Please do NOT respond to posts from our new "friend" Judy. Just report them if you want to do anything.
I have reported the selection of comments but obviously they are getting bolder. It's the weekend - as usual for such antics and there is no-one who can deal with it.
Educate me, what are they trying g to do?
It's so sad that this person picks a place like this to do what they are doing.
We are here for support and advice, not this sort of stuff.
Ok, coincidentally I’ve just had one which is laughably suggestive. But what is the goal?? I don’t get it. This is me by the way, not a troll. I just don’t understand why people go on a health forum. To upset?
Has probably noted this is predominantly elderly ladies group. Forgets there isn't a lot we haven't seen - and laughing at a flasher works...
Best response is no response- if they get no reaction then they give up.
A fire with no oxygen soon goes out!
Yes agree, I saw the post earlier and decided that no response is the best way to deal with idiots like that.
I am delighted to quote the email I have just received:
"Dear Eileen,
Thanks so much for looking after your community and reporting this member.
We have banned him on the grounds he was only trolling members of the community.
Have a lovely weekend,
Pepa Gonzalez"
Who is Pepa Gonzalez ?
Is that someone from HU or the charity?
Glad to see they are on the ball in removing such sickening behaviour from forum life.
Nobody needs that negativity when they are just trying to get peace of mind.
Thanks for the speedy warning xx
Staff at the HU Help Centre. I wasn't sure they are staffed over the weekend - but it was worth a try and it worked.
Thank goodness , although as I was late to the " party " and thankfully missed what was going on , when I read your email I began to wonder if you were doing your job really well and had brought in South American hitman!!😂😂😂😂
No offence meant , it's just such a great name!
Now we can all carry on with a hopefully good PMR weekend xxx
Just do not react at all.
Ignoring as usual. Fighting the natural concern I feel for poor souls who feel the need to troll.
Dear PMPpro,
I have written both on these, and related, pages about 'Scams' and so on (you know the sort- you are 'Owed Money', Great Grandma died, Anonymous Benefactor, The Last in the Line of Millionaires.) The scariest one, that I ever received.....MY Death had been 'Reported', in America- if I gave these 'People' ALL my Details, the "Absolute Loves", would sort it out for me....How Kind!!
So we have now Dropped, even Lower....Fake Members, this is Doubly Bad, since New Members (genuine ones) join all the time. Yes 'Naturally' They use a weekend or, Better Still, a Bank Holiday (beware there are Three coming up soon- Easter, May Day and Spring Bank all starting in a few weeks)…..I'm NOT going to say 'Be Careful', instead I'll say WATCH OUT Everyone, and please, remember to keep your Protection 'up to date'.
I'm trying, to think, of Something a 'Little' more Positive to end on.....Oh yes, a Cleaver little joke....Two Atoms are talking one, turns to the other, and says "I've just lost an Electron" "Are you sure?" askes the second, to which the first replies "Yes I'm POSSITIVE!" (Sorry for the Scientific Joke, I used to work in Laboratories- before I was ill. If you don't understand the Joke, then please do PM me. I will explain all, I promise).
Stay Safe everyone
AndrewT
Hi AndrewT, you have just reminded me about Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Have you seen the white Guiness advert? 100% H2O ...
No not yet, I'll try and find it.
A designated driver drink, I bet it would cost more than Guiness though. Trevor.
No doubt!!!
What is the matter with those people?????
They are probably very lonely people or youngsters up to mischief. Or trolls who can menace a forum such as this one.
My youngest son is in hi tech security and he is adamant that elderly people such as myself and most of us are at risk
I don't answer phone numbers I don't recognize or emails ..
YuliK. Aged 76
Just be careful.
Ah, on that one, our phone number was spoofed such that the ‘line’ and number were appropriated. This means that the ba%**@££s can fool the network into telling people they call that it is our number. So some call minder facilities see a domestic number and let it through so they can cold call. Once they’ve got it they make many many calls until they are shut off. The only sign that something was amiss was when people were calling me back after seeing a mystery number on their call log. On the day I was getting a call back every 1-2 minutes and one lady from Wiltshire had had me calling her with silent calls for weeks. She plucked up courage and decided to call it before calling the police. She was in quite a state. Our provider Virgin came round and said it was a relatively new scam and they did not know how to deal with it at that point. Apparently the perpetrators are going through the phone book and had started in London. All they could do was change our number permanently to a number that came before our old one if compared numerically.
I do like living here - this cold calling thing is almost unknown. Almost - but they are always Italian speaking so they don't get far ...
That's interesting PMRpro. Our cold callers (in England) are almost always Indian - phoning from India. Several such calls per week, usually telling me that my computer is "reporting problems to them" - which they will fix if I let them take over my PC. I gather that they then help themselves to ones bank account etc. Presumably they have some scam or other to get free calls. The result is that you put the receiver down as soon as you hear an Indian voice - which is a bit tough for the honest Indians.
Arthur, we invested in a BT Call Guardian Phone, you need to have ‘Caller Display’ on your Line for it to work, it then screens all your calls, anyone genuine will come through. You also add your family & friends etc & they bypass the whole system.
No More Cold Calls!
If you are a BT customer you can set a "call protect" scheme, which is free. If you get such a call, you then dial BT, enter a given number, 1572, follow the instructions and that call line is permanently blocked.
Has been very useful since set up, number of cold calls greatly diminshed, which is reassuring, as you say, pensioners like ou Rselves are being targetted, and it is very upsetting.
Dear Yulik,
I only have a 'Cheap & Basic' Mobile Phone, However it has one VERY useful 'Function' - 'End Active Call'. Using this means, that the, 'Line' cannot be Held Open- one Scam involves 'them' Holding The Line, so that your Verification Call is 'Them' as well! (If that makes sense???) I don't know if the iPhone Models have this 'Function', or not, I haven't got one- I don't need it.
Just a thought Yulik. Whatever else, please do, take care.
AndrewT
Thanks Andrew, I'll check with my son. I have iPhone 8 and I still don't know half of the functions. 👍
I only visit once a day, haven't seen this but glad they have been removed.
???? Missed this .What ?
Just some idiot with nothing better to do on a Saturday Evening!......
I know how you feel Patricia. It seems that we have missed a juicy bit of scandal. I love a bit of scandal. None of the others seem to want to tell us exactly what we've missed, and seem to be writing of it in "hushed voices" - so it must have been a really good scandal. How very frustrating!
Oh i have been sooo tired missed this,always at the coos tail me.(cows tail)
Will just rubber ear these posts.xxx
me too 
At one time I was getting hundreds of scam e-mails from a Russian lady who wanted me to admire her enormous breasts. Fortunately I think that is the worst I have had. P.S. I prefer to admire my own.
I saw one of the posts,obviously a pervert,thanks for removing him.
Thank you for the warning
_Flashes; Warn of GCA flare
Alendronic acid warning
Early Warning Symptom Perhaps?
Rheumy's concern about infection?
Steroid warning card
