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Old 08-04-09, 10:13 AM
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I got this personal message scam.

I got this personal message here on the bike forum. Does anybody know how I can contact the administrator and complain?



Hello From A Friend,
Am Tony Robert, Don't take this message as a surprise j just Feel It s' God direction and will, i have something that is really burdring me in mind and i do not just know how to tell you this I have a project worth 6million Dollars in EUROPE I need your assistance in, all i need is your full support and effort, cause Ideally you will perhaps be my equal or more, and I will like to know you more better because I have a serous issue I need to disclose to you. well, for now, I think This is all I can say before I run out of room; What do you think ?
You can reach through my private email ads, ok !
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wait for your message, ok !
Tony
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Old 08-04-09, 10:35 AM
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Cheers. I just reported this to the rest of the Mod crew. Could you please forward the PM to me or any other Mod so that the sender's username is visible. We'll take it from there. Thanks for bringing this up.

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Old 08-04-09, 11:00 AM
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I just banned and deleted his PM's as well. PM Scam Spam will not be tolerated, so do forward these kind of instances to a moderator or Admin and report them that way. we'll deal with them immediately.

I am the head Administrator, lotek and Siu Blue Wind are also site admins, and it's something that any of the staff can handle, whether a Moderator or an Admin.
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Old 08-04-09, 12:32 PM
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Ah, good. I was just about to forward that one on to a mod.

Thanks for taking care of it.
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Old 08-04-09, 12:38 PM
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I just forwarded this to Juha let me know if that did not work. Not really sure I did it right.

Thanks for the great help.
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Old 08-04-09, 04:46 PM
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I got the same thing, but as an email to my hotmail account.
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Old 08-04-09, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by apricissimus
I got the same thing, but as an email to my hotmail account.
He can no longer access either the PM network or the Email a Member system, happily. The only BF member he can email now is me.
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Originally Posted by Tom Stormcrowe
The only BF member he can email now is me.
Soo, you're the one getting all the gazillion dollars, Tom?
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