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419 scammers p.m.

Discussion in 'YachtForums Yacht Club' started by geriksen, Feb 8, 2010.

  1. geriksen

    geriksen Senior Member

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    I just got a pm from a 419 Scammer "Fatima Mohammed". It came through the YF forum system.
    Just a heads up. I am sure Carl and crew will take care of it. This has always been a pretty clean site.
  2. PropBet

    PropBet Senior Member

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    Best to PM Carl in case he mistakenly passes this thread up or misses it in his daily scan.
  3. SeaEric

    SeaEric YF Historian

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    I forwarded a PM to Carl this morning by e-mail. I'm certain that he will take swift and appropriate action.
  4. geriksen

    geriksen Senior Member

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    thanks, I could not find Carl's username so I sent a message to YF admin

    the message came from fatimah225
  5. Kevin

    Kevin YF Moderator

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    The user has already been removed from our membership. I know Carl works very hard at screening each member profile as they sign up, but I guess they're getting better at making "respectable" looking profiles to get past the check.
  6. YachtForums

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    Thanks to everyone who alerted me. Some of these new spammers are slippery little suckers. One got through a few days ago and sent a half-dozen PM's. Today, a new one sent about 20 PM's before I noticed it. It happened in the span of about 10 minutes. I try to be vigilant, but I'm not always behind the keyboard or observing the control panel.
  7. walkinginshadow

    walkinginshadow Member

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    Nice work !
    I know how is hard work to find the bad ones.