What to do with annoying SPAM messages on VKontakte

A significant part of life is definitely transferred to social networks, including the popular VKontakte network. Here they communicate with family and friends, friends and colleagues, make appointments and look for the necessary information. A particular inconvenience is that VKontakte users regularly receive spam, which creates inconvenience and sometimes serious problems. We offer you several effective ways to get rid of VKontakte spam.

The ease of use of such networks depends not only on the friendliness of the interface or the number of users. To a large extent, the degree of comfort depends on the amount of spam. Intrusive repetitive messages of various kinds, offering anything and everything, posting on the wall and in comments, invitations to countless groups, all this is annoying and interferes with communication and comfort. In addition, the messages often contain suggestions to switch to dubious resources, as a result of which the user easily picks up an “infection” on the computer and is forced to waste time and money removing it.

Example of VKontakte spam

Also, mass mailings can be carried out from the accounts of ordinary users, and they will not even know about it. Usually the resource administration reminds you of such cases in the form of account blocking. Which, you see, is even less pleasant than raking through countless messages.

What is spam

Unfortunately, most Internet users are familiar with spam firsthand. This concept appeared with the first electronic mailboxes and migrated to social networks immediately after their appearance.

Spam is the mass sending of advertising materials. In most cases, the messages ask you to buy something or perform some action. But, you must admit, the vast majority of recipients will not follow any instructions from strangers. Spammers know and take this into account. To force a person to act as they need, they resort to tricks and tricks. Quite often there are messages with the text that you have become the millionth recipient of a letter, won shares in a well-known company, or received a multimillion-dollar inheritance. All you need to do to receive your winnings is pay postage, call the specified number, or send an SMS. And now you are already imagining your new home, a huge SUV and summer in San Remo. And in the end, you get all the money written off from your mobile phone account and a virus on your computer.

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In what cases can messages cause a ban?

Blocking of accounts on VKontakte is a very common occurrence. And one of the most common reasons is spam. It is the sending of intrusive advertising in private messages that provokes users to leave complaints, which subsequently leads to the freezing of the sender’s page.

It's a freeze, not a ban forever. The first time the page can be frozen for several hours, then for a day, for a week, etc., up to six months. In the future, the account may be blocked forever.

Today, when VKontakte is actively used for commercial purposes, spam has become one of the most common types of violations. Every day, thousands of users are blocked for sending DMs in order to advertise their product/service/brand. And as you know, this is prohibited by the site rules.

Of course, sending messages in itself does not lead to a ban. The page is blocked by complaints left by people who receive intrusive advertising. Spam has become so recognizable that people who use it have to go out of their way to ensure that their message is as different as possible from the template text, and at the same time arouses genuine interest among the recipient. You can add comments to all of the above. Since they, along with PM, are used to send advertising, and can also cause a ban.

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What does spam look like?

Spammers try in every possible way to disguise their messages and make them as similar as possible to messages from ordinary users. Despite best efforts, advertising messages are very easy to spot. Here are the main types of spam on VK:

Mass mailing in personal messages. Usually it comes from strangers, but you can receive such a “letter of happiness” from a friend. You may be asked to vote for someone, send an SMS, go to a website, or send money to your account.
Messages on your wall. If you have not closed your feed from strangers, then anyone can publish an entry on it. Spammers willingly take advantage of this, because not only you, but also your friends will see the message on the wall. Texts and requests usually do not differ from those received in private messages.
Comments. This is a kind of spam on the wall. Most users prohibit even friends from leaving posts on their feed. But few people close comments. Attackers are happy to exploit this loophole.
Marks on the photo. If you have not prohibited strangers from tagging you in photographs, then be prepared for the fact that you may be tagged in a picture advertising a remedy for hair loss or a device for pumping up your abs.
Invitations to join communities. Some spammers do more than simply send messages. They create entire groups in which they place advertisements, gain subscribers, and then send out spam in the form of an invitation to join this community.
Activity on your page. This type of spam is similar to the previous one. The only differences are in the approach. In this option, the “advertising agent” creates a special page, which is filled with various “marketing” materials and calls to action. After that, he visits users’ pages, gives them likes and comments. The victim, seeing a heart from a stranger, goes to his profile and ends up in an advertising “dump.”
Friend requests from strangers. This variation is very similar to the on-page activity approach. Only here spammers act head-on and immediately add you as a friend. The photographs of fake pages usually contain girls or guys with model appearance who attract attention.

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Inviting

groups - old, but alive, most often regional accounts are used to segment the audience. We create an account for Anna from Rostov-on-Don and invite 5,000 Rostov men as friends, and then invite them to the “penis enlargement” group with a separate USP, by the way You can download offline business.
meetings - the option is as above, or we throw 1000 rubles to some group owner, set her up as the “meeting organizer”, create a USP and invite all group members to the “meeting”
chats - a chat is created, the USP is attached, 200 people are invited en masse. Most often this is done with a niche mailing list. I have seen mailings for the sale of merged courses of MNCs.

It’s profitable, you invite others to sign up for a well-developed public page (the business subscribes to everyone in a row) and then offer them the finished product.

Reasons for spam

How did spammers find you and how did you get into their mailing list? Besides the banal, but nevertheless relevant answer “by accident,” there are several reasons why you became the victim:

The use of special programs for working with social networks.
A virus on your computer that transfers your data to third parties.
Using data from your VKontakte account on phishing sites.
Active use of programs and services for increasing likes, subscribers, comments and other statistical indicators.
Hacking due to an insufficiently complex account password.

Spam and spammer pages are actively blocked by the VK protection system. Therefore, attackers create new profiles or hack users and send messages to their friends. Therefore, if you began to receive strange messages from a friend asking you to send money to a credit card or go to a strange website, call him and find out if he actually wrote these messages.

Important! A spammer's fake page can be easily identified by the date of publication of photographs and other posts. If all the photos and posts were published quite recently, then it is better to immediately send such a person to an emergency situation.

Massfolow

I don’t see the point in chewing on all this; I think you understand the specifics yourself.

from the group - emphasis on the community audience with a pronounced interest (multiple members of the CpaRip or Smol community), for example, on referencing FB accounts.
from search – focus on the audience with maximum settings from VK search (regional and niche audiences)
from possible friends - if you have a “backbone” of your target audience, then the likelihood of accepting an application from “possible” friends is high, because there is a “mutual friends” column.

How to get rid of spam

To protect yourself from the machinations of spammers, you need to behave carefully on the Internet in the future. If you have already become a victim of advertising emails, you can do the following right now:

Scan your computer for viruses. You can use free healing utilities such as Dr. Web.

Set restrictions in VK privacy settings for third-party users. You can block people from sending you private messages, inviting you to groups, and even make your profile completely private.

Connect your login confirmation to vk.com via SMS message.

Change your password to a more complex one and keep it in a safe place. Instructions for installing the most secure code can be found in the article, “ What kind of password can you come up with for VK? ”

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Groups (search)

issuing on request LF/HF via Vk - I already talked about this method once.

A group of 4k participants is taken (group/public is not important) with a presence in the search, it is better if it is dead in terms of audience. The topic is changed to LF/HF request of adult topics (for example: Photo Porn Milf Iphone). Since VK search (safe) is not produces similar groups of a larger size in the search, then you will be top 1-3 with such a request in VK itself, because you are already in search. The result is in about a week (after indexing) from 2k uniques in the daily group.

Further, if the group is kept in search, updated with content, etc., it is possible to switch to the Google/poison doorway (an example of similar results in Google is at random)

Google/Poison doorway – follows from the previous point, it happens rarely, but it increases traffic x10

Spam program VKinformer

Spam is sent to a very large number of people. If you do this manually, the process will take a long time, and there will be little benefit from it. Most “advertisers” use special programs. VKinformer is one such service.

The price of the full version of the program is 2500 rubles. However, for evaluation purposes, you can use the free version. With its help, you can evaluate the entire functionality of the program within two hours. After this period it will stop working.

VKinformer allows you to use all the opportunities for sending advertisements that were discussed in the article:

sending private messages to friends;
publishing posts on the wall in groups and on personal pages;
sending spam to unfamiliar users.

Important! The use of such services is punishable by the social network’s security system. Create an additional page for working with the program to protect your main profile from possible sanctions.

As you can see, the topic of spam is very voluminous. It’s not easy to fit it all into one article. However, now you know the main types of advertising mailings and how to protect yourself from the machinations of attackers.

Short characters

groups - the topic is more than described by CpaKing - click and by the way, it is quite alive, there are a couple of shorties who are still alive and bringing traffic.
search query - has nothing to do with short characters, but relates to the creation of pages, essentially the same doorway of the group, but here we put LF/HF in the first and last name of the account when registering. Then we smoothly download the page and it is indexed in people search, for example, “iPhone repair.”

Blocking messages from strangers

Next, go to the Privacy, Contact me section. Determine who you are willing to receive messages from.

Blocking messages from strangers does not mean that no one from the outside will ever be able to get to know you. He will send a friend request, and if it is approved, he will be able to chat.