NEW MEMBERSHIP DENIED?

[Frank Ford]

Lately there has been a daily barrage of obvious spammers applying for membership here at FRETS.NET.

Some time ago, I added those simple questions to weed out those bots or people who obviously don't belong, and every day I deny the membership to a dozen or more automated responses (usually two random letters).

Sometimes, though, I do manage to push the "deny" by accident.  PLEASE try again to register if that happens to you!

Cheers,

Frank

[Frank Ford]

Got the report, dumped her this morning (I think)

[Katrina Joyner]

I'm glad that didn't happen to me. :-)

[Chris Locati]

Thanks Frank! I got a random phishing email through this site. It was easily recognizable so I just deleted it but in any case, I appreciate the due diligence! 

[Mike Semenock]

This morning I got a private message on my forum page from an Erica Woodward asking me to contact her privately on an email address. I reported it to Frank.

Also, I noticed in the site URL address I had a warning symbol and "Not Secure" message. I checked with Google and it said to replace the URL prefix with https://fretsnet....etc. Then the notice changed to a padlock icon and said Secure.

Weird.

Mike

[Perry Jones]

I just joined this forum within the last 24 hours.  I got a friend request from "member" Ronald Morris.  It sounded phishy so I looked at the membership list.  I doubt that someone from Togo has "something important to discuss" with me so I am not responding.  Having seen Mr. Ford's post about scammers, I thought it prudent to post this event here.

[Frank Ford]

Perry -

Thanks for the heads up! As with any other "questionable" members, I dropped him immediately without comment. . .