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Old Jul 2, 2008 | 3:06 pm
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Randy Petersen
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I'll echo what SanDiego1K said and put in my own thanks as well. We've seen a slight uptick in this sort of spamming activity and have a few ideas as to how to make it restrictive and this type of information makes us turn up the time table for a solution or two. Most FlyerTalkers have no idea what volunteer Moderators like SanDiego1K do with spam but i can tell you that they delete tens of thousands of spam messages a year on FlyerTalk. Actually, one of our volunteers, Spiff is infamous on his devotion to ridding FlyerTalk of spammers. So, these volunteers do have your back and with your help like this, we can now work on ways to prevent or at least limit these new types of attacks.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ryan182
Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but just today I recieved a PM from someone with the whole I have 45M to invest...blah blah scam, FWIW the user has 0 posts. Not sure to whom or where one should report such a thing, regular posts have a "report" option but I didn't see that for PMs.

thanks
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