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stiffler3492 Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:21am

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 809016)
I answered, and he said he was in Illinois, so I referred him to a couple regulars here from there. Haven't heard from him since. Just be sure to not give any personal information. I would just refer him to names and numbers that are already publicly available.

Good advice. There seem to be quite a few of us from Illinois on here.

BillyMac Thu Dec 29, 2011 07:13am

Maybe He's Asking "Experienced" Members ???
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 808972)
They must be only messaging the esteemed members.

Then why did I get one?

tjones1 Thu Dec 29, 2011 07:51am

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 808978)
I told him to PM the Illinois guys.

I got the message too.

Gave the poster my two cents.

For what it's worth, Larks was also on my PM.

If I had to guess, I doubt it's spam based on my PM...but I could be wrong.

Raymond Thu Dec 29, 2011 09:39am

Damn, I thought he came to me b/c of my excellent posting history. :mad:

Rich Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:02am

I didn't reply, but only cause I didn't have time. I would've replied that he can get a better range of answers by posting on the public forum.

Scrapper1 Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:02am

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Originally Posted by stiffler3492 (Post 809014)
I got it, and the message said that The_Rookie also got it. Any evidence that it might be spam?

The only evidence is that seemingly the exact same message was sent to multiple people at roughly the same time by a user with zero posts, when it would have been much easier to simply post in the forum. That smells to me like an automated process.

Not definitive, by any means, but very suspicious to me.

refiator Fri Dec 30, 2011 01:21am

Obviously not just the "esteemed" members....I got it as well. See no reason not to try and help out. Any way he is targeting "veteran" refs??

BktBallRef Fri Dec 30, 2011 01:27am

I had my PMs turned off. :)

grunewar Fri Dec 30, 2011 05:13am

Inquiring minds want to know......
 
So, now that several of you have replied - anyone get a thank you or comments back from your reply?

Scrapper1 Fri Dec 30, 2011 09:31am

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Originally Posted by grunewar (Post 809282)
So, now that several of you have replied - anyone get a thank you or comments back from your reply?

Excellent question. I'm betting no one has.

Adam Fri Dec 30, 2011 04:26pm

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Originally Posted by Scrapper1 (Post 809302)
Excellent question. I'm betting no one has.

I had a reply to my follow up question, nothing since.


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