iPhone App Spam
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- ethanfink
Have any of you had this happen?
Recently one of my iPhone applications spammed my whole gmail account. I wanted to hear a perspective from iPhone users on this new trend and to learn ways to protect myself and others from this happening again.
The only application I can blame at this point in my investigative process is www.fring.com, a free voip and messaging company. This is the only application I shared my gmail contact list with not knowing that it would be spammed. The other applications I downloaded in a 24 hour period were: icall, textPlus, & truphone. However I did not share my gmail contact list with these applications.
The online company Aviary had a problem with an iPhone application spamming his account. However this was another application called iDrive (which I don't own). You can read about his similar trials and tribulations here:
http://aviary.com/bizblog/posts/…
I called Apple to report this spamming activity, and they basically said there is nothing they can do. I sign agreements with the third-party apps and they have no control over those agreements. The thing is that they do have control. If they can take an app off being x-rated, they can take off a spamming application.
Does anyone have a list of applications that are spamming the iPhone community like this? There needs to first be a sham and blame campaign followed by legal action on this illegal practice.
- inhaler970
never heard of it.
- utopian0
what is an iPhone?
- ethanfink0
I can always depend on you guys for advice :)
- ethanfink0
Well I wasn't spammed, my whole gmail inbox was spammed. Do you have your gmail contacts imported into their program?
- idiots0
whole gmail inbox? not just half of it? learn to communicate clearly man.
- ethanfink0
Whole gmail contact list 'idiot' - as stated in initial post