PM Spam
 

Received the following spam email in my PM today and didn't see an easy way to tag it as such, so am reporting it here:
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Hey TJ,
It looks to me as if she just wanted to say hi to another new member. That quote seems to be just part of her signature, not a subliminal message or the like.
Hopefully I am not wrong, but if I am, Jarred or Gabe or Ron will point it out.
Taylor

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Don't think so. I did a web search on the url and it's been reported as spam (same message) on other sites. Also, this person has a "Posts:" counter of 0, so has never posted a message on this forum.

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i recieved the same thing what is it???

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Well...I'm wrong once again!

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Don't feel too bad. It's too cold to think straight. :ha:

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I got the message too. But I went to her link and it had some info on lucid dreaming which I found interesting. Definitively spam though.

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I got one to and forwarded it to MediaHound and he said he would take care of it. Looks like the user's account is gone but I still have the PM in my PM's.

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I got it as well. I just deleted it.
NanaNut2

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All taken care of now.

Perhaps we will install some feature to prevent this, we could make it so people need a post or two on the forums before they can use the PM system. There are ways to prevent this but it comes with a tradeoff...

Have a great evening everyone and take it easy.

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I got one, too. I was just trying to figure out how she had a join date of Dec 1969?!

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Hi Therese,
That strange date appears now only because she does not exist anymore. It would involve a lengthly explanation of computer language to tell you why, but the simple answer is it could be considered a glitch of sorts because she was deleted but some of her messages remained. Please disregard that join date...

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I joined here because I got a PM from her on another forum and it seemed strange. I googled and found this thread.Glad to know my spidey senses weren't wrong before I answered.

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Awesome! My very first post on this message board brought in a new member. :09:

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I got that message too, I just deleted it. I thought it was really odd, but shrugged it off. But Mediahound I think that's an excellent idea... it's not really much of a tradeoff, imo if it'll stem off some of that silly stuff. :02:

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Hopefully there's no way it could contain a virus or something, right?

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Not a chance, it was just someone sending messages to folks. She probably meant no harm just didn't realize that that's not customary here, or good netiquette.

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The point of the message is to earn whoever is sending the message $$$. Whoever sent the message will most likely get money for each person they refer to the site (which is most likely a scam).

Don't click on the link!

It could also be a way to rank higher on search engines.

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I, also, got this PM, at about the time this thread was active. Today, I got it again, but as a PM on the Aquarium forum.

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Yes its a robot going around the web plaguing a lot of forums at the moment.