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Oh my god, this is it.

I posted a story a while back saying that I receive messages from a FB account created with my email. I suspected that somebody may have made an account with my email by mistake, but FB keeps on sending messages with "you know this guys?" etc, and it's about people I know.

So I had a FB shadow account created, it inferred my email (probably through looking up some of my friends address books on their email), and now it keeps trying to make me join FB with that account.

This is both creepy and scary. Yet, I'll leave it be because it adds to the noise in the data they have.



You need to make sure you mark every single email like this as spam. Eventually, f we all do this, they will be permanently marked as spammers.




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