Where did you hear about this from? The reason I ask is because it is my understanding that these are profiles that have been deleted for any number of reasons (spam, inactive, or a friend who deleted their account) and they dont pose a threat to you or your system. I believe the reason they dont get removed from your list and show up as a red X is because myspace does not do regular database clean ups and there are more and more spam profiles daily and even hourly. M477h3w700142y has a great point, if you don't know the person then why do you want to add them as a friend? I know I get ALOT of