By default, anyone who knows your username or phone number (or who can guess it) can send you a message. The reason why so many people received unsolicited photos from Honey Crush and her spamming counterparts is that Snapchat allows anyone to send you photo messages. Snapchat’s CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel posted a message on the site’s official blog apologising for the spam attack, and offering advice to users. In some of the more eyebrow-raising situations she might enter into a steamy webcam conversations with you, where she strips and encourages you to do the same… only to take photos and video footage for the purposes of blackmail.
Once you’ve made sexy Honey your Skype friend, she could exploit you in a number of ways.įor instance, “she” could send you malicious links with the promise of a webcam chat, or send you spammy links to a dating website, or make automated Skype calls to spread fake anti-virus warnings. The messages sent via Snapchat encouraged recipients to connect with the apparent sexy senders on Skype. Receiving such a sleazy photograph can certainly get you into trouble (see the Twitter conversation above, where one user explains her boyfriend would have had some serious questions to answer if “Honey Crush” had turned out to be a secret saucy admirer of his rather than a spammer), but there are other potential security risks. What isn’t in doubt, however, is that Snapchat has become immensely popular – particularly among young people.Īnd so it wasn’t really a surprise to see users complain that they had been sent photos from scantily-clad women with names such as “Honey.Crush9” inviting them to join them in a Skype conversation.
Meanwhile, others have argued that it’s not safe at all. The service has become notorious because some have touted it as a way of safely “sexting” and sharing naked pictures. Still not getting the idea? Well, maybe this will help explain the attraction. It’s a smartphone app, available for both iPhone and Android devices, that allows users to control how long a sent message or picture can be seen for, before it expires after a maximum of 10 seconds. It’s possible – if you are over the age of 17 – that you still don’t know what Snapchat is. Snapchat, which claims to deliver more than 150 million saucy photos per day between users’ mobile phones, has suffered this week from a spam attack.
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