me-barbie Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have about half a dozen private messages asking me to contact them because I seem like a nice person and they wish to discuss something important with me. Looks like our inboxes on the board are being spammed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimajo Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I got the same thing! I checked the boards to see if this was a real new member, but no. How do they get our personal emal addresses, while referring to greenleaf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalesq Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I did too. I reported it, and suggest you do too so that GL can track it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I did and Logan has taken care of it. There was no mention of my personal email address. Maybe it was a webbot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Holly, did you not get an email notice telling you that you had a message? I don't believe the spammer (I got and reported one, too) had access to our emails. When a message is posted via Greenleaf's PM system, it is the system that sends a notice to our personal email accounts, not the sender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 It's not the spammer who has our emails; I clicked to get an email notification from Greenleaf whenever I get a PM. I had at least a half dozen PMs from this AM's spammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbharrington Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I got the same thing early this morning, and I havent had a chance yet to see how to report it. Glad to know it has been taken care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannie Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Yes I got this same message this morning...and while I'm really glad it has been looked after, I can't help but wonder how "they" get this information to begin with, and what do they do once they have it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 As a member they log in and send the message, when the message is sent you get a notification from here, not from the "person" just a mere notification there is some activity awaiting you to see so tospeak. Good riddance to the one(s) behind the mass-PM sender! Hugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 All fixed - just a "robot" spammer that decided to mass-message everyone on the board. When I delete an account there's also an option to remove all of their sent/received PMs which I did also. They're crafty and get smarter all the time, so one will make it through now and then 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I had already gone through and deleted the six I had accumulated by 0430; thank you for purging any more. I noticed that the bot was also in the chat room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me-barbie Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Yeah, my reaction this AM when I checked my email was...suuuuuure.... delete delete delete delete.you get the picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueirishmoon Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I had it too when I just checked my email. If you can't be bothered to use correct English grammar and sentence structure, you are NOT a real person. Just kidding; I don't, of course, include people whose first language wasn't English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I think one of the administrators could go ahead and close this topic, I'm sure we're about done with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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