Receiving SPAM from elgg.org Users

Last updated by moosh101 Comments (7)

Hello fellow elggers,

I have been receiving spam from elgg.org users in my Windows Live mail account.  Here is an example of one such e-mail:

I am Sandra by name a quiet and sincere girl. i love honesty and truth. I trust people very much.I like nature quiet walks in the parks holding hands listening to the whispering breeze and the songs of the birds; admiring the smiling eyes of my lover, I hope to meet my true love, I will give him all myself completely.i wait to hear from you.i whish you will know me well and see me on picture.i hope to meet you soon.Yours New Friend from community.elgg.org, Sandra.

I understand that its very difficult to distinquish between genuine community users and those who use it solely to spam, I just thought I would inform you all of what is going on.

Regards,

Shane.

  • WOW !!!!!! :)

    elgg fellaaasss Im going to be super rich :D

    I got this in elgg mail today :)

    Merry Xmas,
    The manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department SG-SSB bank limited, The board of directors mandated me to look for any known relation of late Mr. Morris Thompson  who deposited a huge amount of money in our bank without claim, so l decided to contact you, so you can apply for the claim of this funds with my full corporation so I can join you later in your country ,  more details and confidentiality  contact  my private email addresses  elizamark1@rediffmail.com orelizabethmark28@gmail.com,     God bless you

    Yours truly,

    Miss. Elizabeth Mark

  • I always get those kind of emails... =(

  • Setting your contact email to friends only or removing it altogether will help.

  • @Brett the funny thing is that I'm not receiving spams from here on my contact email, but on my Elgg registration email account...

  • @RJ - Is it spam that's being sent via a notification for a message?  That is, are you getting spammed at the internal message system here, which is notifying your registered email address that you have a new message?

  • @Brett not internally, I registered in this community with my hot__mail account, and I am receiving spam directly on that email account. Not the new message notification, but the actual spam message on that email account...

     

    This same one:

    I am Sandra by name a quiet and sincere girl. i love honesty and truth. I trust people very much.I like nature quiet walks in the parks holding hands listening to the whispering breeze and the songs of the birds; admiring the smiling eyes of my lover, I hope to meet my true love, I will give him all myself completely.i wait to hear from you.i whish you will know me well and see me on picture.i hope to meet you soon.Yours New Friend from community.elgg.org, Sandra.

    I understand that its very difficult to distinquish between genuine community users and those who use it solely to spam, I just thought I would inform you all of what is going on.

    Regards,

    Shane.

moosh101

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