PM's from Spammers?????

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  • 03-29-2008, 02:20 AM
    thekid
    PM's from Spammers?????
    In the last couple of weeks I have got a couple of suspicious looking PM's from members who are always newbie's with 0 posts who always leave another e-mail address to respond to rather than just reply to the PM. I don't want to seem unfriendly but the one I got yesterday has such bad/fractured English I can't believe it is legitmate. Anyone else getting these??
  • 03-29-2008, 03:08 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by thekid
    In the last couple of weeks I have got a couple of suspicious looking PM's from members who are always newbie's with 0 posts who always leave another e-mail address to respond to rather than just reply to the PM. I don't want to seem unfriendly but the one I got yesterday has such bad/fractured English I can't believe it is legitmate. Anyone else getting these??


    Please forward them to me or give me their user names and I ban them. There is a thread in the beginning of General Audio where I mention this problem and ask anyone who receives them to send them my way and I will send them away.
  • 06-24-2008, 01:18 PM
    atomicAdam
    JohnMichael are you still getting a lot of these -

    I can see about getting some time w/ the engineer to help curb this problem.

    Thanks
    -adam
  • 06-24-2008, 04:56 PM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by atomicAdam
    JohnMichael are you still getting a lot of these -

    I can see about getting some time w/ the engineer to help curb this problem.

    Thanks
    -adam

    Adam I have been watching new members and if the first they do is PM members I have been banning them for a while, so not much reported.

    Blogs are full of spam but I am unable or unaware of how to delete spam posts in blogs. We also get spam in classifieds which I can take care of that problem. We also have new members including spam links in their signatures. They respond ot a post in an odd way and their link is shown such as Free TV

    Spam, spam, spam does not have much spam in it.
  • 07-01-2008, 02:40 PM
    bobsticks
    It wasn't an invitation.
  • 07-01-2008, 04:26 PM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bobsticks
    It wasn't an invitation.



    At least it was not private.