Just had a very strange PM.... Dodgy? 24 August 2008 at 12:10PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Site Feedback 10 replies 596 views

DwainDibley

I've just had a PM from a new member with no posts saying "Is this your thread?" and a link to what appears to be a MSE thread but takes you to a completely different address (Which just has '!!!!!!' in it). It didn't show and said 'page not displayed' so hopefully it didn't work. The member's ID is 'birthday01'.

Is this some sort of scam, or has it installed something unsavoury on my machine? I'm just running a virus scan and a spyware scan to be on the safe side, so far they've not found anything.

robpw2

sounds odd lol i would suggest that it was a spam pm

Incisor

DwainDibley wrote: »

I've just had a PM from a new member with no posts saying "Is this your thread?" and a link to what appears to be a MSE thread but takes you to a completely different address (Which just has '!!!!!!' in it). It didn't show and said 'page not displayed' so hopefully it didn't work. The member's ID is 'birthday01'.

Is this some sort of scam, or has it installed something unsavoury on my machine? I'm just running a virus scan and a spyware scan to be on the safe side, so far they've not found anything.

tip: when you get a pm, click on the username and check out the users number of posts. If it is 0, then delete the mail. I had one from this moron too.

Edinburghlass_2

I had it too and have reported it, just delete the pm. The reason for the !!!! means the website is banned on MSE.

DwainDibley

That's a bit of a relief, I was worried it might be a site that installed something nasty on my machine! I'll delete it now

Burlesque_Babe

I had the same but hovered and saw the !!! and have deleted.

Lynsey76

I had it too. Nasty spammers :mad:

Love your name DwainDibley

DwainDibley

I normally hover the mouse over links I'm not sure about, but didn't this time! Think that's my warning to be more careful in the future.

Glad you like my name Lynsey76, I did want to call myself AceRimmer.... but that has another connotation....

LadyMorticia

I had the exact same PM too. =/

xx

QQuaver

Me too:mad:

superscaper

I feel left out. I didn't get one. Gosh even spammers won't talk to me.