I wanted to make the community aware that I have had, in the last week plus, three men follow me and send messages that are obviously spammers asking to text them. They have been reported and all three have been deleted from my profile. Attached you will see the three male names. Be sure to report anything like this. This is a horrible place for people to be scouting out women. I expect this on a dating profile but not here!
Janet
Thanks janet
Thank You Janet, obviously you’ve dealt with this yourself but if anyone else gets similar requests please report them as Janet has done & let the Moderators know also.
Many Thanks
MrsN
PMRpro Yellowbluebell @MrsNails
Not nice...and a reminder to everyone not to reply to anything that looks suspicious - but to report it!
I always check someone’s profile if I don’t recognise the name ......another good reason for genuine members to complete their profiles.
As you say, you don’t expect it on a health forum .....but a sad reflection of today’s society.
And that's why HU needs to ensure there's a members search facility. If someone just likes or follows you can't click on their avatar to check can you?? I haven't found it yet if it exists.
I believe if you click on the person you would see a new page probably no post and just starting to follow people. You can only report once you open the message. I remember some statistics I heard last year regarding online dating scammers and why it's such a problem. The average woman scammed in the U.S. on a dating site is taken for nearly $80,000. That is unbelievable isn't it??? Well, apparently it is a big business.
Won't get far with me - I have no money 
Won't spend it on me never mind anyone like that!
80,000. Good grief. They can have the 52p in my account.
Over the telephone my stepmother was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. (This is why I'm not rich 
) She also passed all the cognitive tests done on her and all we could do was watch it happen.
I'm so sorry.
All water under the bridge now, but serves us right for counting our chickens before they were hatched as we all thought the kids' student loans would be paid off and we'd kind of move up a notch in what we could do or afford, but I can't complain. Life has been good to me, even though very early on it was apparent we were never going to be as well off as either set of parents (and they really weren't wealthy, not even my father and stepmother, at that time). I'm still bemused by the claim that the "Boomer" generation has sucked up all the world's wealth. The scam event, however, set in motion a long string of stresses, major and minor, which I think ended in my going over a cliff into PMR. Could have been worse....
You can find a follower - just go into your profile and you can find those following you. As you can if they PM you.
If someone just likes a post at the moment you can’t easily find them - so at the moment the only option is to report it. Don’t think the Moderators can access their profile, but the HU admin presumably can.
The only way I can find is to look under NEW members.
Great. Thanks. I had forgotten the followers button.
Thank you!
It happens to me on FB now and again - obviously I must be too scary here ...
No possible comment.....🤣😂🤣
Hi,
You have a lovely picture and your full name. If there is any possibility you could be tracked with that info you need to change it. It’s a different world than we grew up in, a lot of bad people live on the internet.
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I suspect using a real sounding name and attractive picture singled you out. Yep it's a different world!
Thanks for the info , I can't fathom the mentality of some of the members of humankind sometimes.
So sorry you got that sort of attention but don't let that put you off the forum , if it ever happens to anyone , I am sure that the hardworking Moderators and Ambassadors will instantly jump to the request for help and let the attack dogs out!
Take care xx
🐩🐩🐕 I could do with a Pitbull emoji....
Janet, may I suggest that you edit your profile and remove some of the private info not related to PMR. I could reduce a chance of future harassment..
I agree with you, sensible advice; too many morons online just looking to latch on to someone.
pigeon.
yes I had a woman asking for money for her child who was I'll. I just deleted
Did you report it to HU as spam/trolling? When you do they remove the person from the site.
You should you should always report before you delete.
Question - do these people only follow those who use human face avatars? Is there a pattern?
It seems they are drawn to photo avatars but not exclusively. It said mostly men to women but some women also trying to use HU and "dating website". I can't remember which forum it was.
no i didn't just got rid but if she comes back I will😊
Always report siran & let a Moderator know please, as we do get reports to us via PM so it helps us to see if there’s a pattern.
On MeWe I get at least one or two a week, always guys, always from the US & often purporting to be Doctors! I wonder why? As yet No Rheumatologist’s with a Miraculous Cure for Us all but l live in hope!.....
We should be so lucky!!!!
Thank you Janet.
Hi this was 9 months ago....but always worth knowing they pop up every once in a while.
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