Horsetan Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I was somewhat peturbed to receive the following by PM just now from a RMWeb Forum subscriber named "doris2014", who I note has no posts to his/her name, and may have joined the Forum only for spamming purposes - possibly with the intention of committing some sort of advance fee fraud or similar scam. PM reads as follows: "Hello Friend I saw you Profile and I found it very interesting, please could write me at my private email ( mrsgomesdoreen2014@gmail.com ) so that i can tell you more about myself and also confidential things that will favour the both of us, thank you for your understanding and hope to hear from you soon. Do not fail to reply at my private email because you will benefit on what i have to tell you, God bless you.Doreenmrsgomesdoreen2014@gmail.com" Has anyone else received a similar PM in the last 24 hours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwenglish Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I have just recieved the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Yep I've had the same and just hit "report" on it, suggest ignoring it for the moment... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 No, but yours definitely sounds suspicious. The tone and content are classic e-scam territory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 It's on a 419 blacklist -- see: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22mrsgomesdoreen2014%40gmail.com%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-beta&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=b24yVIXjFNSZ1AWo4IGgDw Sign-up is probably from a human captcha-farm in the Far East or Russia. Usually kids paid 1p for every 500 captchas solved. Not much Andy can do about it apart from manually checking every new sign-up. Delete and forget is always the best response -- and here I am responding. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Yes I also received it, Damn you Doris I thought I was the only one for you!!I found it suspicious that Doris found my profile "Interesting" for a start....Suitably deleted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 I found it suspicious that Doris found my profile "Interesting" for a start.... Am tempted to ask what adjectives Doris used when describing stubby or boris of this parish? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 Am tempted to ask what adjectives Doris used when describing stubby or boris of this parish? In Stu's case it would be something like: "I'm told you do interesting things with cardboard. Please contact me..." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I didn't get one. Obviously not interesting enough Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 In Stu's case it would be something like: "I'm told you do interesting things with cardboard. Please contact me..." In the loo, at that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 Am tempted to ask what adjectives Doris used when describing stubby or boris of this parish? In Stu's case it would be something like: "I'm told you do interesting things with cardboard. Please contact me..." In the loo, at that! Yes, I got one - exactly the same as Horsetan's. Yes, I reported it. Yes, I hoped it was from Jamie Leigh Curtis ("True Lies"), or Mallard's Avatar (you know the one !) No, it didn't mention cardboard, or toilets, or Shepherds (or sheep !). Bit peeved to think I'm now classed in the same category as Boris..... (who I still suspect is Mod6)... Disgruntled / Disappointed of Cornwall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Disappointingly this happened whilst I was on the road just about to head into a meeting. As soon as I could I froze the spammers account and I've just been able to delete the messages sent (90+ of them), however some users will probably have had email notifications and then can't find their rewards from the delightful Doris when they arrive here. We very rarely suffer from spammers as a result of the CAPTCHA check at registration tied in with a human check via a model railway related question. Each PM was sent individually so this looks like an example of someone physically copy and pasting into individual PMs. Linked withe human check it makes me think it's a trouble-maker rather than a vanilla spammer - but the net result should be the same - don't click on the link etc. Sorry for the inconvenience but this is the first instance of this specific type in many years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 I had one of these in my LinkedIn account a couple of days ago. I should have been suspicious having a link request from a banker from Africa, and Lo and behold I was told one of my relatives was killed in a Chinese earthquake and I'd inherited $5 million. Deleted, reported. It seems as though email spam filters are working well, so fora and other social networking channels are their next line of attack. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I had TWO, one at 09.09 and one at 09.12, I phoned Andy just as he was going into a meeting and informed him, he must have acted immediately as her/ ? was frozen within minutes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2014 Bah, and their I was thinking someone wanted to talk to me ;p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thanks for quick reporting and also smart responding Andy. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted October 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2014 I still find it amazing that people must fall for this c**p, otherwise it wouldn't happen. I've been getting multiple CV's the last few days (not via RMweb, I hasten to add), just send your details & the jobs yours.. So own up, which of you 90 odd, replied to it? Thanks Andy for getting rid of it promptly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2014 Today I had to re-sign-in to RMweb again, preceded by a cookie warning while not having cleared any cookies from RMweb in the first place! (none at all, really) I also get this, occasionally, but put it down to the large number of different machines I use to access RMweb ( minimum of 6, sometimes more than one at the same time...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2014 Today I had to re-sign-in to RMweb again, preceded by a cookie warning while not having cleared any cookies from RMweb in the first place! (none at all, really) I am getting this a lot at the moment - I've had to sgn in a couple of times today and it was at least half a dozen times yesterday. Deleting the cookie does seem to sort things but the 'sort' isn't lasting all that well until it happens again. Problems with the software somewhere or is it at our end? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Problems with the software somewhere or is it at our end? I can't see any reason for it at this end, will speak to the server end and see if they have any ideas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I was somewhat peturbed to receive the following by PM just now from a RMWeb Forum subscriber named "doris2014", who I note has no posts to his/her name, and may have joined the Forum only for spamming purposes - possibly with the intention of committing some sort of advance fee fraud or similar scam. PM reads as follows: "Hello Friend I saw you Profile and I found it very interesting, please could write me at my private email ( mrsgomesdoreen2014@gmail.com ) so that i can tell you more about myself and also confidential things that will favour the both of us, thank you for your understanding and hope to hear from you soon. Do not fail to reply at my private email because you will benefit on what i have to tell you, God bless you. Doreen mrsgomesdoreen2014@gmail.com" Has anyone else received a similar PM in the last 24 hours? Yes; I've also had (not via RM, I should add), a spate of messages advising me that 'You have a voicemail awaiting you on Microsoft Exchange Server'. They'd be more convincing if they didn't use many different versions of our mail address, and if the link wasn't a PDF.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted October 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2014 Problems with the software somewhere or is it at our end? Hi Mike, Probably neither -- it is most likely problems with your internet service provider. The usual cause of this is that you have two cookies with the same name where you should have only one. The RMweb software keeps resetting one of them, but your browser keeps returning the other (wrong) one. Deleting all RMweb cookies will solve the problem until it happens again. The cause seems to be an internet congestion issue just at the moment the cookie is being set. That's why you get a sudden spate of them when your ISP is having troubles, and then it clears up for a while when they are not. regards, Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Shedman5 Posted October 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2014 Nothing from Doris for me here, though had one from a Lola last week on a tennis forum. Maybe her sister lol! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Nothing from Doris for me here, though had one from a Lola last week on a tennis forum. Maybe her sister lol! Or possibly brother, if you take Ray Davies' advice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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