Spam PM

[JayC]

Hi. I don't know if anyone else got this, but I just received a spam message in my PM inbox. The user goes by the name Stephanie. I think it may be a spambot. The message has to do with Buddhism. Here is the message:

Hi,I'm new here, how's it going?"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein---Stephaniehttp://www.psend.com/users/Stephanie

This is the first time I have got a spam message in a PM inbox on any of the forums I frequent. The spambots must be getting better...

 

[OhioTC18]

As far as I can tell, there is no member by that name, unless "she" got deleted already.

 

[Jim_S]

As far as I can tell, there is no member by that name, unless "she" got deleted already.

She is a member, just doesn't show because she hasn't posted.

Jim

 

[California]

Strange.

I put 'psend.com spam' in Google and found other forums got hit too.

One of the Google hits had psend in their list of '25 most notorious spam hosts'.

'psend.com stephanie spam' found 65 hits.

Best comment I've seen so far, on a programmer's forum:

Buddhist spam? BUDDHIST spam??! What is the world coming to?

Actually I learned something from the Einstein quote, it improves my understanding about why people like Buddhism.

But Buddhist evangelism via spam???? I think Stephanie kinda missed the whole point.

 

[olcowhand]

I got it too and forwarded to Doc just now. Just now found this post.

 

[Jim_S]

There may be a few more pm's out there folks will find when they visit. When I went to the control panel she was logged on and she was sending a pm.

Jim

 

[ghautz]

I got one sent about 5 hours ago.

I would expect people should have better things to do with their time.

 

[PaulChristenson]

They have hit most major forums...Congrats NTT has reached the major leagues...

 

[vansimplement]

Yup, I got one at some point during the weekend. She's hitting up the wrong person though. I happen to like a little dogmatic theology every now and again!

 

[Doc]

Jim Slagle was on the ball and did the honor of banning her for good. (Thanks Jim!)

Anytime you get an unsolicited PM about stuff like that let myself or the mods know and who ever is around will take the appropriate action.

Like Paul said, guess we hit the big times!

 

[billbill1]

I got excited at first-with a young woman sending me an email!! Disappointed again.