Feb 18 2007

Something Fishy on Mybloglog “Blogmemes Belgium”

Published by at 8:45 pm under blogging,mybloglog

This is very unusual. Listed on the hot communities on is a community that was titled “Blogmemes Belgium“. It has 145 unsuspecting members and what looked to be more authors than members.

As I was scratching my head over the number of authors, the “screenshot” changed, as did the community title to “Blog f*%k Belge”.

WTF! Glad I didn’t join that one. Screen shot below

Blogmeme Belgium

Update: The name has now been changed (back?) to “Progressive House“- how bizarre.

Perkonis sheds a bit more light….

Update: Please read MyBlogLog’s Blog for an update on how they have fixed this issue.

5 responses so far

5 Responses to “Something Fishy on Mybloglog “Blogmemes Belgium””

  1. # Beckyon 18 Feb 2007 at 9:50 pm

    I noticed it too.

    ~Becky

  2. # Keith L. Dickon 19 Feb 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Yep they emailed me and wanted to add me as a “Co-Author” I said I didn’t know what that meant then all of the sudden “Blogmemes” shows up in my Profile…

    Then the next day below it it says: “This is Spam”…. I deleted it and hopefully that problem will be solved by the MyBlogLog peeps…

  3. # Megon 19 Feb 2007 at 7:22 pm

    Hi Keith – thanks for dropping by :)

    Glad you got it sorted out. It appears they have fixed the problem.

  4. # Chee Lean Yewon 20 Feb 2007 at 6:38 pm

    Hi,
    As I’m quite new to MyBlogLog I didn’t know much about this “co-author”
    stuff.
    I received an invitation email from Blogmemes Belgium 3 days ago and
    accidently clicked the “Accept invitation” link in the email (I was having
    a bit of internet connection problem that day).
    Few hours later when I login to check my email—there were more than
    200 emails from some of the so-called Co-Authors !
    Anyway I’d it removed from my site on the same day. I don’t believe
    that’s the way to go. These are spammers !
    My style is to seriously studied the blogs/sites of a member and decide
    if I want much to do with that person.

    BTW, I’m going to join your community and like to have you as a contact.
    I can learn something from your blog.
    Have anice day.
    Chee

  5. # sauerkrauton 21 Feb 2007 at 5:41 am

    Thanks for pointing out the spam, chica. Well done.