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I did a cursory search for similar topics & came up empty--forgive me if I missed something along the way.

But I know that we're supposed to be frugal with our private messaging here in this forum, and I fear it's being put to less-than-aboveboard purposes.

Not long ago I stumbled across some guy's blog detailing a rather involved scam into which someone was trying to lure him: his correspondent was in an African nation, had inherited a whole lotta money, and was looking to invest it in the US. She repeatedly solicited him for personal information, allegedly in order to place funds on deposit in his bank account...

I haven't been hit up for any sensitive personal info yet, but I have received a PM that is definitely the initial overture in a very similar setup.

I'm not really sure what to do about it, but I figured reporting it here was the place to start. This individual is certainly not registered here for her love of things Disney and probably ought to be banned. If you like, Luke, invade my inbox for further details: hers is the only message currently there and I won't feel my privacy the least compromised.

Actually, if you could just tell me who the user is, I'll happily ban or delete them ASAP. Feel free to do it in an e-mail if you don't want to say here, though I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't.

And thank you for letting me know about this. Every day I delete a number of users who have signed up merely to build links to pill and pornography websites. (This explains the major discrepancy between number of registered users and the user numbers assigned.) I never understand why whatever robotic methods they are signing up with don't just give up when they see how ineffective this is. But if there are PM shenanigans going on, I don't know about those and need to be alerted. So thanks!

For the most part, requiring activation via an e-mail has prohibited spammers from being able to post and I'm fairly certain they aren't able to send PMs either, but some of these spammers <i>have</i> activated their accounts when I've removed them, so it is possible.

I had heard a good bit of discussion here about what is & isn't acceptable PM behavior, but I hadn't heard of anything quite like this...

princess_60 (who joined on April Fools' Day) would be the one.

And thanks again for your diligence in making this a fun place to come.

Thanks. "She" has been banned. The profile should have tipped me off, but I've been focusing on the website link which often triggers my spam-dar.