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Kik is also the #1 on spam bots, seriously their amount of spam (scammer accounts) is worrying.

yep and this is why I killed it off. Srsly the amount of junk I recieved is ridiculous.

I mean, if it were actual "junk" (you get what I mean), I mighta be happy, but it's all "come to my private webcam site" kinda crap.

This is, maybe, why Whatsapp is so hugely successful: the cost of SMS/phone verification is too high for scammers.