Coffee Pancake Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 New trend ... using a bot to scape a list of IM targets from a group membership, and then deliberately messaging while they are offline. Reporting the offender is a waste of time presumably because LL believe you can prevent this by turning off IM->email for everyone or don't understand the limitations of blocking an avatar. This is now happening at least once per day. SL is now is an email spam platform. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echelon Alcott Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) I've been experiencing the same, although at a much lesser frequency than reported by Coffee. In the cases where the spam comes directly from the store/organization associated with the group, it is immediately followed by a "leave group" action on my part. Edited November 24, 2021 by Echelon Alcott 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelindaN Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Thanks for the heads up on this. So far I haven't noticed anything, but I tend to block delete my e mail anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimmi Zehetbauer Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 I encountered that from some stupid DJ that scraped some music group list and send unwanted PMs. When I PMed him, he told me something not suitable for posting on this board. Actually happened twice --- also the PMed spam from some creator who made threats to those who spoke against gachas awhile back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaithLynnSayes Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it so that your name doesn't show up in the members list if you hide the group from your profile? Could that (if so) not be a way to try and fight this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiritSparrow Skydancer Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 22 hours ago, CaithLynnSayes said: Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it so that your name doesn't show up in the members list if you hide the group from your profile? Could that (if so) not be a way to try and fight this? Only if the group owner selects this option. However I believe a clever bot could bypass this. Just a thought… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doris Johnsky Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Precisely why I don't send my IMs to email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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