I knew it. I knew that all these recent “friend requests” on Facebook from people I completely don’t know are bogus. I received two requests within a couple of weeks from women I don’t know and have no common friends with. I then received another request from an Agent person in New York that has over 600 contacts. The latter may be a legitimate person who is simply trying to build up his network similar to what recruiters have been doing on LinkedIn.

I was very suspect about the first two requests which I have ignored (a Facebook option). Now comes word that these requests could be from people trying to create fake profiles so that they could sell them on EBay. As reported by an article in ValleyWag yesterday an EBay user is trying to sell 10 fake profiles from Facebook each containing 200+ friends. See the full story: http://valleywag.com/5015883/facebook-profiles-for-sale-on-ebay

It looks like the items have since been pulled off of EBay. Did Facebook contact EBay and have the items removed? Did the person who created the items simply get a mass amount of negative feedback and remove the items? How many other people are out there doing the same thing and building up a Spam database that they can sell to others without even selling the actual Profile?