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slogan_jim


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Do you guys ever get any spam private mesages?

I got one today, related to a post I made and got to admit it's kind of creepy.

Does anyone else get these?



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Mattie


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I have never gotten on on this board, but I've gotten some on an unrelated board I used to post on.  There were so many to so many people that finally the board operators had to do something drastic to shut them down (I'm not sure what).



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slogan_jim


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Because I got this message in broken english saying something to the effect of 'I want to be your special friend' here is my e-mail. It said the poster was only a member for 5 hours and had 0 posts.

Anyone else?

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Debilyn


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I did too Jim a pm and four white board messages.



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Weird and no.

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Weird and yes...I got two from the same person "Marthatolove".  I deleted them both and don't figure she would really want any part of the pre-program JerryF.    Hmmmm maybe it would send her into program herself...you figure?   smile



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Debilyn


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I did some searching around, it looks like she is one of those cons in Ghana. They do this thing to get you to send her money....

deb and here I was so happy to see a pm and four white board messages...sigh



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DavidG


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 Short answer, Jim- no, thankfully.

 

Have had similar approaches in other parts of the net...

comes with the territory, sadly...

 

-D.



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