I wonder how many other members have gotten these kind of solicitations through this forum (message below). I was surprised but I guess all forums get infiltrated at some point. Needs to work on her(?) English a bit first before tackling kanji, though there's no reason she couldn't do both at the same time.

From my lovestruck admirer from afar:
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I guess you will not surprise to receive my mail? i saw your profile in koohii and it sound well.I will like us to exchange good relationship.I am vera by name,No kid and never marriage.I will like to hear from your opinion, you can contact me at this email address ( veradavid99@yahoo.com) so that i can send you my pictures and more introduction about myself. Have a good day and waiting to hear from you soonest.
Thank You For understanding
Yours vera
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As long as you don't respond so she(maybe she) gets your real email you should be fine.

I just posted this because I was curious if others had the same experience and because I was so surprised such spam was coming from a source I really wouldn't expect (this forum). I'm certainly not dumb enough to respond!

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You have the username of the person who sent you an email via the forum mail? (should be, but it's late here, brain is mushy ). If so, please send it to me, I'll check the IP, the user account. I might have to add a minimum period before posting to solve this kind of problems if it becomes a nuisance.

As long as you don't answer, the "member/spammer" will not get your email address, since the message is sent via the forum software.

Even if you get a message from a regular member and for some reason you want to keep your email address private, you can use temporary emails like mailinator.com

Hahahaha! I got that exact same email today! Pretty sure it's a spammer.

EDIT: BTW. Her forum name is verababy.

Oh dorn, now I feel left out - please send me one too verababy!

Yep, got the same mail yesterday^^"

Heh, got the same mail from Verababy. I totally understand she digs me, but I'm not sure I'm ready for my own personal stalker.

I got 4 copies of this mail.

Yep, same here too. Just got it about an hour ago.

But on the flip side, somebody finally e-mailed me yay!

I got one this morning, too.

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I've deleted the user account. Its email address had "david" in it btw. Most likely not a "she". I really have no idea what motives or incentives those spammers have. I'm always surprised to see spammers register here because if say, they had a automatic script for PunBB this forum has no "register.php" page. So clearly they are doing a manual check of the site, and going to the main site to register.

I got it too. Have you noticed that the spammers almost always have lousy English? I wonder if there's a reason behind it...

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Please let me know if you get spam from non legitimate members, from someone else than "verababy", just in case that guy creates a new account. I'm checking the logs.

Same message here. Not worried, though, I just clicked the "Report as Spam" in Gmail, so I shouldn't receive any more of that mumbling.

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It's a "dating scammer" from Senegal. The plot thickens.. :-)

Got also 2 mails, I guess they'll stop now

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Well the plot really DOES thicken. The first IP that matches the dating scammer "geo location" is a GET request for a smilie... that appears in a post.... on a certain KanjiHanzi page. Whoah. The law of karma in action, heheh. Could be that the spammer got onto that page per chance? Does KanjiHanzi live in Senegal?

EDIT: Looks like the scammer from South Africa actually read through KanjiHanzi's blog post about yours truly mercilessly banning his account here. After spending a good while reading the KanjiHanzi topics here, the scammer came back 10 days later to check a random topic, and again a couple days later, which is yesterday when he/she started to spam a bunch of people via forum email. Ah well. There you go, KanjiHanzi is avenged by a compassionate Nigerian scammer. Or maybe I have too much imagination (^_-)

Wow, that kanjihanzi site really has visitors O.o

More people need to learn to think critically it seems.

ファブリス Wrote:Well the plot really DOES thicken. The first IP that matches the dating scammer "geo location" is a GET request for a smilie... that appears in a post.... on a certain KanjiHanzi page. Whoah. The law of karma in action, heheh. Could be that the spammer got onto that page per chance? Does KanjiHanzi live in Senegal?

EDIT: Looks like the scammer from South Africa actually read through KanjiHanzi's blog post about yours truly mercilessly banning his account here. After spending a good while reading the KanjiHanzi topics here, the scammer came back 10 days later to check a random topic, and again a couple days later, which is yesterday when he/she started to spam a bunch of people via forum email. Ah well. There you go, KanjiHanzi is avenged by a compassionate Nigerian scammer. Or maybe I have too much imagination (^_-)

I got one, too.

The atrocious English probably means it's not organized computer crime looking for more bots (they can afford native speakers to write or edit), and probably indicates a freelance scam artist wannabe. Gonna take some real numbers crunching for this one to get lucky. It will require an incredibly gullible person who also has lots of spare cash. It worked for Bernie Madoff of course, but then he wasn't sporting an obvious linguistic handicap.

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Just to confirm that I have blocked the spammer's IP (and deleted the "verababy" account).

I'm really sorry for the disturbance. Your email address is still private so long as you do NOT reply to the scammer.

Hopefuly he/she will move on, I'm keeping an eye on the logs and new registrations for now.

I just got one of those spam emails. I am quite surprised that someone is spamming through this site; he/she cannot harvest the emails and consequently they are spamming manually through the website email-to-member interface! Now, that's perseverance!!

Edit: The email was received 6 hours before the time of this post; that's is before the spammer's account was blocked.

I wonder when I can meet her... she sounds dreamy..

Yeah, I remember surfing to 419scam (or similar) where scammers were counter-scammed, I would love to see a pic of her.

I got this today, it had me confused