Unsolicited Direct Message from ????

It came from "monico"

It read as follows:

Hello!

Greetings.

I am Miss Monic Somba i just want to let you know that there is something
very serious and urgent i will like to share with you.

Please kindly respond as soon as you get this mail so that i can explain myself in a more better way.
contact me back here just for more details ([email protected]) m_somba at yahoo dot com

Expecting to hear from you.
Miss Monic Somba

Of course, I'm not replying to it. I forwarded it on to Kathy S. Just wondering if anyone else has received something like this and if unsolicited messages like this happen to others?

In the message window, there is an icon of three stacked dots, to the right of the trash can icon. You can pick "report spam" or "report abuse" and OH will be notified.

Sometimes people like to come on the site and monkey around a bit, sending spam to a bunch of users. They're usually deleted fairly quickly.

Thanks Julie! It's reported.

Reporting it enables us to id the sender and remove the account. Once you report it, delete and don't respond.

Take care,

Kathy

Member Services

I don't know how to tell you this easily, but you just lost out on several million dollars, tax free.

Haha, good for you for not responding.

Damn! I also lost out on that Nigerian Prince who wanted to make me his queen.

Yes, I got it too. No I will not respond. They did not know how to spell their own name. pretty good give a way.

Sweet,

Unless you've already deleted it open the message, click on the little three dots in the upper right corner, then choose "report spam". (Thanks Julie and Kathy!)

Hopefully the admins will soon delete the profile (that was just created today!)

The account has been identified and removed. We try very hard to stay on top of spammers and spam accounts so it won't touch our community but once in awhile one gets by us. Thanks for reporting and deleting.

yep. It happens, thankfully not often.

The PM function on OH is kind of different. There are lots of ways to mess with someone's account (and head). One thing I've learned pretty recently is to NOT delete the message until it's been reported. All of my messages from different groups dump into one account, or they *did*. I got in the habit of deleting weird or mean stuff reflexively no matter where it originated (facebook, here, another online forum I'm a part of, my email account, etc). It now appears I've lost pretty much everything I had built up here on OH over the last 10 years relationship-wise because of one deleted PM. And that hurts.

Tech services and Kathy have both confirmed there is no way to recover deleted messages here. Just be careful.