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Originally Posted by Furious_Male
SPIM like that has been around in many different forms since 1997. Its not new or original although some of the bots have gotten more sophisticated.
Your friends best bet is to check his privacy settings on his messenger programs and block uninvited users.
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SPIM is far less sophisticated than you may think. It's really not hard at all to ccreate your own simple chatbot like this for any of the major IM providers if you have had a push in the right direction. Even the most braindead person canhave thisworking with 15-20 minutes of reading.
Though there are people who have introduced some extremely advanced IM bots working off markov chains or rendtions of the old Eliza bots, the one you are seeing in this example is super simple...