Meanwhile, a bunch of scam artists saw an opportunity for mischief. There were Twitter accounts claiming to have thousands of invitations to give away, websites with names that sounded like Google Wave asking for your email and Twitter information, and even individual users who put invites on eBay.
Some things to keep in mind as you look for an invite:
- It's still a good idea to put your name on the official Google Wave request form.
- Even if someone nominated you for an invite, it might take many days to receive it. You can't speed this process up. It all depends on how healthy the servers are and how many people are waiting ahead of you.
- Google isn't holding out on purpose. If the servers were stable enough for more users, they'd get more users. They haven't shied away from offering services that were still in development in the past.
- Nobody is giving away thousands of invites. Websites that promise this are likely trying to phish for your password by sending you a phony invite.
Official invitations come from Google and will point to an address on Google's servers, not an address that has "invite" or something other than Google in the domain name. It also won't be an address with three periods in the name, like www.google.invite_scam.com. In this made up example, invite_scam.com is the domain, which isn't owned by Google, and "www.google" is just a deceptive subdomain.
