Scammers on Pprune

[HOVIS]

Nigerian scam has entered pprune.
This was in my inbox tonight.

[artee]

Originally Posted by HOVIS

Nigerian scam has entered pprune.
This was in my inbox tonight.

How come of all the PPRuNers, you have to chance to get rich by enabling a gold transaction, and the rest of us don't. It doesn't seem fair.

[HOVIS]

Just lucky I guess. 😁

[Senior Pilot]

There seem to be a few recipients of this Scam, I’ve reported it to IB and will let you know the response when I get one.

Obviously a newbie should not have unlimited access to the PM ‘sending’ system so there’s a hole in the net which needs mending 🤔🙊

[Asturias56]

Could be worse - a site I moderate has been blitzed by a Chinese religious cult.................

[Fly-by-Wife]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Could be worse - a site I moderate has been blitzed by a Chinese religious cult.................

Oh "Cult" - I thought that was a typo!

[2Planks]

Hovis, same for me. Trouble it comes in to the mailbox with an @pprune address, so if I block it I won’t get legit messages, or worse gets the Forum addresses marked as a source of phishing.

[maplestory]

only 1 mail allowed to newbies,,, its terrible but i understand the problems related to scammers

[NutLoose]

Ask him to send a sample to ensure it is kosher... a 500 Grams in weight should do.

[IBJoel]

I've deleted all of that user's PMs sent and we're implementing a "User Must have X Posts to Use PMs" tool that we thought was already in place.

[Asturias56]

thanks!!