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Nov 14, 2009 9:08 AM CST Suspicious messages
passion8
passion8passion8Shropshire, England UK3 Threads 158 Posts
I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?
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Nov 14, 2009 9:10 AM CST Suspicious messages
scousedon
scousedonscousedonLiverpool, Cheshire, England UK14 Threads 4 Polls 1,643 Posts
passion8: I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?


Straight from the search results.
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Nov 14, 2009 9:13 AM CST Suspicious messages
bodleing
bodleingbodleingGreater Manchester, England UK238 Threads 8 Polls 13,810 Posts
passion8: I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?


I've just looked at your profile and I wont show up on
your who's viewed me list.

btw way...summer IS over. grin



wave
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Nov 14, 2009 9:15 AM CST Suspicious messages
scousedon
scousedonscousedonLiverpool, Cheshire, England UK14 Threads 4 Polls 1,643 Posts
passion8: I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?


Any consolation is we all get them.
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Nov 14, 2009 9:25 AM CST Suspicious messages
hal115
hal115hal115Dawlish, Devon, England UK3 Posts
It is possible to switch off the 'who's viewed me' function so that you don't see who has viewed you, and other people won't see that you have viewed them.

Also, it is possible to send an email from the search results list, without looking at the profile itself.

So it need not be suspicious.
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Nov 14, 2009 10:21 AM CST Suspicious messages
scousedon: Straight from the search results.
That's also a primary scammer tactic they most always use. It's a lot easier for them as they can see a list of people who's either currently logged on or has been within a day or so, because those are the ones listed first. That makes their chances of receiving a reply much better for them.

Makes me wonder what scammers would do if CS switched it so it first shows profiles that's not been on the longest. laugh
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Nov 14, 2009 10:24 AM CST Suspicious messages
Sundown40
Sundown40Sundown40Houston, Missouri USA4 Threads 1,418 Posts
YouMeUs: That's also a primary scammer tactic they most always use. It's a lot easier for them as they can see a list of people who's either currently logged on or has been within a day or so, because those are the ones listed first. That makes their chances of receiving a reply much better for them.

Makes me wonder what scammers would do if CS switched it so it first shows profiles that's not been on the longest.



wave YMU Nice...I like that idea laugh
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Nov 14, 2009 10:26 AM CST Suspicious messages
Sundown40
Sundown40Sundown40Houston, Missouri USA4 Threads 1,418 Posts
hal115: It is possible to switch off the 'who's viewed me' function so that you don't see who has viewed you, and other people won't see that you have viewed them.

Also, it is possible to send an email from the search results list, without looking at the profile itself.

So it need not be suspicious.


Suspicious?? Are you stalking someone? Or practicing to be a scammer? tongue rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing

hug
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Nov 14, 2009 12:33 PM CST Suspicious messages
passion8
passion8passion8Shropshire, England UK3 Threads 158 Posts
hal115: It is possible to switch off the 'who's viewed me' function so that you don't see who has viewed you, and other people won't see that you have viewed them.

Also, it is possible to send an email from the search results list, without looking at the profile itself.

So it need not be suspicious.


Why would anyone want to message someone from the search list, WITHOUT first checking out that persons profile, to see if they might be compatible? If someone can't be bothered to read my profile, then I certainly can't be bothered to reply to them.
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Nov 14, 2009 12:37 PM CST Suspicious messages
passion8: I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?
This is not a problem to send message wthout profile check ,anybody can do thatcomfort hug
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Nov 14, 2009 12:41 PM CST Suspicious messages
nakosya
nakosyanakosyaAlmaty, Kazakhstan4 Threads 178 Posts
I was always wondered how it is possible to write me without even looking at my profile and some of them write that they really like what i wrote in my profile even not looking at the profile.
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Nov 14, 2009 12:47 PM CST Suspicious messages
Boban1
Boban1Boban1bigplace, Central Serbia Serbia144 Threads 5 Polls 18,789 Posts
passion8: I am the only person who gets suspicious of someone who messages me, when they don't show up in my 'who's viewed me' list?

How is it possible for anyone to message you without actually logging into your profile?


I know how.. but I`m not gonna tell you ....grin
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Nov 14, 2009 12:47 PM CST Suspicious messages
nakosya
nakosyanakosyaAlmaty, Kazakhstan4 Threads 178 Posts
I got the message below recently and thought that something wrong with this message and immidiately reported but he is still online, so now i think may be i am a way to suspicious?

hello

My humble greetings to you and your family at this particular month of the year,my name is *******, am in the hospital in London due to my cancer of the esophagus and as the treatments is going on am looking of a good Samaritan who can take up my project that i have be wanting to start but at this moment i cannot do it since the type of cancer i have ,has no cure so i would like to leave my life saving for a humanitarian organization or an individual who s willing to come up a charity organization to cater for the less fortune kids and orphans who have lost their parents in various calamities and the person will take 20% and 80% is for the project for more information write at its not just a matter of sending e-mail out there but need a seriousness, can i have you contact me on my email so for a better communication
*********@gmail.com
Dr **********
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Nov 14, 2009 12:48 PM CST Suspicious messages
Goddess4u
Goddess4uGoddess4uThe Capital, Greater London, England UK15 Threads 3,131 Posts
passion8: Why would anyone want to message someone from the search list, WITHOUT first checking out that persons profile, to see if they might be compatible? If someone can't be bothered to read my profile, then I certainly can't be bothered to reply to them.


And even more strange is when they write and say how much your profile has touched them yada yada yada and then you find that they haven't even viewed you, like, ever! conversing
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Nov 14, 2009 12:51 PM CST Suspicious messages
morgan5
morgan5morgan5chelmsford, Essex, England UK87 Threads 8,237 Posts
passion8: Why would anyone want to message someone from the search list, WITHOUT first checking out that persons profile, to see if they might be compatible? If someone can't be bothered to read my profile, then I certainly can't be bothered to reply to them.
Because alot of people go by looks not the profile
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Nov 14, 2009 12:53 PM CST Suspicious messages
explorador
exploradorexploradorsmall village, Gavleborg Sweden6 Threads 113 Posts
Goddess4u: And even more strange is when they write and say how much your profile has touched them yada yada yada and then you find that they haven't even viewed you, like, ever!

there are ways to view and read your profile without showing it in your "who viewed me" list
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Nov 14, 2009 12:54 PM CST Suspicious messages
Goddess4u
Goddess4uGoddess4uThe Capital, Greater London, England UK15 Threads 3,131 Posts
explorador: there are ways to view and read your profile without showing it in your "who viewed me" list


help how can that be doh
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Nov 14, 2009 12:59 PM CST Suspicious messages
morgan5
morgan5morgan5chelmsford, Essex, England UK87 Threads 8,237 Posts
Goddess4u: how can that be
Its easy, log out click on search put in a username , profile comes up
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Nov 14, 2009 12:59 PM CST Suspicious messages
explorador
exploradorexploradorsmall village, Gavleborg Sweden6 Threads 113 Posts
Goddess4u: how can that be

In response to: It is possible to switch off the 'who's viewed me' function so that you don't see who has viewed you, and other people won't see that you have viewed them.

and you can search and read without logging in
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Nov 14, 2009 1:05 PM CST Suspicious messages
Goddess4u
Goddess4uGoddess4uThe Capital, Greater London, England UK15 Threads 3,131 Posts
explorador: and you can search and read without logging in


Thats a bit long winded, why would ppl do that in the first place? Maybe they do in fact have something to hide dunno
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