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Just wanted to update you regarding a spam attack whereby the spammer joins a local group and replies to all open posts with texts mentioning a lottery or mentioning membership issues with Freecycle and including a link (that should NOT be clicked on).
Bad news is that this bot, someone created, was able to join and leave groups all over and make spam replies in My Messages.
Good news: we are working on it. We've already removed all the replies in My Messages and the accounts have been blocked/removed. Also, the email notifications have likewise all been removed from our bulkmail servers so they are not going out either. If a member already received an email and clicks thru to the My Messages, they'll just see a reply with an account starting in "!". The exclamation mark means the account has been deleted. And, there will no longer be any spam/scammer text in the actual reply.
Some members will report that they can't reply to other legitimate repliers to their posts. That happens when a member blocks another member (the spammer) that the other replies are blocked as well, but the removal of those accounts means that members will no longer have that problem either.
It's always a battle with scammers and spammers. We are setting up blocks so that this can not happen again.
Thanks
Colin
Lead mod
Canterbury