SPAM in my Mailbox

[baldwin the merciful]

I'm not sure where to post this, or to whom it should be addressed to, but I received a private message today that appears to be spam. This has not happened before, so I'm not sure how Paizo handles this type of issue.

The message allegedly comes from a person serving in the US military overseas and the author reportedly "needs ...[a] source of contact for an urgent purpose. For security reason, Reply asap once you read this for more info."

Thanks.

[baldwin the merciful]

When I refreshed the site there were 4 other messages from the person, who is now sending them to my NPC Aliases.

[Lissa Guillet]

baldwin the merciful wrote:

When I refreshed the site there were 4 other messages from the person, who is now sending them to my NPC Aliases.

Can you post the profile of the person who sent them here? That's a new tactic.

[Misroi]

I had a similar PM to baldwin the merciful. The profile of mine is "captain Greg 865." The message is as follows:

Almost Definitely A Scammer wrote:

Good Day Friend,

I'm Capt. Greg Schneider,in 4th Battalion,64th Armored Regiment unit here that
Patrols the
helmand province, Afghanistan. I need you as my source of contact for an urgent
purpose.
For security reason, Reply asap once you read this for more info.

Kind regards
Capt Greg Schneider.
United States Soldier:Afghanistan

[baldwin the merciful]

Misroi wrote:

I had a similar PM to baldwin the merciful. The profile of mine is "captain Greg 865." The message is as follows:

Almost Definitely A Scammer wrote:

Good Day Friend,

I'm Capt. Greg Schneider,in 4th Battalion,64th Armored Regiment unit here that
Patrols the
helmand province, Afghanistan. I need you as my source of contact for an urgent
purpose.
For security reason, Reply asap once you read this for more info.

Kind regards
Capt Greg Schneider.
United States Soldier:Afghanistan

That is it. I have 28 new messages from him to all my NPC aliases.

Sent 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
From captain Greg 865 Add to Contacts
To baldwin the merciful
Subject Good Day Friend, Reply

Good Day Friend,

I'm Capt. Greg Schneider,in 4th Battalion,64th Armored Regiment unit here that
Patrols the
helmand province, Afghanistan. I need you as my source of contact for an urgent
purpose.
For security reason, Reply asap once you read this for more info.

Kind regards
Capt Greg Schneider.
United States Soldier:Afghanistan

[baldwin the merciful]

I've now deleted all the messages from my PM box but the original one. I saved that one in case Paizo needs to see it or track the sender. I did block the sender though.

[Black Dow]

Been hit with the same message from Capt Greg 865

[Brandt J. Prickett]

I was hit with that message as well.

[Lissa Guillet]

Yes. Just delete them. He's been banned. If it's a new user please let us know the username or preferably the profile url

[Aberzombie]

Just found one myself this morning.

[Cheapy]

Aberzombie wrote:

Just found one myself this morning.

I thought I was the only one he had the urgent request for!!!

[King of Vrock]

I got one from "captain Greg 131" as well.

[Arassuil]

Ditto. I deleted the PM though without thinking much about it.

I'll remember next time to instead post here first and wait until deleting it.

[Lissa Guillet]

Yep. He's been suspended.

[Lord Raptor]

Hi,

Got this yesterday as well but see its already been dealt with;

Sent Yesterday, 04:34 AM
From captain Greg 131 Add to Contacts
To Lord Raptor
Subject Good Day Friend, Reply
Good Day Friend,

I'm Capt. Greg Schneider,in 4th Battalion,64th Armored Regiment unit here that Patrols the helmand province, Afghanistan. I need you as my source of contact for an urgent purpose.

For security reason Reply asap through this email address [e-mail] once you read this for more info.

Kind regards
Capt Greg Schneider.
United States Soldier:Afghanistan

[JoelF847]

It would be sorta cool if the US military actually needed the urgent aid of Pathfinder players though..

[Tarondor]

No, it would be terrifying.

I got the same message.

[lynora]

Got another one this morning from Captain Greg 903.

[Xzaral]

captainGreg903

The alias he sent it to hasn't even been used since February of 2012, so kinda curious how he even found it to send it.

[Uriel Ch0X0r1]

I've also got captainGreg903.

[Enchanter Tim]

I also got one from captainGreg903.

[Eric Swanson]

Count me in as one visited by the captainGreg903 spammer.

[motteditor]

I got 903 as well today.

[GlennH]

I got 2 from captainGreg903 as well sent 2 hours ago.

[Lissa Guillet]

OK. He's been banned.

[Misroi]

I was hit by captainGreg903 as well, this time on an alias that hasn't been used in over a year. Rather random.

[pH unbalanced]

GlennH wrote:

I got 2 from captainGreg903 as well sent 2 hours ago.

Me too. I've now deleted it.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Just a minute ago, I got a spam message from captainGreg500. >:(

[Dalek Thos]

EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!

[nosig]

wow... I feel kind of left out.
I haven't gotten any of these...
What, I don't post enough or something?

(just sarcasm people!)

[Orthos]

Apparently, you haven't posted stuff on an alias a long time ago (as in multiple years).

[Aberzombie]

Got another one!

[YuenglingDragon]

You should just add in a business rule that no profiles can be created with the name captaingreg in it. Because &*#% that guy.

[Rynjin]

^Just got that same one.

They spent a lot of time writing their scam, I'll give them that.

[Misroi]

Confirmed: Kytons invented the Spanish Prisoner con.

[Feros]

Janet Isi in my PM inbox as well.

Just a question: are there actually people gullible and greedy enough to fall for this crap?

[Eric Swanson]

Feros wrote:

Janet Isi in my PM inbox as well.

Just a question: are there actually people gullible and greedy enough to fall for this crap?

As in my Inbox as well...I suspect there are more stupid people out there than you realize, he he.

[The Cathezar]

Misroi wrote:

Confirmed: Kytons invented the Spanish Prisoner con.

Among many, many other things, luv.

[Andrew Phillips]

I just got the one from Janet Isi.

[Vic Wertz]

Please don't quote the spammers. We don't want to help their googleability.

[Risen Fate]

I have received two messages from a "Captain Greg 131" as well.