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Website for 'beautiful people' hit by virus that allowed ugly applicants to sign up
A social networking site for 'beautiful' people has been hit by a Shrek virus which allowed tens of thousands of ugly applicants to sign up. Members of BeautifulPeople.com must pass a strict rating stage where existing users vote on whether someone is attractive enough to be accepted into the online community. But this screening process was brought down last month, allowing anyone to join, regardless of their looks. Owners today apologised to more than 30,000 unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and subsequently banished.'We got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting,' managing director Greg Hodge said. Read More...