Message to Facebook Admins - Get Medieval on Yuwie

I am an admin. in the Facebook for Business Group - we just passed 9000 members (yay) - and subsequently have become targets for endless spam. I use the delete button like a bad habit, as I like to keep the discussion board spam free and on topic. It is chock full of useful information and debate on all things FB4Biz, check it out - but I digress.

Over the past several months a web marketing company called Yuwie, which disguises itself as a social network has started paying its members a few cents to trick people into signing up to the site by referring them via web boards/email etc. This is despicable internet behavior in my books but apparently just fine to the many advertisers that appear on the Yuwie site. Naturally this spam appears on message boards throughout FB and it causing me much vexing.

The following is the sign up procedure for Yuwie, these are unaltered screen shots - I think you will see that this is nothing more than a harvester of demographic information and not a social network. Hopefully then you will start an anti Yuwie movement, the likes of which the world has never seen.

Step 1 - if you click a link that is posted you don’t see this, naturally I wouldn’t give a bottom feeding spammer a nickel’s worth of recognition so I just signed up because I wanted to join this ‘awesome’ social network.

Step 2 - make sure we have your correct information to spam you or you don’t get your shiny nickel.

Step 3 - before we allow you to access our amazing social network, please send more information to telemarketers and spammers/direct marketers. Lets start with Old Navy.

Step 4 - not done yet, send your info. to these guys too - you might need this product as you are probably having trouble breathing by now. WTF is a Pulmicort Respule?

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Step 5 - wait, send info. again - this time to Overstock, she is actually pretty hot, nice job on talent sourcing Overstock!

Step 6 - your eyes are probably tired from looking at all these ads, so try some new contacts…

Step 7 -In case you want to get more spam and mail - here are the rest of our sponsors, Congrats!! you’re a member, you lucky ignorant S.O.B.

Step 8 - Ok, now please post this on every discussion board and wall on FB and email it to all your friends to get a small jar of shiny nickels. Then slam your head in your desk drawer repeatedly.

So I repeat my plea to Facebook - can you parse the word Yuwie? if so ban it from Facebook. This will no doubt piss off all the people named Yuwie, but as Spock said “the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few”

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