Is it just me? Or does it seem to anyone else like Yahoo Messenger is the reigning king of porn spam?

I have accounts on all four of the major IM clients these days. My primary is MSN Messenger mainly because it does the best job of striking a balance between privacy and open access. For ICQ, Yahoo, and AIM I rely on Trillian to connect. Invariably, I have to set Yahoo Messenger to ignore anyone who isn’t already part of my contact list because I will get spammed constantly by the same porn ads over and over again.

The spam itself consists of a message popping up with a random female name with a random number after it saying “Hi! (smilie face) Are you there?” To which any kind of response will result in an invitation to go see supposed pics of the female at some site thats linked in the message. It’s obvious it’s a bot and the randomness of both the name and the number after it ensures that simply blocking that individual account won’t prevent them from spamming you repeatedly in the future. The only option is to block messages from anyone not in your contact list which totally defeats the point in my mind. Once in a blue moon I’ll get a porn spam from my ICQ or AIM accounts, but those are rare enough it doesn’t bother me. I have yet to receive a single bit of porn spam from my MSN account. Because of this, I’ll only allow Courtney to have an MSN Messenger account. It’s bad enough that I have to put up with spam in my inbox, I don’t need it showing up in my instant messaging program too.