Hello Freecycle(TM) Members,
This may be a bit long winded, so please bear with me as this is very important.
We wanted to alert you to a spammer that is circulating through our group and others. We are fully aware of the spammer and have removed and blocked them from the group. These auto-bot accounts are email harvesters, which means they collect emails from members that have posted recently or replied to their post (usually an Ipod, Wii or Laptop). This last one was signed by "Diana."
As always, we do not suggest clicking on a link of an unknown website in an email from an unknown person. We do suggest that you forward the email to us (see instructions below) then click on SPAM to make sure you never receive their email again.
We are taking preventative measures to insure the safety of our members by requesting that each new member fill out a questionnaire before they can join our group. This keeps the auto-bots out and allows us to see that a real person is behind the membership that is pending. Charene and I have also been diligently going through each membership within our group to see if there are any visible spam warning signs (IE joining out of state groups, etc.).
If you have had these types of spam sent to you, please forward the entire email (including headers & footers) to the owner's email address so we can track down the spammer and ban them. You can easily do this by going into the email, right click on the page, and choose 'View Source'. From there, you can either copy/paste it in a Word document or directly on the email that you send. It will help us locate where the email address came from and most likely has their IP address on it, which will also help.
Thanks for being such a great group!
Your Friendly Tacoma Area Freecycle(TM) Moderators
Questions? Comments? TacomaAreaFreecycle
QUICK GUIDE TO CORRECT SUBJECT LINE FORMAT:
(Use ONLY one of these four keywords)
OFFER: couch - (Your Home Location)
TAKEN: couch - (Your Home Location) *even if it is pending*
WANTED: garden hose - (Your Home Location)
RECEIVED: garden hose - (Your Home Location)
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Please join our new forum, the Tacoma Area Freecycle Café. It is a place where you can share links, services, resources, community agencies, volunteer opportunities, trade, or barter.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TacomaAreaFreecycle_Cafe
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