Cryptic Wonder Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 For the last few weeks I have been receiving private messages spamvertising mmook.com, all from throw away accounts with names like jdfigjgcnb.The contents of the messages are along the lines of "Hello ! Welcome to: www .mmook . com Buy Cheapest Linden Dollars . 5K Linden Dollars = 12.57"I was wondering if anyone else has been receiving this spam? Needless to say I haven't actually clicked on the link, as anyone who uses such underhand marketing methods is likely to be completely dishonest.Which brings me to the point of this message, is there anyway to report private message spam to LL?And how would LL go around having criminals like mmook.com shut down?Thanks,Crypt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Bhalti Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 report abuse from the second life client (or any tvp) as hurrasment and then block and mute the offending spammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 You said you had been getting "private messages"; if by that you meant messages here or in your my.secondlife.com account then yes, you should report that to LL. I believe nobody can send you a PM here on the forum or in your my.secondlife.com feed without first having a Second Life account and if someone with an SL account is spamming you it's LL's business. If you meant you were getting those messages in your email (I don't think that's what you meant since you specifically said 'private messages') then no, there is nothing LL can do about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptic Wonder Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 If they were in-world IMs, then I would have just filed abuse reports, but they are instead private messages sent from https://my.secondlife.com/inbox/messages which are then forwarded by LL to my email account. Unfortunately LL doesn't seem to provide a way of flagging these private messages. The message have been coming for a few weeks now, and are of course being sent from LL accounts, but these appear to be throw away accounts with names made up of random letter like jdfigjgcnb. Ideally LL should be trying to have dishonest sites like mmook shut down, as just disabling the accounts that sent the spam would be ineffectual. Interesting, it just occurred to me to do a whois on mmook.com, it is registered to : Lifang Li, Changzhou, China. Crypt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 LL won't do anything about it because you have the ability yourself to restrict Private Messages in the Privacy Settings of your Profile Feed to Friends Only, or could stop email notifications from your Profile Feeds entirely by changing the Notifications Settings. Or you could leave things the way they are and just become a whinging masochist. © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptic Wonder Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 jujmental wrote: Or you could leave things the way they are and just become a whinging masochist. Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today? or are you just a thoroughly unpleasant individual? Most likely the latter. The point of raising this topic, is that hopefully LL will do something about the spam and even better will try and have mmook.com shut down. But if not, at the very least, I would hope that this thread might act as a warning to others to avoid mmook who are by all accounts (google mmook.com) a bunch of thieves. and hopefully prevent a few people from falling prey to these scammers. But of course, you are such a sourpuss that only motivation you understand is the boost you get from putting others down - what a sad little individual you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Yes, I've been getting them for some of my alts too. I don't bother about them because it looks like one IM per alt so - at least that's what I've assumed - so they'll soon stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenMichelle Lane Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 1) Click on offending/annoying email message. 2) select Mark as SPAM End of problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptic Wonder Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 KarenMichelle Lane wrote: 1) Click on offending/annoying email message. 2) select Mark as SPAM End of problem. Hi KarenMichelle, Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately however as LL is the actual source of the email, marking the email as spam would effectively be reporting LL as the spammer. Crypt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I wrote earlier that they are just one email per alt so they'll soon stop, but that's not true. I'm receiving multiple emails per alt so they may not stop. They are IMs, not PMs. I.e. they are inworld IMs to your alts. You can stop them by setting your alts not to receive IMs by email when they are not logged in. You'll still get saved IMs when the alts log in though, so it's not a cure. It's very easy to have the email client delete them too, by creating an email client Rule that deletes any email with mmook in the content. They are sent from various SL account names, so LL can't deal with it by banning accounts. They may be able to not accept any IMs that contain certain words like 'mmook', or something lik that, so it may be worth doing what's already been suggested and contact LL about it. Personally, I'm just going to create a Rule in my email client that sends them to my Junk folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anselm Hexicola Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Like many of you I'm sure, I too have been getting this spam from mmook.com. For you Phil they are IM's to alts; but that is not my own experience. In my case, they are PM's on my profile feed on my.secondlife (or whatever it is called...) - they are then forwarded as e-mails by Linden Lab because I have never bothered to configure my settings there. ( I have now, but it is an aggravation in a feature I never normally bother with ...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 To be honest, I don't use feeds so I know very little about them. I've assumed that they are IMs. When I said they are not PMs, I meant that they are not forum PMs, which they are not. Forum PMs are the only PMs I know about, so they may be only on feeds. I'll have to log an alt in to make sure what they are for me. ETA: I logged in my alts that I know have received them and they are all feed messages - not IMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 So the saw's not true; you can teach an old dog new tricks. Whether it'll be remembered tomorrow is another matter, of course. © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethelwine Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Advice related to this here community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/An-Important-Reminder-About-Buying-and-Selling-L/ba-p/2334937 Sorry my phone doesn't seem to do links right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethelwine Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Unfortunately nothing about fixing whatever security exploit they are using to make the feed message box useable again as a contact method for people not on your friendslist. I have had to turn that off because I have been getting regular in world notifications. 10 messages in the last day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Because you're mine . . . © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 On the charge of self-delusion: GUILTY Judge Sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Phil Deakins wrote: On the charge of self-delusion: GUILTY Judge Sane. Stop talking to yourself. It's the second sign of madness. The first one was making up things that didn't happen - remember. Ah, that's right, you don't. © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 On the charge of embarrassingly squirming: GUILTY Judge Sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Phil Deakins wrote: On the charge of embarrassingly squirming: GUILTY Judge Sane. See above. © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 As an aside, our foreign friends probably aren't acquainted with Yarkshar Poodan: it's stodgy and sour, full of air and impossible to stomach without a good dose of sauce. Remind you of anyone? © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 jujmental wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: On the charge of embarrassingly squirming: GUILTY Judge Sane. See above. © The Judge On the charge of being embarrassingly tongue-tied because of the situation you find yourself in: GUILTY Judge Sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujmental Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Sorry, you'll have to excuse me for a moment, I have to get on with my dayjob. (Tongue-tied? Me? Now you're really getting into fantasyland!) © The Judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Aethelwine wrote: Advice related to this here community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/An-Important-Reminder-About-Buying-and-Selling-L/ba-p/2334937 Sorry my phone doesn't seem to do links right http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/An-Important-Reminder-About-Buying-and-Selling-L/ba-p/2334937 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laszlo Yuitza Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 THIS is not normal , i reported that to LL but it looked like they are not very intrestet or won't understand look on this pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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