Google Plus Circle Spamming?

[Daniel]

Has anyone else seen a recent rise in the number of Google Plus accounts (I hesitate to use the word "people") that have been adding you to circles?

I've received notices for about ten additions per day lately, and I can tell that they are all bogus. Most use a photo of an oriental girl that looks like it was torn straight from an advertisement. Others are the default silhouette or some other stock image.

I'm not sure what the deal is. What do they hope to accomplish? The accounts are so obviously garbage that there's no way I'm adding them to my own circles, so I'll never see whatever spam it is they plan to post. Do automation tools exist for G+? Perhaps they are targeting users of those utilities.

Whatever is going on, I suspect it's disgusting.

[lindymoone]

I got one notification that you had added me to your circles, Daniel. I said sure (but I never go there; opened up the account and maybe went back once)!

I suspect that what's going on is disgusting, too, but I'll probably never know...

[Daniel]

Apr 22, 2015 4:50:16 GMT -5 lindymoone said:

I got one notification that you had added me to your circles, Daniel. I said sure (but I never go there; opened up the account and maybe went back once)!

I suspect that what's going on is disgusting, too, but I'll probably never know...

I'm not very active on G+ either, which is one thing that makes the recent rash of circle adds suspicious. G+ "recommended" you as someone I might know, and since I do, I added you.

[Miss Terri Novelle]

I haven't had that yet, just a bunch of fake men with no other friends on my author Facebook profile. UGH

[Alan Petersen]

I haven't been yet, but I would imagine that they have G+ automation/bot type tools. Seems the shady developers create their slimy tools right away after something like G+ is launched. Pinterest was taken aback by all the bots that suddenly flooded Pinterest as soon as they began to get popular. It almost brought them down until they began to close down the ease of exploiting the site and closing the fake accounts.