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Received a spam personal message

Okell
Okell Posts: 2,838 Forumite
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edited 4 August 2023 at 12:08PM in Site feedback and Forum Help
As above - received yesterday.

An invitation to join him in a "business transaction" in his family mining business.

So spammers are attacking the forum from inside now?

Can the site team ban them ASAP?

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  • Robin9
    Robin9 Posts: 12,836 Forumite
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    @Okell  Click on report at the bottom of your thread
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  • MSE_Stephen
    MSE_Stephen Posts: 794 Community Admin
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    edited 4 August 2023 at 12:12PM
    Hi 

    Please could you report PM Spam to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com

    I've edited the title of this thread so as not to name the member being reported.

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  • p00hsticks
    p00hsticks Posts: 14,508 Forumite
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    edited 4 August 2023 at 5:00PM
    Robin9 said:
    @Okell  Click on report at the bottom of your thread
    That's not really an appropriate option though when the spam is received via a personal message.
    I suspect that I received the same spam message as @Robin9.
    I could see by clicking on their profile from within the message that the sender has since been banned, but I couldn't find any easy way of reporting it to the MSE team (I now know to e-mail the team as per the above post, but as the message has now disappeared entirely I assume that this particular user has been removed from the system). .

    There's no 'spam/report' options on a message as there is if you wish to report a post made on the forum.     
  • Okell
    Okell Posts: 2,838 Forumite
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    Robin9 said:
    @Okell  Click on report at the bottom of your thread
    Hi 

    Please could you report PM Spam to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com

    I've edited the title of this thread so as not to name the member being reported.


    Reporting it to the forum team was - of course - the first thing I did before posting it here...

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