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peter, on 03 July 2010 - 03:43 AM, said:

Say, What??

I thought I found love on escale!!

She said she thought I was interesting and EVERYTHING!!

Well, not really, but I had a bit of a chuckle about it when I saw the PM.

If anything it did get me to return to the site.

A few members did receive the PM and thanks for bringing it to our attention. I have deleted the account.

Thank you very much!

Thought I had found love too.
Found it mildly amusing,but not what I want on eScale.Thanks Ole for deleting the account.

hehehehe

i actually love spammers on another board............not on here cos its not that sort of place..........but there spammer baiting is almost a sport ...........we try to have fun with them before the mods can delete them............we also have a 'report a spammer' thread (yeah....we do get that many ) and its points scored for who can report them first!

Damn and I didn't get one!!

Well done Pete!!

FYI. I got one today!

Hello .. well i logged on today .. low & behold i had a PM .. opened it up .. showed my wife .. now .. i have a black eye .. thanks to whomever left me that PM

Hi Chris, the message you had was the one that brought this discussion up. I'm looking into ways that I can prohibit mass PM's in the event that someone gets through our screening in the future. Unfortunately, SPAM is is an Internet problem that's here to stay. I wish governments would police this a little better (electronic SPAM and Paper Based SPAM is one of my pet hates). We can put a whole lot of processes in place, but someone somewhere will find a way around it. It's a matter of trying to keep ahead of them.

Benjamin Linus, on 06 July 2010 - 04:46 AM, said:

Ben,that's what a private or personal message is...A P.M.
Your own fault for showing it to Mrs B.LOL

arni, on 06 July 2010 - 03:36 PM, said:

Hello Arni .. can you type using BIGGER letters .. i can only see from one eye .. i can't read message lol !

Is this O.K. LOL

arni, on 06 July 2010 - 10:43 PM, said:

pardon?.....could you speak a little louder................didnt quite catch that

arni, on 06 July 2010 - 05:43 PM, said:

That is Marvellous .. i can see again .. this is a MIRACLE !

Hi I also received an e-mail from a female I presume stating that she had seen my profile on eScale & wanted to get to know me she she is sure we can really get on together. maybe they haven,t realised I am married nearly on retirement

Boetie, on 10 July 2010 - 05:56 PM, said:

dont tell them that!...you will be getting the viagra spam next!

Apologies for that Boetie, that's the message we have been discussing.

As an update, I've made some changes to the forum which will prohibit that from affecting us to that extent ever again.

Uh oh Peters breaking out the big guns now. Lol. Thanks Peter.

I'd love to know where these people live, drive to their house at 3am and ask if they suffer from erectile dysfunction lol.

Thanks C in C

beowulf, on 10 July 2010 - 05:27 PM, said:

Hi Beowulf already getting Viagra spam does that sound right, when I was a kid it was just spam

arni, on 06 July 2010 - 03:36 PM, said:

Arni .. good news .. my black eye has completly healed .. what next ?