One of the big stories in Apple’s recent announcements was a new social network based in iTunes called Ping.

It’s probably early to draw too many conclusions about Ping, but according to Chet Wisniewski at Sophos one thing is clear: they didn’t think too long about comment spam on the service: “……less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams.“

So I signed up for Ping myself and followed a few of the people Ping recommended to me. Seconds later I found my first comment spam:

Wisniewski: “Coincidentally, the most common spam on Ping at the moment targets Apple itself. The attacks are nearly identical to survey spams we have blogged about on Facebook, Google and Twitter.” Obviously this agrees with my experience.

He also notes that it’s trivial to create fake accounts on Ping since there’s no hard authentication. Techcrunch also notes this phenomenon, pointing out that while Facebook and Apple are spatting about Ping, a fake Mark Zuckerberg is signed up for the new service.

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