Be aware

Hi All Members
Today I received the mail from some mail id with madina_karim@ymail.com. This person is avalaible on our forum. She is posting the comments on so many article and the comment is same for article that she is saying she wants to make relationship and also she is sending messages to forum member I also recieved one message. I've seen that this person is posting same comment like bellow only.

Hi Krishna,

I also got this same Email.




Thanks

Hi,
I am also getting the same.I guess its like spam mails.

I also received the message a few days ago. I instantly marked it as spam and then forgot about it.

If it is sincere then it is less of a problem however I agree that we should not allow it to be posted anywhere in the web sites.

It is highly unlikely that it is sincere. It is nearly certain a scam of some type. It is unlikely that it was posted by a young girl. If you reply then you will probably get a reply that seems valid. Hopefully the worst that will happen is that your email address will be added to a list for spammers. What might happen is that you will be scammed into sending the person money.

The question is, how did the person get our email addresses? I think that is not supposed to happen, even if the person is a member. Either the email message was sent by someone that each of us has corresponded with, or the site was hacked. Right?

We just had a discussion about this spam. We have removed these members. Please let Praveen or I or post on the forums, know about this kind of spam so we can take actions right away. 

Going forward, we are also thinking to implement "Report Spam" option on the messages so users can report abuse right away by clicking a button.

All ideas are most welcome!

I don't think spammers/scammers like this do have our e-mail addresses.

They simply join the site and send messages (via C# Corner) to a number of prominent members in the hope that some-one will be daft enough to reply. They will then have that member's e-mail address and can do their dirty work :(

Vulpes, have you received any of the email messages? I did, and it did not come from the web site; it came directly to me. There is no indication that the sender got my email address from this web site, but the email address that the message was sent to is one that I use less often. The email adress it was sent to is the email address I use for this web site but not for most other things. When I received the message, I had no indication that this web sitge was involved and it might not be; it might be a total coincidence but if not then it is certainly something to be concerned about.

Like you, I received the message a few days ago. Whilst it did come directly to me, there was something about it which left me in little doubt that it had been sent as a message via C# Corner.

I have a dedicated e-mail address for C# Corner and as only a few trusted people (such as yourself) know what it is, I have never received any spam apart from the 'lonely romantic women' stuff.

Vulpes,
Do you mind sending me your email to mcbkruse AT Gmail? We need to add you to the list of members who discuss new features, new site launches etc. If you have time,  I would like you to be a part of it.

Thanks!

Thank's guys for discussing on the post. I think we must have to resist those person who are sending mails.

 
 the 'lonely romantic women' stuff 

 She looking for Mindcrackers only...  

Mindcracker's Rock.

Lol @ suthish.
I heard rumor that the 'lonely romantic women'  likes wolves :) haha

As long as they don't like foxes as well ... ;)

As long as they don't like foxes as well ... ;)...

LOL