Have you ever been messaged by someone new in fluther you sent your there email and said they wanted to contact you privately?

Those are scams for sure. I’ve gotten a few.

Not really. There have been a couple of spam emails but that’s about it.

Yes, I have received these messages. They are scams.

Yeah, those are what we call PM spammers. If it was one from Louisa something-or-other, we’ve already taken care of the problem.

Spam/bullshit.

Especially if it is from someone with piss-poor wonky English with a name like “Chrissy Smiles” who mentions shit about how friendship is like the shining sun mirror or what have you.

I got one from louisa whomever also. It’s gone now. And a guy on here used to ask me for pictures i don’t know if he’s even still on there.

Spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam.

Yeah, I got one asking for help, and of course they needed money. Psssh.

It happened a few times when the big migration away from Answerbag was going down. Answerbag friends signed up here, and they realized one of their old friends from over there was here. There have been a couple since who reacted to something I posted or an answer I gave them. Thankfully, those have been positive reactions. I’ve seen plenty of spam here and flagged same, but never had anyone sign up just to PM me with it.

I got one of those, I found it kind of amusing how strange and completely unrealistic it was.

That was spam.. You let Augustlan know.

@augustlan Yeah, that is the one I got today. The one from louisa. It was the first time and when I looked it up I saw she was new, so I figured it was spam. A lot of trouble to go to spam someone.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Your right. I didn’t even think about it. At first I thought it might be a kid because of the poor english. Your right about spam usually containing poor grammer. Usually because its from someone in another country that doesn’t have english as their primary language.

Back when I was Winters, I got not an email, but a phone number from a fairly new user.

Turned out to be phone sex $1.50 a minute… :( I was on for like 3 hours…

Yeah, but only from spammers. They just happen to come across me, little old me, in the vast expanse of an infinite universe, or at least the among billions of people on the internet, and they want to be friends because I am so fabulous or they need my help because, among the billions of other people in the world, I, and only I, am uniquely qualified to help them. Spammin’ and scammin’ is exactly what it is.

Yeah…that blasted Louisa ! Just why she came and went, I have no idea !

Yes…one really big scam.

Just how this Louisa scammer got my e-mail address, I don’t know…or what she wants ! I thought my e-mail address was private !

I received spam but I don’t really fall for scams because I don’t really care what they ask/give/etc.

@King_Pariah I’m sure you were just trying to fingure out why this person on the phone was trying to say and that is why it took 3 hours. :P

And now someone calls me stupid… If anyone’s looking for me I’ll be the shower, not crying, totally not crying.sniff lol

@King_Pariah No! No! Not stupid. You were just trying to be helpful to the moaning person on the phone. I get it. :o

Me? Helpful? Impossible!

@Mermina Your email address is private, and the spammer didn’t actually have it. We’d never share your private information with anyone.

The email you got was from Fluther, alerting you to the fact that you’d received a PM (private message) here on the site. When we ban the spammer, though, it deletes all the PMs they’ve sent, so by the time you were on Fluther again, it might have already disappeared.