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Old 02-04-20, 12:51 PM  
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Question I received a PM from "katemystify?"

I received a strange PM requesting a trade from someone named Kasia aka "katemystify." There is no one by that name in the Member list. I don't trade anymore which made it even more strange.

How can someone who isn't a member send a PM?

ETA: I found her profile page. Still don't now why I was sent a PM. I haven't done a kettlebell workout in years.

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Old 02-04-20, 01:18 PM  
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I got a PM from that username too. I did reply that I wasn't interested in giving up any DVDs and suggested she try the request the wealth thread.
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Old 02-04-20, 01:31 PM  
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I got one, too. I told her I wasn't interested.
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Old 02-04-20, 01:55 PM  
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Years ago when VF was still very active someone hijacked my prior screen name. I was not active on the forum at the time. That person stole from VF'ers who thought they were trading with me.
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Old 02-04-20, 03:19 PM  
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Eek. We haven't had an addition to the "bad trader" list in years.
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Old 02-04-20, 03:36 PM  
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there was a time a few years ago when VFers were getting "spam" PMs from someone, not for trading, but just robot-sounding types of PMs.

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I tagged this thread with "spam PM" - there's lots of threads about other cases on VF. in one case, Wwwendy shut down their account. as such, if you get one from the perpetrator, please post here.
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Old 02-04-20, 05:16 PM  
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Oh oh. I got a message from her too. I wasn't interested either. Hmmmmmm
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Old 02-04-20, 05:19 PM  
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copying a post from Wwwendy from another case regarding getting the user's account disabled:

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I also should add that if this happens again (a VF account gets hijacked in order to spam), please send me a quick email with the name of the account and that will help me get it stopped ASAP.
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Old 02-04-20, 06:22 PM  
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I got one from her too wanting to trade. She mentioned noticing that I posted about a certain instructor whichI haven’t done in ages. It seemed really strange.
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Old 02-04-20, 10:01 PM  
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I also received the same PM yesterday, very strange.

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