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30 Jan 2011, 9:19 pm

saying they're looking for someone related to a person who left a large amount of money in our bank.

Obviously trolling, maybe just for live email addresses.

obviously because us people with asperger's are so gullible, except we're not!

With just a little bit of time and/or a little bit of practice, able to handle things quite well thank you very much. (and/or a little bit of social support but that doesn't always come on schedule)

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30 Jan 2011, 9:28 pm

Yeah, I got one. Well, no, actually I got two. I can't tell if this is a Nigerian scam or a Spanish Prisoner scam, though.

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30 Jan 2011, 9:32 pm

Yeah, sounds like 'Spanish prisoner,' even something about joining you in your country!

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30 Jan 2011, 9:34 pm

I forgot to post a warning about this email I received to. Ooops. I was thinking about other things.

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30 Jan 2011, 9:41 pm

A little bit of housekeeping, I guess we can block "lisa4u11"

But I don't want this to be a reason to make it more difficult for new members to join our group and become active. We want people with Asperger's, Autism to be able to readily join our community.

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30 Jan 2011, 9:56 pm

ugh, I had two in the WP inbox today.

One like the OP's and the other for a interested woman.
I threw them away though...

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30 Jan 2011, 10:00 pm

Please report the username and email, so we may ban them. It is no good throwing out the PMs until we have banned them.

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30 Jan 2011, 10:01 pm

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30 Jan 2011, 10:04 pm

She/he/it has already been banned. But if you wish to report this sort of scam, either PM a moderator, or else post in the WP Discussion forum.

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30 Jan 2011, 10:22 pm

I'll keep a look out for that E-mail and those messages.

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31 Jan 2011, 10:31 am

Quatermass wrote:

Please report the username and email, so we may ban them. It is no good throwing out the PMs until we have banned them.

Thank you Quatermass.

lisa4u11 was already banned due to spamming - if anybody here received similar messages from someone else, please mention the nicknames so we can resolve the problem.

Thank you

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31 Jan 2011, 10:32 am

It's just some internet spam thing. I've gotten the same email before actually.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:24 am

It's happening on pretty much every forum that I've ever signed up to, not just WrongPlanet.

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31 Jan 2011, 4:21 pm

I got one from lisa4u11 and one from jessicalove.

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31 Jan 2011, 4:23 pm

Edit - I've just checked, jessicalove was banned a few days ago, they won't bother you again.

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31 Jan 2011, 4:44 pm

superboyian wrote:

It's happening on pretty much every forum that I've ever signed up to, not just WrongPlanet.

That's why some places don't allow newbies to send any PMs until they reacdh a certain number amount of posts. About two places I can think of have that feature. Alex needs to add it here too.

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