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Google+ had a few hiccups this weekend when its notification system went haywire and began to fire out multiple emails about individual actions on the service. Our email inbox was clogged with 64 indentical messages and we saw reports of many other Google+ users with the same issues.
Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, appropriately headed for Google+ to explain how the glitch had occurred. For a company where servers seem to breed like rabbits, the answer was a little shocking: it seems Google+ ran out of disk space…
It was inevitable really. With Google+ invites still thin on the ground, spammers have swooped in to lure unsuspecting social networking fans into surfing to a site selling Viagra.
Sophos flagged up the scam which is spreading via emails that closely mimic the Google+ invite but, in fact, send you to a site called the Canadian Family Pharmacy.
As Sophos notes, the scam is pretty amateur right now but more sophisticated attempts at swindling would be Google+ users are no doubt in the works. Have you been hit with a fake Google+ invite? Click the headline and hop into the comments to let us know.
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