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Anyone else get this in their inbox?

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Aquamarine1029 · 01/08/2020 02:09

"From: sharonarne1
To: Aquamarine1029
Re: Hi
Just now
Hi dear, How are you doing? my name is Sharon Arnett, it is a great pleasure for me to meet you, please contact me direct to my private email at ( [email protected] ) i have something reasonable to discuss with you only through email and i will also send you my pictures, Thank you
( [email protected] )"

I'm sure it's legitimate.

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LouMumsnet · 01/08/2020 11:32

Thanks to everyone for flagging this one up to us - we're afraid that a particularly persistent and annoying spammer joined us in the wee hours and spammed many of your inboxes.

They've now been banned and we hope they won't darken our doors again but please do report any further dodgy PMs you receive - and obviously feel free to zap any that you received overnight.

Thanks everyone.

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FlissMumsnet · 01/08/2020 22:21

Hi Regulus - you're quite right if MNHQ delete it will say so - the only other kind of post removal is a withdrawal but that will say, "post withdrawn at poster's request".

Hope that helps and glad we caught this sneaky spammer!

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HebeMumsnet · 03/08/2020 10:11

Morning, everyone,

Apologies, we think there was some confusion here. With PMs currently, there isn't a way for us to delete them and let you know that we've deleted them for spamming rather than the sender withdrawing the message. We're deregistering spammers' accounts when we spot them, which also automatically withdraws all PMs. There's no other way at the moment to delete PMs in bulk from users' accounts.

It's something that is on Tech's list of things to do. Hopefully we'll have a fix for it soon but in the meantime, do feel free to drop us a line if you see anything weird in your inbox you want to check out. If it's unsolicited mail from someone you haven't engaged with on a thread, chances are it was spam but we can always check for you.

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