Is this dipshit harassing anyone else?

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I got this email recently:

Hello dear,
Greetings to you,My name is Linda , i view your profile today at (www.wrongplanet.net) i decide to communicate with you and it will please me if you will be my friend, i wish if you will respond to my mail box so that i will give you my picture and tell you more about my self, i hope to hear from you.
soon yours Linda.
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I may have personal problems, but I am far from being a sucker and I'm not stupid enough to believe anyone would be this friendly by nature to a total stranger. This subhuman obviously has an agenda.

I got one of these messages too, but I don't remember if it was the this person.

typically one receives messages such as these from a bot. I've gotten these before only in mine they claim to have seen my profile on some site without disclosing the name of the site. When you click on the link they usually take you to a dating site or a pornography site or they attempt to convince you to install some bogus antivirus software which is itself a virus.

I got a message exactly like that before, only not from "Linda". I think you should just ignore it.

Report it, so that the mods can ban the bot.

Yup. I don't think it's possible to ban them, though. They are probably just getting e-mail addresses from our profiles. It's run-of-the-mill spam.

My profile does not list my email addy, yet I've received two such bot-PMs in the last year. I reported the last one, and the mod said that the user behind it had been banned.

In Mods We Trust.

Why would you list your email here? I used a secondary or maybe tertiary account to register here and I don't even wanna give that one out

The trouble is that I don't always remember which email account I've used at any given website.

Mentalpause strikes again!

Basic spam. Never ever reply, or click a link in one. There's a lot of that stuff out there, and there are lots of ways they can pick up your address. I delete about a dozen of them every day from my inbox, because my ISP's spam filter was filtering out some things that I wanted (even if the machine is 99% accurate, there's still that 1%, that is one e-mail out of a hundred that it throws out mistakenly). It was indeed removing a lot of spam, I found out when I asked the guys at the ISP to take me off the filter. But I'd rather toss out my own, and not miss something important. I suppose that they could be tempting to someone who was really interested in nude pictures of young girls, or getting a million dollars that isn't yours out of africa, but the first is easy to do without catching viruses and/or sending out spam from your own computer, not to mention a lot of other nasties, and the second ain't gonna happen: you just lose the contents of your own bank account.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Oh, and never ever ever open an attachment to an e-mail unless you know for sure who it's from, and expecting it.

Be very cynical about random e-mails. Aspies especially tend to be trusting and gullible and assume that whoever's writing us is telling the truth.

There's another spam/scam going around that appears to be a post from someone you actually do know, saying they're stuck in a foreign country and somebody stole their wallet and their ID and can you send them X amount of money. I think they get the addresses for those out of people's address books who caught one of their viruses. Several of my friends have gotten that one, but when they looked closely, there was something wrong with it, and they checked with the person it was supposed to be from, who was still at home and hadn't sent it.

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I've had a few of those, to the point where I can now recognise them by the headings. They usually go straight to my spam folder, but if the occasional one gets through I just delete it. I think one way to tell straight away that the sender has an ulterior motive is if they use your Christian name in the title in order to make the e-mail look personal - despite not knowing you.