spam in PMs

[45Brit]

just got this shite in my PM box.. anyone else?

Hello sir,


Sorry for disturbing you.

I am Siva from India.26 years old male .I am also big fan of HD bikes. In India I love RE bullets. Bike riding is the joyful activity for me in this world. many times these MASTER MACHINES act as MASTER MEDICINES for me when feel like dying.

Now I am a blood cancer patient from past 2 years (Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ph+).I am taking treatment in CHIRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE in India.

I have spent so for nearly 50,000 US$. For my past treatment I got help form my company (where I worked), NGOs, friends, relatives and some good people.

But the decease is not cured and again I have to go for borne marrow transplant. Again this is the way to live for me. Presently I am taking DASATINIB tablet daily to maintain blood counts (3755 US $/month).

Since I came from poor family (father died in childhood) I could not afford my treatment expenses. Now I have some hearts who loving me, my degree and this cancerous body. I am not afraid about my death but I want to live at least for my family.

So I am contacting people like you for individual help. If you like to help me in any way….Give your contact e-mail ID, I’ll send my all details about my treatment/decease.

If you feel/hurt/disturbed about this letter..,

I humbly ask Apologise to you….

Thank you,
Siva.

[Tony G]

can't say i have !

[BaZa®]

Originally Posted by 45Brit

just got this shite in my PM box.. anyone else?

Rather than making out we are a crap site letting this happen


Give us a clue who sent it so we can ban the fucker!

We do our best when accepting new users the same as you a 'Guest' but sometimes the odd one slips through.

So name and shame and they will be booted out it's as simple as that, and BTW you could have just forwarded it on to me or Roger to save going WWW..

[Roger]

Search on "Siva" Baz. Banned. Email, user name and IP address added to a global spam database

[45Brit]

there was me, thinking mods could see PM boxes.. some sites it's embarrassingly obvious that they read at least some PMs. I did try and forward it but couldn't work out how to do it. The user name appears to be 'master machine' if I'm reading it right.

this site is actually pretty good for spam, it's the first time I've had any and the phone touts etc don't seem to get through; not like, say, Banjo Hang-Out where they are endemic.

as for the 'guest' thing, I am actually a real person ( if a somewhat grumpy and unsociable one at times ) and not hard to find if that's the sort of thing you really feel you want to do. I doubt if our Indian chum meets either definition.

[Roger]

The Mods can't read PM at all. Under exceptional circumstances, I can.

Two months ago, we started checking all new registrations against a Global anti-spam database that I signed up to. In that time we have declined over 2,500 registrations from know spammers.

[grbrown]

Originally Posted by Roger

.... we have declined over 2,500 registrations from know spammers.

Ye gods! What a sheltered life the rest of us lead....