[talk-au] Strange friend request?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Thanks, fellas.

All the page I got from "Megan" says is:
"The user Megan Ritchie does not exist

Sorry, there is no user with the name Megan Ritchie. Please check your
spelling, or maybe the link you clicked is wrong".
So I guess she was already deleted before I got to even see it?

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 18:42, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones mentioned).
> In the one example that I got to before the user was deleted, the profile
> had a link that claimed to be to a porn site.
>
> If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the "report
> user" button in the user profile and report it as spam.  The admins tend to
> delete them fairly quickly.
>
> If "there is no user with that name" then it means that someone else has
> reported the user already and they have already been deleted.  I believe
> that (or the user renaming their own username) is the only way that a user
> can appear as not existing.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 8/29/21 2:12 AM, nwastra wrote:
>
> I have also been added as a friend by user ‘Debra_Devries’ but on going to
> the link which seems legitimate, the user does not exist.
> Maybe my new friend has to do some edits before coming in to existence for
> the link?
> Thanks,
> nevw
>
> On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...
>
> Open up the e-mail this morning & there's an OSM message (which certainly
> appears legit?) to say that "this person" has added me as a friend.
>
> That's nice, but it appears to be a real name that I don't know, & when I
> go to look at their user page, it says that that user doesn't exist?
>
> Anybody seen this before?
>
> & if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who should I report it to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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