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Debbie Woolf
Joined: 09 Feb 2009
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Location: Kent
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 10:44 Post subject: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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I have received 2 emails which look like it's from Fabre Minerals Forum but they are spam, the emails are identical to those sent from this site but the subject line is not on the list of topics ? If I block the emails from my account then I lose out on originals from this forum ??
Anyone else receiving these or any suggestions please.
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Les Presmyk
Joined: 06 Dec 2007
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Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 10:50 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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I have received a half dozen different spam solicitations. |
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ian jones
Joined: 29 Jul 2009
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Location: london
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 10:53 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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I've had half a dozen too! |
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Montanpark
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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Location: Mainz
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 10:57 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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me too,
not the first time that happened .. the spammers use auto-posting proggies if they can manage to get in (or some spammers register, post a few - fire and forget and then are kicked by the webmasters)
cheers
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Ed Huskinson
Joined: 15 Apr 2009
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Location: Kingman, Arizona
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 11:05 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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Yep. Me too. 'kin hackers!! _________________ La respuesta está en las rocas!! Estudiadlas!!
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Jordi Fabre
Overall coordinator of the Forum
Joined: 07 Aug 2006
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Location: Barcelona
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 11:08 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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Montanpark wrote: | .. the spammers use auto-posting proggies if they can manage to get in (or some spammers register, post a few - fire and forget and then are kicked by the webmasters) |
Although Montanpark is absolutely right, I think that what happened this time is that an individual (Josh....) published 6 different topics in the Forum in a very short time, all of them very long, and not related at all with the Forum topics, but with healthy, stress, etcetera... Of course when I saw them I deleted them immediately and I also deleted "Josh" of our users list, but everybody got the announce of this six emails because when someone publish a message the system send the announce immediately and when you try reach these message you can't, because them were deleted.
Sorry for it, but is complicate to avoid spammers or individuals publish things in FMF if they do it manually (non robots).
As the long-time members know, this Forum is basically clean, but time to time some undesired visitor can disturb us..
If in the future the problem increases, we will execute some actions against it. _________________ Audaces fortuna iuvat |
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Granate
Joined: 30 Jul 2009
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Location: Madrid
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 11:35 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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Debbie Woolf wrote: | I have received 2 emails which look like it's from Fabre Minerals Forum but they are spam, the emails are identical to those sent from this site but the subject line is not on the list of topics ? If I block the emails from my account then I lose out on originals from this forum ??
Anyone else receiving these or any suggestions please.
Thanks
Debbie |
Yes I received also.
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Debbie Woolf
Joined: 09 Feb 2009
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Location: Kent
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 11:39 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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Jordi, thank you for clarifying this situation. |
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James Catmur
Site Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: Cambridge
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 12:37 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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I read a couple of his messages before Jordi deleted them, and sent Jordi a quick email to tell him about them. Then he acted and they have vanished! So the site is kept clean, which I appreciate. They were of zero interest
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nurbo
Joined: 23 Sep 2008
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Location: Lancashire
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 13:04 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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I got 5 of them disguised as forum posts, I wonder who responds to this kind of advertising, personally I delete spam immediately and wouldnt dream of following the links and buying the things they try to sell. and Id bet noone else who uses this forum would buy this stuff either, it seems a strange, rude and intrusive way of trying to sell things, but I guess someone must respond to it or they wouldnt bother. |
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Gail
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
Posts: 5839
Location: Texas, Lone Star State.
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Posted: Oct 05, 2009 14:56 Post subject: Re: Anyone receiving spam ?? |
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And this "Josh" fellow said he was from Texas no less! GRRR! |
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