users about these links but by surpressing them as well.

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(Note: the above image says, "Warning: Please be careful when clicking on unfamiliar links in scraps or other parts of this site that navigate away from orkut.com.")

If a link is deemed suspicious by Google, the team will not only warn the potential victim but replace the link with a "SUSPICIOUS LINK SUPPRESSED" in bold.

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Spammers have been using a variety of tools to "spam the masses" which many people have found to be very irritating. Although the war against spammers will probably out last the war against terror, it is good to see Google taking aggressive measures against them.

About the author: Darnell Clayton is a Financial Services Professional who helps families and clients save money for their retirement accounts instead of Uncle Sam's wallet.

Previously he was in the Information Technology field, which helped him acquire his "geek-like" powers.

He currently blogs at Inside Orkut detailing what goes on inside Google's community forums.





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