Fix your email, stop allowing spam

If you type sex in our contact page -> spam

I will investigate this right now (I have spammers!)

We actually detected this user two hours ago and I banned her / deleted her account

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Julien

I am having exactly the same problem. Our email addresses do not appear to be secure on this site!

Also finding it difficult to contact the right people to sort this out!

SinoPenn wrote:

Might be useful to have all sent messages from the user also deleted when the person is banned/deleted. 

The emails will still be sent, I know, but at least the content & all references to whatever spammer link they posted are already gone.

I see what you mean... I have to think about it - and improve our anti spam system

Thanks Julien, I had another one this am!  I find it difficult to believe though that people actually respond to this stuff!!

And this one arrived this am! It says undisclosed-recipients so are they sending these to everyone on this site? I thought our emails were private? If this continues I may have to consider leaving the site, which would be a shame!

De Jane tuyo,Thursday, 10 December, 2009 19:21
From: "jane_mark5@ecunet.org" Add sender to Contacts
To: undisclosed-recipients
Hola queridos,
Mi nombre es Jane, es un placer para comunicarnos con usted después de ver su perfil en https://www.expat.com y yo espero que este correo se encuentra en un estado perfecto de la mente.
Por favor, confirme este masaje por escribirme tan pronto como sea posible para que podamos tener una comunicación cómoda y permitir que le envíe mi foto y le dirá más acerca de mi mismo.
gracias y siguen siendo los bendiga.
Jane tuyo.

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Hello dear,
my name is jane,it is my pleasure to communicate with you after viewing your profile at https://www.expat.com and i hopefully this mail will find you in a perfect state of mind.
please confirm this massage by writing me back as soon as possible so that we can have a comfortable communication and enable to send you my picture and tell you more about my self.
thanks and remain bless.
yours jane.

I may have stopped such messages reaching me now as I have changed my privacy options! I think people who want to contact me will have to do so via a PM on the site, which is fine.

Can you confirm I have done the right thing, thanks.

LindyLouMac wrote:

I may have stopped such messages reaching me now as I have changed my privacy options! I think people who want to contact me will have to do so via a PM on the site, which is fine.

Can you confirm I have done the right thing, thanks.

It was done correctly, LindyLou :-)