Bother No More - A Weblog By Mattias Gunneras

There must be millions of these cases, but it's just so boring when spammers don't even try. I got this message sent to my Last FM profile.

"heyyy nice taste in music! i also like Robbie Williams alot..."

I've never liked Robbie Williams! This person has taken the time and effort of writing some kind of spider code, that goes through Last FM users pages and submit these messages.

Normally I couldn't care less about this stuff, but when they do it this badly, it just hurts. So first of all, let's ignore the bad choise of username (VITA77226) and the fact they're talking about free ringtones. What really makes this suck, is the first line of copy that is supposed to capture my attention. (I know, they succeeded in a twisted kind of way).

But my point is, it is so easy, using the Last FM API, to with just a username extract pretty much any information about users, including the type of music they like!