We recommend “Only My Friends” ? Time To Get Serious About Spam To help prevent spam from entering your feed, you can adjust your settings to determine who can send you Snaps. While we expect to minimize spam, it is the consequence of a quickly growing service. In response to the deluge of complaints fired at Snapchat, the company released a statement that said the team is working on resolving the issue, and dismissed the notion that it was in any way related to the Find Friends hack. In the past three days, I have received seven spammy snaps, four consisting of topless women, one featuring diet pills, one advertising male enhancement, and one selling fake Rolexes. Spam has seemingly increased on Snapchat since its big hack. Until recently, Snapchat has had an allure of privacy not only is the service built on the idea that your private moments will disappear, but it’s also exclusively a messaging service, meaning snaps sent and received only go to a certain number of people before they evaporate.īut when Snapchat was hit with a privacy breach due to a flaw in the app’s API that exposed the Finds Friends feature, an anonymous hacker leaked millions of Snapchat phone numbers and the security of the application came under fire. The black bars have been added for decency. I've received this snap four times since Friday. While most of the spam snaps I receive are of a pornographic nature, I’ve also begun receiving ads for weight loss pills and other unsavory products. But the Snapchat spam doesn’t stop there. This has happened a number of times, and while it’s usually a different username, the snap is almost always identical. On Sunday, I received a snap and contact request from “arabel414,” who, in text overlaid on her bosom, told me to check out a website allegedly containing leaked Snapchats of a similar nature. This is a serious problem, and anyone who has used the ephemeral messaging service Snapchat can surely commiserate with me. I’ve received one too many pictures of boobs.