These PM's are really getting annoying... - Orchid Board

Koiscale451 · #1 05-20-2008, 05:08 PM

This is the 1st one I've gotten but on all the other forums I'm on I've gotten this SAME one at least once:
"Hi,
I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein"

We identified it on another forum as a new type of spam, and whenever you try to respond it will say 'this member has not authorized private message ability' or something like that. But this message is really getting annoying....

same message...............EVERY time!

Just had to vent

ps- there was a web site link, but I'm afraid to click it because of viruses.

Ross · #2 05-20-2008, 05:09 PM

I've never gotten this. Not sure why you did. Marty?

kiki-do · #3 05-20-2008, 05:11 PM

Not sure what to say! I've never gotten one of these.

flhiker · #4 05-20-2008, 05:20 PM

WOW! Maybe you should report it to a Mod. and they may be able to get to the bottom of it. Good Luck

Dorothy · #5 05-20-2008, 05:30 PM

Yes do report it .. if it's coming out of the OB then the person had to have registered and it can be banned .. If you have a name .. let me know so I can fix their wagon ..

I did get that same spam but it came in my regular email today from some forum called Question_It from someone named aksanvig8861537. I didn't click on the site either .. I just deleted it ..

Dorothy · #6 05-20-2008, 05:32 PM

Dave, was their name Jessie by any chance? ..

cb977 · #7 05-20-2008, 05:38 PM

I've banned this "Jessie" person...ignore anything you may have gotten from them.

Our apologies to anybody who might have received their own PM.

Please contact one of the OB Staff as soon as you receive anything you are not quite sure about.

Thanks

jkofferdahl · #8 05-20-2008, 06:10 PM

I also got the PM from Jessie today. I'm on several other online forums, and this was a first for me.

Marty · #9 05-20-2008, 06:14 PM

Yes the annoying Jessie is a bot spammer that's going around the forums now. I was sure I banned him, but that was elsewhere I guess. I've deleted all PMs sent by him. Thanks Sue for banning him/her/it. By the way, anytime anyone gets stuff like this, feel free to issue an infraction for spamming and the user will automatically get banned. A thred is then generated in the moderator forum, so it will get looked at right away too.

sigh...forum trolls!

Koiscale451 · #10 05-20-2008, 07:36 PM

Thanks! Yep, it was Jessie with me too.