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Jake62


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Hey Howard,

I woke to check email, this board, etc., with a new message from "Celinesky." After reading this message, it's obviously spam.  Can you assist with this matter?



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We got the same message.  She must be very desperate! smile



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I got the same PM and it is uncomfortable to think the same creep is also in the general email postings unrelated to the forum.
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Same here.


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Max Signal


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same here , I cut and paster for all to enjoy

 

 

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celinesky  

I am really interested in you,
Hello my dear, I am so happy to be dropping these few wards of lines to you,I really became happy when I noticed about you through your profile at rv-dreams.activeboard.com and that what warranted me now to be dropping these few wards of lines to you in order that you might know as well.But it will be a thing of honor to me if only you and I will became friends so that we can be able to put things in order. Dear I am looking for a man to be called my friend,love and to make things together happens in these life. You can as well became my friend despite the fact that you are far but does not means that two can not join together if only the spirit of God is there.I really need to have or create relationship with you if only you can hope so as well.Then please kindly contact me to my mail address so that I can give you my picture in order that you might know me welling. celinefred17@yahoo.com is my mail address and I eagerly wait to be reading from you soonest.
Celine.



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cherylbrv


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Me too! I suspect everyone signed up on the forums got it. Question is how did they get into the system? Even if this person had access to log into the forums, who would spend that much time individually sending a private message to every single member? Or is there a way to send a broadcast message in private mail?

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I received it too.  



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Howard


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Sorry everyone.

Unfortunately, anyone can sign up for the forum.  There are some security measures in place, but if they complete the registration via their email confirmation, they can become active without approval.

I have deleted the user and banned them from the Forum.  We try to get these taken care of as soon as possible.

In your Profile Settings, there is a setting "Email visible to other members?"  If the setting is yes, registered members can see it.

Sorry for the inconvenience.



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The spam was sent to me by private message in the forum



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PIEERE


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smile Thanks Howard for banning of Celine. Recieve in both Gmail spam and private forum messages. disbeliefI never answer the person or business if I am not positive of if it is legit. Recieved one the other day from "VERIZON" billing me for 900.00+ dollars and I hold no accounts with Verizon, looked very similiar to the official website.

    We need to be very alert to these con-artists! They will step to any level to scam us!   Thanks for keeping this forum clean!   Pieere



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Celinesky banned?!?!? And to think we were just getting to know each other.....banned.gif



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MaryBee


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Howard,

I had my settings set for email to: NO, and don't accept and still got the spam PM message. Go figure.

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rvingft


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Me too ... just got hit with this nut ...March 28th ... hope she was banned AFTER she PM'd me .... my direct reply to her (him)? would not be as polite as it is here.

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It happens so rarely here it doesn't really bother me. I just delete them and move on.:)

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The culprit became a member early this morning and we deleted them as soon as we heard about the first spam private message.

Unfortunately, it got through to several people.

Now, some folks got what they thought was a spam message to their email.  In fact, that was a notification message sent from the Forum software.  Most members have their settings set up so that an email is sent from the Forum software to notify them a private message has been received inside the Forum.

So, I'm not aware that the spammer sent a message to email accounts.  But the Forum software probably did send a message about the PM to email accounts.

Hope that helps clarify a little more and again, we're sorry for the inconvenience.



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Howard, I'm on another forum (not an RV one) where members can't pm anyone but moderators or admin until they have 25 posts. Yes, sometimes it causes a small amount of inconvenience. But if the person is legit it really doesn't take long to get the 25 posts, and spammers rarely do that. Now maybe that's not something you would want to do, or maybe the software doesn't allow for it, but I thought I'd mention the idea for your consideration. (Don't I sound nice and pompous, lol smile)



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snowman8


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Same here Howard....We all know nobody here wants me and let alone call ME "my love" from this site.....Silly Celinsky..... but there was two of them from seperate pepple.....one we've stated has SPAMMED before.....just so you know......

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