Has your online social status been blowing with friend requests lately? Requests from suspicious characters like a male Triathlete named April or someone that just made friends with 46 other people? Are you or your friends getting spammed with ads for things like cheap sunglasses? If you or your friend(s) are, it’s likely due to someone accepting a friend request from a cyclist spammer.

Check out some of the culprits (from my personal experience), and see what you can do to help eliminate this…

Since cyclists are such a chummy bunch (and we all kinda look alike when suited up), Spammers are posing as cyclists and targeting real cyclists by sending them friend requests. Many of these are from overseas, but regardless, they’re finding their way into our online social-circle and posting spam on our timeline. It’s an almost impossible thing for Facebook to police before it’s happened and reported so it’s going to be up to us and our actual friends to be more aware.

Here are some things you can do, and PLEASE… spread the word! (especially to those “you know whos” you keep seeing accept the fraudulent requests).