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Tessa Gwynne

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Posted at same time Diane! I stay logged in, except when I clear my search history which I do every so often. Then I have to log in again.

Tanja G.

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oh thank U so much Tessa, that's it:)

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Sandra Kennedy

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Yes, I got it as well, and being certain it was a scam I deleted. 

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John Johnston

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I have now received a second request to buy from Kylie Ellie. Its no great hardship to just hit delete but is anything being done about this? 

Norrette Moore

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I had presumed this would be only on the "for sale" items. But it appears to be for all.  Thankfully, if I'm right, the email address is not visible to the sender, it goes through POL?
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I had one last evening didn’t bother opening it just hit delete button. I believe Dawn asked the technicians to ban the person but that’s no guarantee they won’t come back under another assumed name. The only way is to have a cooling off period when you first register before you can post anything, it would only stop them posting until the period has expired but as most post as much as they can as quickly as possible it would stop a lot of it. I know it will be a nuisance for genuine people but sadly that is the outcome of keeping the site safer .

Mark Annison

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I too have been approached by Kylie Ellie. She wanted to buy some pictures but was offering a ludicrous price ($2500 each)! I know my work isn't worth a tenth of this. Can someone please blacklist this person before someone gets sucked in and loses their bank details!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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They've been removed from membership of the site; the trouble is that they come back under different identities.  Paul Dean has suggested a way in which this might be dealt with - e.g. a probation period - but dealing with these fraudsters is not easy: they're one of the many perils of the internet. 

John Johnston

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Well I received another request at 13:04, so they were still active then. For what it's worth, I use a probationary period in my forum. It's not without it's merits but doesn't solve the problem on it's own. I have sections of my forum and facilities, that aren't visible to new members until a pre-determined number of posts have been made. This gives me the opportunity to monitor their involvement and form an opinion about their genuineness. The new members aren't aware of the things they can't see and I've found that most spammers don't want to waste time making polite conversation. With regards to banning, I exercise a zero-tolerance approach and ban on name, email and IP address to make it more difficult for them to just re-join. I also have my site linked to "Stop Forum Spam" (your techie's will know about this database) so that any new member registering is checked against a world-wide database of known spammers. The use of a Captcha, the spammer database and a probationary period keeps my site free from troublesome users. There are lots that can be done to prevent issues like this but if this is a one-off then it's hardly worth the effort. The forum techie's will have it all in hand I'm sure.

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Martin xxShawxx

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I’m doing a picture of my dogs scrotum. Rear view. They can have that The pleasure is all my dogs. Fame on the ether, sorry, nether regions, it’s in the Norh East. You can’t stop progress.  Yours The Dark Lord

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Tanja G.

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I just received an email like this from Kylie Ellie. She is thrilled by my talent, blah blah, a lot of honey in the mouth - luckily I know that it's just foam...
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Martin xxShawxx

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Err, I’ve just deleted them. Had the same email. Massive scam. Took a pic first though.  It started off as NFT, and now it’s a money scam. Apparently, NFT takes the copyright and you can’t get hold of the money., even though it says it’s there in the digital ether.  So, this has gone from  an NFT fraud, that is arguable, to a money making scam.  If a breach of copyright has taken place it automatically becomes a police matter. Now, trying to  establish a route to transfer money is a totally different ball game.  Police matter already, as well as fake identity, which will be a minuscule crime compared to the others 
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