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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:36 PM
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Real Name: Rob Preddy   Age: 37   Gender: Male  
Location: Birmingham
 
2009: 4 miles
Week: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Year: 15.53 miles, 2 hrs 34 mins
Private Messages Spam?

today i have received 2 private messages from a member called "aaa3705" who it appeared only joined today.

here is the message:

hi dear:

i am a postgraduate from Birmingham City University. recently, i am doing some research about running shoes.

so i need a interview for my primary research.

i think you are very suitable for my project.

so if you are not very busy. could you please receive my interview? i really need this interview. please don't refuse my very soon.

this is my email xuwei3705@msn.com

best wishes

ronniew

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now i do have a feeling that this may be sent as a phishing email. i'm sure someone who is a post-grad student could speak better english than that so just to warn people not to reply to these emails as they could probably be used as phishing
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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:37 PM
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Real Name: Dave   Age: 35   Gender: Male  
Location: Bolton
 
Week: 13.11 miles, 2 hrs 26 mins
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got the same one yesterday and reported it as spam.
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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:52 PM
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Location: Warwick, The Shire
 
2008: 177 miles
2009: 1876 miles
Week: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Year: 161.99 miles, 22 hrs 28 mins
The offending user has been banned.

With things like this, you can use to report option to notify us.
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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:53 PM
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Location: Paignton
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2008: 459 miles
2009: 765 miles
Week: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Year: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
I will flag this up to bairy, I know he did take action on your report bats although it does not seem to have had the desired effect
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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:54 PM
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Location: Paignton
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2008: 459 miles
2009: 765 miles
Week: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Year: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
There you go, beasty beat me to it. Not always so quick to navigate the site on the iPhone.
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Old 31st Jan 10, 09:56 PM
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Real Name: Dave   Age: 35   Gender: Male  
Location: Bolton
 
Week: 13.11 miles, 2 hrs 26 mins
Year: 116.94 miles, 20 hrs 51 mins
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I will flag this up to bairy, I know he did take action on your report bats although it does not seem to have had the desired effect


could adam & eves pms still of been lurking around from yesterday?

i moderate on a vulletin forum and i know some of the ones we've banned/removed can still have their posts in the system, they just have a 'banned' under their username.


too answer myself, Yes. just checked my pm's and its still in there, or was needed a manual delete.

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Old 31st Jan 10, 10:11 PM
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Real Name: Chris   Age: 28   Gender: Male  
Location: Birmingham
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Week: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Year: 0.00 miles, 0 hrs 0 mins
Okay what happened is that aaa3705 signed up, PMd about 15 people with roughly the same message and went away.

bats reported it. I PMd Mr aaa and told him that mass PMing is rude and likely ineffective, and to make a post if he has a geniune need. He said sorry.

No new PMs have been sent since the original batch - though I realise some will only see them today - so I've unbanned him for now because his ip checks out to being in north birmingham and though I admit he does have appaling grammer, that alone isn't enough for me to conclude he is a scammer of some sort.

I'll keep a watch out, but until he does something actually wrong I'm not happy to put a ban on.


PS I don't delete PM messages even by banned or deleted users atm because most get notified there is a PM by email, and I don't want to cause confusion by fiddling with private messages.
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Old 31st Jan 10, 10:17 PM
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Real Name: Dave   Age: 35   Gender: Male  
Location: Bolton
 
Week: 13.11 miles, 2 hrs 26 mins
Year: 116.94 miles, 20 hrs 51 mins
cheers for the expliantion Bairy.
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Old 31st Jan 10, 10:57 PM
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Real Name: Erm, Rob   Age: 39   Gender: Male  
Location: Manchester
 
2008: 287 miles
2009: 406 miles
Week: 7.46 miles, 1 hr 17 mins
Year: 85.54 miles, 13 hrs 21 mins
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i'm sure someone who is a post-grad student could speak better english than that
You'd be surprised...
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Old 1st Feb 10, 11:27 PM
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2009: 74 miles
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I emailed him and he is Chinese I think. That may go some way to explaining the poor English. He hasn't actually emailed back yet with the interview. In my experience post graduate students tend to be a lot more efficient if you agree to help them, it's something I done a few times when I was at St Andrews.
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