I was minding my own business on my Yahoo Messenger earlier, just chatting it up with BFL even though we’re in the same room (go figure) and all of a sudden I get a deluge of instant message spam. I’m talking about everything from North Carolina auto insurance to low cost medical insurance. Even a few not work appropriate spam sites as well.

To be perfectly honest the instant message spam has gotten way out of control. I have one Yahoo name that no longer sign into simply because there is too much IM spam on it. The few times I do log into it, there are at least 40 if not more IM spam message waiting for me. It’s getting to be as bad as email spam. (

Between email spam, comment spam, and IM spam, it’s a wonder anyone has time to actually surf the web, blog, email, or IM. I mean really, I spend a lot of time each day dealing with this stuff, and I have anti-spam measures in place. My spam folders catch a lot of stuff in my email and I use both Bad Behavior and Akismet on my blogs. But for IM spam, there is no filters. Just a button to report it on AIM or a block on Yahoo. *sigh* Maybe the companies who do IM software should look at possibly adding a spam catcher on for instant messages.

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