This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Ah I see in the post title you have (15) so perhaps it was a hacked account and
they were allowed to send links if they had feedback (would be a recent change
tho)
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
Did the link show as clickable or just plain text
Yes, it does as I still have this message
do you know what day they sent it? also please report the user here
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
Did the link show as clickable or just plain text
Yes, it does as I still have this message
do you know what day they sent it? also please report the user here
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
Did the link show as clickable or just plain text
Yes, it does as I still have this message
do you know what day they sent it? also please report the user here
ah ok, that makes sense, that was before the updates were made banning links
And I have already reported them. But they are still
here
that may just be visibly, due to recent changes (based on new laws in the eu
i think) there is a whole in depth process for banning and such so even if it
appears on the surface level the account is there, they may be deactivated behind
the scenes, or bricklink may have recovered the account for the original owner
already or such.
And I have already reported them. But they are still
here
that may just be visibly, due to recent changes (based on new laws in the eu
i think) there is a whole in depth process for banning and such so even if it
appears on the surface level the account is there, they may be deactivated behind
the scenes, or bricklink may have recovered the account for the original owner
already or such.
And I have already reported them. But they are still
here
that may just be visibly, due to recent changes (based on new laws in the eu
i think) there is a whole in depth process for banning and such so even if it
appears on the surface level the account is there, they may be deactivated behind
the scenes, or bricklink may have recovered the account for the original owner
already or such.
That’s just a constatation:
— there’s spam messages on the forum and their authors get unregistered,
— there’s these scam PMs and some people have said they reported the users but
their accounts still look active.
As Nubs said, there may be rasons why those accounts are not unregistered. BL
is not communicating on that.
And we, users, can’t really tell if the accounts are really still active. We
can only see that they aren’t totally unregistered.
Those scammers don’t buy and don’t sell, so there’s little reason to remove their
priviledges (= red squares instead of green).
They may also have hijacked some genuine accounts.
And there may be other reasons why they are not unregistered.
We can just trust in BL and continue reporting those scammers.
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
Did the link show as clickable or just plain text
Yes, it does as I still have this message
do you know what day they sent it? also please report the user here
ah ok, that makes sense, that was before the updates were made banning links
And I have already reported them. But they are still
here
that may just be visibly, due to recent changes (based on new laws in the eu
i think) there is a whole in depth process for banning and such so even if it
appears on the surface level the account is there, they may be deactivated behind
the scenes, or bricklink may have recovered the account for the original owner
already or such.
This user NesBG is sending scams through the messages that your account has been
flagged and you have to authenticate your account by clicking on the link and
providing your card details. I have reported them, but I thought I'll let
everyone know, just in case.
Have a good day guys
Did they actually send a link? Just the other day links were banned from being
included in messages (please don’t post the actual link if they did)
Yes, the link is included with the message
Interesting, I just tried to send a message with a link and it wouldn’t send
and said
“Oops! Messages with links aren't allowed. Please remove the URL to continue.”
Did the link show as clickable or just plain text
Yes, it does as I still have this message
do you know what day they sent it? also please report the user here
[…]
I just checked my junk and they said that it's not a spam?? What is going
on?
Because it’s not how “spam” works.
For starters, mails are obviously not marked as spam by their author
Servers (sending and/or receiving) can look into messages and try to decide
if they are spam. The operative word is “try.”
To do that, they use “clues” and “heuristics” and “statistics.”
And then your email application/website (which is (about) the same as the “receiving
server” for GMail) use the marking to move the message in the appropriate folder.
But they may fail (both ways: not marking spam as spam or marking ham as spam).
When that happen, it’s up to you to mark it as spam (or ham), so that you email
application/website can learn.
In the case of BrickLink messages, BL doesn’t really look into the messages when
they are sent as emails.
As Nubs said, it’s only recently that BL started forbidding URLs in PMs… but
that’s on the internal message service level, before they are sent as emails
(as sending as email is only an option).
[…]
I just checked my junk and they said that it's not a spam?? What is going
on?
Because it’s not how “spam” works.
For starters, mails are obviously not marked as spam by their author
Servers (sending and/or receiving) can look into messages and try to decide
if they are spam. The operative word is “try.”
To do that, they use “clues” and “heuristics” and “statistics.”
And then your email application/website (which is (about) the same as the “receiving
server” for GMail) use the marking to move the message in the appropriate folder.
But they may fail (both ways: not marking spam as spam or marking ham as spam).
When that happen, it’s up to you to mark it as spam (or ham), so that you email
application/website can learn.
In the case of BrickLink messages, BL doesn’t really look into the messages when
they are sent as emails.
As Nubs said, it’s only recently that BL started forbidding URLs in PMs… but
that’s on the internal message service level, before they are sent as emails
(as sending as email is only an option).
It was sent as a message on here, with the actual link in it
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