Startups feel the lure of friend spam

Frederico Jennings and Clarabel McJones and easy-to-spot pitches for meds and hot replica w4tches. Nowadays, supposedly legitimate startups are jumping on the spam bandwagon, and manipulating people to sell out their own friends and contacts.

As everyone learned with the first wave of email-borne spam, resistance is futile. You can try to fight it, but the spammers will always find a way around countermeasures. Friend spam is here to stay.

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