aim random iming?

[davidsi]

does anyone else get people not on their buddy list iming them with "hello" and then wtih no response afterwards?

 

[Elderly Newt]

no...

could be people pranking you, a bot, or some sort of a virus type thing using someone's sn to IM random people...

 

[igowerf]

It could be AIM bots. Do the names look like they're randomly generated?

 

[pontifex]

i've used aim like 5 times in the past 3 years...
i don't use any other IMs either.

guess thats what happens when you don't have friends...

 

[xtknight]

Amazingly enough I've never gotten spam on AIM from anyone I didn't know (with allow-all-users-to-contact-me mode). ICQ however was a disaster.