topic Re: Ads in Get Support

Namu — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:27:57 GMT

Hello,

There is an ad in my private messaging. Is this normal? It's from another member.

Thank you

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Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:53:59 GMT

@Namu

No is not normal, you have to report it...

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Triguy — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:52:39 GMT

It is probably a spam email. You can click on the title of the message and then click on the report button in the bottom left to notify a CSA.

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Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:51:24 GMT

@Namu : Likely spam. Spam happens. Click the subject line then Report to the lower left then Ignore above right then Delete lower right.

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Yummy — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:56:07 GMT

Occasionally you will receive an 'ad' in your mailbox. This is considered spam and these people are not 'members' but idle bodies having nothing else to do in their lives but to annoy other people. Report and delete.

Based on few lists of spammers provided by @darlicious their user IDs are usually firstname_lastname which none of the actual members uses here so it easy to recognize spam and ignore.

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Namu — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:56:20 GMT

Oh thank you! I see now. I didn't want to open the ad message but I see you must to get rid of it. I reported it and then deleted it.

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esjliv — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:56:30 GMT

@Namu wrote:
Hello,
There is an ad in my private messaging. Is this normal? It's from another member.

Thank you

@Namu

Here is an announcement from Public Mobile regarding SPAM messages in your inbox, with detail instructions on what to do with them:

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Announcements/What-to-do-with-spam-in-your-Private-Message-folder/m-p/626565#M46454

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Namu — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:58:35 GMT

Thank you everyone for your timely help.

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Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:00:00 GMT

@Namu : What is not clear to many people is that if you got a notification email that you got a private message from someone then that email itself has nothing harmful in it. Then you open private messaging, the presence of that message isn't harmful. Then the opening of that message is harmless. The only harmful part would be clicking on links IN the message. Don't.

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Namu — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:01:10 GMT

Oh that was fast. The moderator? Already replied that the user has been banned.

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Yummy — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:11:42 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Namu : What is not clear to many people is that if you got a notification email that you got a private message from someone then that email itself has nothing harmful in it. Then you open private messaging, the presence of that message isn't harmful. Then the opening of that message is harmless. The only harmful part would be clicking on links IN the message. Don't.

Does this rule apply to emails received in your e-mail inbox (hotmail, yahoo, gmail)?

I read somewhere that even opening email (not here on PM!) can initiate download and run of some malicious software, etc.

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Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:14:58 GMT

@Yummy : Absolutely not. I'm just talking about the private message notification email from here.

I don't allow images to be shown in received emails. I seem to recall I don't allow javascript to run either but not sure. That way if anything is embedded then I lower the risk of contracting a virus. It's the vaccination 🙂

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Yummy — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:18:32 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
It's the vaccination 🙂

I guess you got booster and booster for booster... 🤣

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jib_tech — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:01:01 GMT

@Namu

I get spam a couple of times a month in my private messages. Just get used to it. Report and delete.