I just received a spam mail from a user called (account deleted), asking me to e-mail them back. Naturally, once you've done that you've given them your email address and there's no taking it back. I'm thinking that some people will fall for this.
Contents of PM:
Ruth.
Hi dear,
My name is Ruth, I am very interested to know you well, I came across your profile today at <www.wikidot.com> lovely site and became so much exited on your profile, Please dear, If you don't mind and you really need to know whom i am, kindly contact me back directly to my e-mail contact mail box,which is <email-address-removed>,so that it will enable me to tell you more about my self including my pictures,
Thanks for your cooperation.
Ruth.
We need a 'report spam' link, which will send the PM off to Wikidot admins to look at and delete the user if necessary.
Preferably, all existing PMs from the user should be blocked somehow as well e.g. "Wikidot has deleted this user for spamming, and all PMs from the user have been blocked for security reasons." as the new PM body.
Wow, just got 2 more from the same user. Killed the spam account, but it's not fully deleted…
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Turns out I actually have 7 PMs from them… >_>
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And I thought Ruth was genuinely interested in me
;-) turns out she's not so picky.
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Haha ;-)
Well, it seems that they've found a way to easily mail multiple users… because I find it hard to imagine them sending so many mails to so many people (probably not just you and me) … by hand.
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I got one too but it went the way of all such spam, particularly as she wasn't offering to split $47 million dollars with me from over invoiced contracts.
Curiously (and something I found rather funny), when I was working at the British High Commission in Nigeria part of my role was controlling the budgets and finance. In 2002 a set of spam emails went out which were purportedly from me and which told the recipient that I was holding several million dollars for them after a relative had died in a car crash in Abuja. The recipient just needed to provide their name, copy of passport and bank account number to an email address that certainly wasn't mine. We passed this on to the British and Nigerian police but I doubt anything happened.
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