• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

PM Spam??

Yeah, I had the same thing on a couple of other sites. One thing I did was to increase the amount of time between PMs and emails to stymie this sort of spam attack.
 
Dennis Hultman said:
I can pull it up. Is the name in the name field signed Mel Parsons?
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Dennis' magic is strong - I tried to find buddha as soon as I read the initial post, and wasn't able to.
 
I got one too.... here's a screen shot of it....
personalmessage.jpg

I just checked that email address today, and the personal message wasn't there.... I don't know if one of the mods. manually deleted it, or when the account is removed it removes the PM, but I didn't have a PM from him in my fauna account....
 
I deleted all the PMs he sent. There is an admin function that allows me to do that when spammers take that route to contact people.
 
What is the purpose of such a spam message?
I don't think I got one but from the description I'm having trouble figuring out what the point of it was.

Most spam is trying to sell something or spread a virus. Doesn't look like it though.
 
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