I received this PM this morning. It was sent as an RE, like it was an answer to one I had sent them, I sent them nothing. Here it is;


Hi 66luvr,
Thank you for your time. I am Ella from a big company. We specialize in high quality OBD2/EOBD Scanners that allow users to diagnose their automobiles easily. I am reaching out to you on the possibility of getting an editorial review for our featured Auto Code Scanner on this forum.
This is a portable set of CAN OBD2 scanner with comprehensive functions. It works on most 1996 US-Based, 2000 EU-Based and Asian cars, and newer OBD II & CAN domestic or import vehicles; supports full functions of OBD and EOBD vehicles, such as reading dynamic data streams, clearing DTCs, and detecting oxygen sensors, etc.; with 2.8 inch color LCD, adopts graphical display; can realize data storage and playback; easy to query in its inner powerful storage library of various information; features humanized function menu design with silicone button and pot metal touch key; supports English, French and Spanish. Besides, it is capable of USB2.0 quick online upgrade.
If you are interested in reviewing our latest Auto Code Scanner, please let me know and I will send out a free product for you to review. Besides, I will give you more detailed information about this product and company. Please email me at xiangguoxiangqing [at] gmail [dot] com. Please provide links to the forum home page, and tell me your name on that forum.
Thank you so much for reading. I really appreciate your great assistance for us.
Regards,
Ella


Anyone have an explanation for this? Any way to prevent it? Spam is bad enough on the email now I start getting this junk here.


Thanks,

 

MAALI181 has been banned. You will not receive anymore unsolicited PM's.

 

Thanks, I received the same,

Of course I responded and have already received from them a brand new CTS-V from them to test their scanner, along with one million in cash for my time.

 

Funny. I just opened up the same pm. Wonder how many others got this? Al

 

Yeah the new CTS V would have been a cool offering!

 

I got one too. Promptly deleted it.

 

Tanks Eric, and thanks for the smile to the others, good way to begin another day.

 

I got one, reported it. Likely everyone on the members list got one?
Good to hear the problem is fixed. But I wonder if the bot that did this collected other info from the User CP that could be distributed elsewhere.

 

I received one also. Not a tech guy, but can't mass mailings via PMs be blocked somehow? Or does Internet brands sell the list with access to private messaging ?
The mods may get real busy if they have to ban each source one at a time.

 

Me too. Another scammer & spammer. Ban them all.

 

I have one that told me that this person won a large amount of money and wants to share it with me and send him my personal info

 

WOW! He must have won the lottery and is kind enough to share.

 

I didn't get one. I feel so left out. Nobody likes me.

If it keeps me from getting spam, I am glad I am a nobody.

 

Got one, deleted and reported

 

Got it too, but didn't reply.

I'm taped out after sending $5,000 in transfer fees to a recently discovered Nigerian prince/friend with over $600million dollars he needs me to stash for him. He promised 10% of the 600 if I do this. It's been two months now, but I KNOW he's sending me the money right away.

 

 

Fake news

 

Ha ha, Love it!

 

I'm curious about this as well. Luckily, since the member list is something published, they probably just got a script put together to dump the list and comma delimit it for sending out. One of the downfalls of using a popular off the shelf message board software.

 

Got private message from scammer as well.

 

That is exactly what I need for troubleshooting issues with the 1971 Cutlass! Where do I sign up?