freebies scam: warning too all

Mr_Humperdinck · 28 July 2007 at 10:46PM

Edna_Bucket wrote: »

Would you provide some evidence rather than "clues" please?

Are these the people you refer to?

http://www.jellyfish.co.uk/clients.php

If so, once again, what is your evidence that they are spamming here? And why would they?

A quiz is more fun though

this is punkrjb's post I was refering to

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5796564

here's the evidence

Edna_Bucket_2 · 28 July 2007 at 11:57PM

Very interesting, and I'll have a look at this at more leisure later on tomorrow.

To be fair though, if they are "invading" - they appear to be doing so in areas of MSE that I have never ever read - and I suspect many don't read.

That's the nub of it, isn't it? MSE is so large these days that people don't cover much more than their own personal areas.

You seem to have it in for the BGs a bit too, but these are unpaid folk who wouldn't necessarily pick up on this sort of thing when they "pop in" or whatever they do, to tidy up. They are not full time policemen.

In those circumstances, would it not have been kinder to send your suspicions to Abuse, so that something could have been done?

Poppycat · 29 July 2007 at 1:19AM

I agree with Edna, good work there, if I am suspicious and I have caught quite a few out before I just reported them along with relevant threads, I even got thanked once by a spammer, lol who owned up and fair cop etc.

Edna_Bucket_2 · 2 August 2007 at 8:48AM

Favourite words and phrases from the spamming pond life:

...but worth it if it works out free or close to it!

Avail of...

Feel free to add more!

Edna_Bucket_2 · 2 August 2007 at 11:26AM

Poppycat wrote: »

We also have a poster named john1975 who judging by his posting counting is a spammer...

You might want to have a look back to see who started this very thread, old friend?

Might be an idea to get the whole content of this thread moved across to a new one in the circumstances? If he and his posts get deleted at some point, this will also all be lost as he has the first post!

Poppycat · 2 August 2007 at 11:33AM

Thanks I did mention above "EDIT Oh dear its the OP, lol." admittedly after I posted first

john1975_2 · 2 August 2007 at 11:38AM

WoW you guys need to get out more, all my freebies i have posted i found on !!!!!!.uk which i am a member of their newsletter.

i wish i owned the above domain name/s :rolleyes: :rotfl:

Poppycat · 2 August 2007 at 11:40AM

LOL but so do you, you been online longer than I have. Too much of a coincidence all these domain names you keep posting are owned by the same person, one of them is now added to the web filter by looks of it to block it

Funny its always spammers that come up with "you need to get out more" or "get a life"

john1975_2 · 2 August 2007 at 12:26PM

LOL "Too much of a coincidence" :rolleyes:

i dont know why i need to explain myself to troublemakers but so everyone else knows i get free - stuff .co.uk newsletter 2 to 3 times a week with freebie offers i search on MSE to see if the freebie has been posted if not i make a post, so if you are banning domain names that are owned by the same person ok but saying i own the domain name/s because i didnt find it on MSE when doing a search thats just stupid

Edna_Bucket_2 · 2 August 2007 at 4:28PM

john1975 wrote: »

...i dont know why i need to explain myself to troublemakers...

The fact that the very first reaction you make to this is to describe the one person, Poppycat, who does more individually than anyone else to help keep MSE free of spammers and scamsters, as a "troublemaker" possibly says more about you than anyone else john?

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