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 Posted 11:56 AM 1/29/2010 Is anyone else getting this spam message: You have just received a new message from Kate Love. Or this other message that I received just after the first one: You have just received a new message from Kate. Hello my dear.
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Posted 12:07 PM 1/29/2010
Unfortunately, yes. Both profiles contain the same ridiculous wording. I say both, and any other memberships like this one get the BOOT immediately.
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Posted 2:03 PM 1/29/2010 I think a lot of us received the same crap. |
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Posted 3:20 PM 1/29/2010
Hey, look at mine :)
Hello Josh K., You have just received a new message from Kate Love. Hello my dear. My name is kate, i saw your profile today at(www.outdoorsclub.org) and i became intrested so please i will like you to send email back through my email address: (kate_aliyu@yahoo.com). pls i will like you to send me your email address so that i will tell you more about my self and also my picture you to know who i am .hope you understand.thanks.And i will like you to contact me trough my email adress(kate_aliyu@yahoo.com) Am waiting to see your lovely reply soonest. Miss kate. |
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Posted 7:15 AM 1/30/2010
I got same too. The person is claming to be from West Africa but the emails were sent from Illinois. Some kind of a scam. If you do reply to email she sends a picture and a sob story...
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Posted 9:38 AM 1/30/2010
It's too bad there isn't a way to to filter this kind of crap out before it happens. By my count, this person or persons, just created their 3rd profile two hours ago. Lee and Kelly's advice is best, report and block. And of course, don't responed to any of it.
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Posted 10:14 AM 1/30/2010 Tim, I think the list of "Features and Capabilities" in SocialEngine provides a solution to this SPAM problem. I believe you can take advantage of either Email address verification or Automatic "CAPTCHA" images, or both. I doubt whether "Kate" is using real e-mail addresses, and if he/she/it is, then CAPTCHA should prevent the SPAM from being generated automatically.
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