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Greetings from The Bear...

I do see a few names I remember and many new ones,
hello to you all...

Well I never expected to be back here but I received
this e-mail today...
Who is this person?
Does anyone know her...
How the heck did she find my name, I have not been on
since 8/30/06...

So Peter and Mike whats going on?
Did anyone else get this?

(The E-mail)
This is a message sent to you from mwa40 (mariam_farouk0001@yahoo.fr)
via The Reiki Cafe
Profile:

If this is Spam mail, please Flag this user by clicking on the
following URL or copying it into your web browser:

------------------------------------------------------------

MARIAM ALFAROUK
ABIDJAN, COTE D IVOIRE
Tel 00225 08157757
EMAIL: mariam_farouk0001@yahoo.fr

Dearest,
I am very happy to contact you because i have the desire of going into
long term relationship with you for our mutual benefit. I have an
important project which i want to disclose to you as we make progress, but
right now what is necessary is our understanding and faithfulness to
each other to enable our relationship which possibly will lead us to
many mountains.

Please do not be confuse as i did not state clearly of what i have in
mind, this is because i want us to know ourself more better before
embarking on the project which i will let you know as soon as i get your
respond to this letter.Please use my personal
email(mariam_farouk0001@yahoo.fr) to reply for me to get back to you as soon
as possible.

Thanks and hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours Mariam.

Well I guess I will saunder back into my Den...
Please take care of this Peter & Mike...
Prayin you are all OK...

Thanks
Bear

Bear,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- thanks for letting us know that you have been disturbed by some unlooked for mail

- however, if you bother to click on your Cafe name you will see that your E-mail contact thru The Cafe is active so I am not sure I see the foundation of your complaint

- and to insinuate RC's name into this again will not do much to further your case

- otherwise, I have not heard any complaints from anyone else

- perhaps you got the mail by mistake?

- if we hear other instances of unwanted mail from this person we will act responsibly

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Bear,

This is spam mail. Unfortunately, any site that has a significant number of people attracts these spammers. This problem came up a while ago and to limit the damage they can do, I implemented two security measures. First, each person is limited to only sending 10 messages a day. Second, each message has a link that allows you to flag the sender. After a few people flag the sender, this user will not be able to send any more messages.

because these people are manually logging in and sending messages, there is no way to completely stop them, however, if everyone flags these people as soon as getting one of these messages, then it will make it extremely difficult to do any real damage.

Lastly, each user has the option weather to receive any emails through your profile. So if you turn it off, then nobody can send you any messages.

I actually have a whole private messaging system almost done, but i have been rather burned out recently so have not been making any upgrades.

-Mike

Mike,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- many thanks, again!!

>:-}}

- and, those wishing to e-mail may certainly exchange e-mail addresses for direct contacts and then turn off their Profile stuff again

- asking someone if they would exchange addresses is certainly easy enough when one responds to a Post

>:-}}

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Thanks for all that you're doing to prevent this.....truly appreciate it....