udor wrote:
How does that work, from an economical POV?

It's just like any spam:  low overhead.

It's virtually free to send spam, so if you get 1 response for every 1,000,000 spam contacts, they're still going to make money.

udor wrote:
In most cases... there are no friends of hers yet... sometimes 5, rarely more than 10... so, I delete the request, report it as spam and it disappears.

Your answer is highlighted.
Five to ten lonely, sexually frustrated, and obviously dumb guys got suckered into it.
If only one of them falls for whatever spam is being hawked the spammer makes money.
Multiply that by a few dozen, hundred, or possibly thousand and it becomes a substantial income.
Not bad for $0 investment other than time.

udor wrote:
Btw., I don't think I started to get as many until I hit over 3,000 contacts on my FB profile..

I don't think that the amount of contacts is what's attracting them.  I get about 5 friend requests from those type of scammers every week.  Sometimes several in a day, other times once every few days.  I don't have anywhere near 3000 'friends' on FB, and I'm very cautious as to who I do accept, so I don't think it's via any of them.

SayCheeZ!  wrote:
I don't think that the amount of contacts is what's attracting them.  I get about 5 friend requests from those type of scammers every week.  Sometimes several in a day, other times once every few days.  I don't have anywhere near 3000 'friends' on FB, and I'm very cautious as to who I do accept, so I don't think it's via any of them.

This.

I have very few 'Friends' on fb, all people I know, am working or have worked with and receive just as many of these fake profile/spambot/porn link type requests regularly.

I don't know how they work or what the common thread may be but I simply ignore them and leave them to fb to delete.

Brian Diaz wrote:
It's just like any spam:  low overhead.

It's virtually free to send spam, so if you get 1 response for every 1,000,000 spam contacts, they're still going to make money.

SayCheeZ!  wrote:
Your answer is highlighted.
Five to ten lonely, sexually frustrated, and obviously dumb guys got suckered into it.
If only one of them falls for whatever spam is being hawked the spammer makes money.
Multiply that by a few dozen, hundred, or possibly thousand and it becomes a substantial income.
Not bad for $0 investment other than time.

Thanks to both of you... that makes sense.

Also... some people are wondering why I have "so many" contacts on FB. I am selective in accepting friends requests or sending them out...

With a few exceptions, pretty much all of my contacts there are coming from the fashion and acting industry... and those include models, actors, photographers, makeup artists, designers etc.

I have a group on Facebook for casting calls in the NYC Tri-State area, which is by far the largest of its kind with over 23,000 members... so, making contacts within that community just happens organically...