Weird PMs...

Post by **JimK** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:19 pm

I received yesterday a PM from a newish user (joined Dec 06, no posts) saying:
"have you a brief on this moggi please"

To which I replied (in summary) "Eh?"

Another PM arrived from our mystery friend today saying:
"is morris for sale ? if so have you any details"

To me, this seems fishy for a number of reasons:
1) There's little attempt at punctuation and the language is third year primary school at best.
2) I haven't seen anybody write "moggi" as opposed to "moggy".
3) I'm not selling my car(s) and have given no indication that I might.

What do you think? Am I being
a) paranoid?
b) reasonably cautious?
b) unforgiving of newbies with an utter lack of langauge skills?

Opine.

Post by **grahamt7** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:25 pm

Jim,

Is it worth Pm-ing a moderator, or the administrator? Muse be traceable...possibly worth nipping before he/she becomes a pain.

Post by **JimK** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:31 pm

I was wondering if the next message will say:

"Hello. I am Milton Abamwe, General Manager of the Central Bank of Lagos, and I am interested in your moggi. I will pay 50 zillion American dollars, please arrange shipping."

If a mod doesn't see this I'll mention it, but probably no need to do anything yet.

Post by **ben739** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:44 pm

I have gotten them as well, saying I have been selected as a winner of some morris minor charity fund. please provide address,etc. i deleted it, and assumed mod's would ban user

Post by **Chris Morley** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:07 pm

I would say you are very sensible to be cautious Jim. The lack of posts being a dead giveaway.

i deleted it, and assumed mod's would ban user

Ben, did you tell any of the mods about the post & the identity of the sender? We have no way of seeing your messages.

Post by **Peetee** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:38 pm

Some time ago I noticed at the bottom of the column marked main menu it says 'you are logged on as peetee'. below this 'you have 2 private messages'.

This takes me to a separate are to the private message area (link next to 'logout' above this message column) and the messages mean nothing to me - either sender or content. I raised this with Cam and he couldn't shed any light on the matter.

Post by **Onne** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:41 pm

I too have seen that, seems to be a ghost version of the site

I sent myself a PM that way, and noticed it the next day

Post by **Kevin** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:15 pm

i deleted it, and assumed mod's would ban user

As Chris said none of us can see pm`s and Cam is the only one who can remove a user Moderators can only Moderate.