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I've been spammed by Carol Baskin

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Real Estate Agent with Jameson Sotheby's International Realty

Boy, the Alpha Spamster has been busy.  I awoke to find these four messages in my direct messages from the spammer overnight.

I still don't understand his/her motivation... he posts no backlinks, he just posts this nonsense alphabetic text.  There's no real message... they're not trying to send you to some website, not trying to sell you something.

And they're persistant.  These four messages were sent directly to me... not even posted publicly.  It seems to be one of the "benefits" of having a featured post.

Joe Exotic... er, I mean the Alpha Spammer cruises the Feature Blog Roll and sends these direct messages to the top four or five featured posters.

Actually Joe, who's serving 22 years in the pen might not have the time to send these, since he's incarcerted and has limited, if any, access to the net.

Mayhap it's his nemesis, Carol Baskin, who's guilty of sending out all of these Alpha Spams.  Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else, right?

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Rose Mary Justice
Synergy Realty Pros - Dandridge, TN
Synergy Realty Pros

I know this must be so annoying but hey you are more  popular with your feature.  Maybe they will leave everyone else alone.

Who knows their motive!  Just someone with a lot of time on their hands.

Apr 09, 2020 06:00 AM
Alan May

clearly more time, than sense.

Apr 09, 2020 11:47 AM
Bob "RealMan" Timm
Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND
Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker

Alan May it is actually possible that the messages come from someone incarcerated. I receive occasional emails from our local correctional facility because of my ministry there BUT each facility has different policies and most screen every piece of info that comes in or goes out.

Apr 09, 2020 06:34 AM
Alan May

You'd think that they would have tired of it by now... I know I have.

Apr 09, 2020 11:47 AM
Brian England
Ambrose Realty Management LLC - Gilbert, AZ
MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ

I have been seeing them pop up fairly often recently, I had 4 this morning, haha.

Apr 09, 2020 06:34 AM
Alan May

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same 4 I had.

Apr 09, 2020 11:48 AM
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker

Hello Alan... it was my "good" fortune to have recently had two featured posts... and that brought out the alphabet spammer big time. I hate to jinx myself by saying I haven't seen the problem for a couple of weeks.

Apr 09, 2020 06:43 AM
Alan May

I can't believe you said that out loud.

Apr 09, 2020 11:50 AM
Sam Shueh
(408) 425-1601 - San Jose, CA
mba, cdpe, reopro, pe

The auto spammers seem to have taken a vacation. At home 5:30, 6:00 PM I get a daily blast 2X that seems to have be quieted down. Installed a software identified if the caller is a spammer on my smart phone. I get more on Mondays and meal time. Harassment from Zillow seems to have gone away. I found out they laid off 7% of employees.

Apr 09, 2020 07:27 AM
Alan May

Apparently they're back from vacation, Sam.

Apr 09, 2020 11:50 AM
Lottie Kendall
Compass - San Francisco, CA
Helping make your real estate dreams a reality

Yep, it's an annoying problem for sure. I pity the fools who have nothing better to do with their time.

Apr 09, 2020 10:43 AM
Alan May

I pity the fools, too.


Apr 09, 2020 11:51 AM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Not sure how they keep getting through the AR system. Reporting them is the only thing you can do, very often they give an email address, maybe they are trying to lure you to click on that and doing so will infect your computer with a virus or it becomes a trojan horse.....

Apr 09, 2020 11:46 AM
Alan May

There is no "vetting" process for comments.

Apr 09, 2020 11:52 AM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS
Fathom Realty Washington LLC - Tacoma, WA
South Puget Sound Washington Agent/Broker!

This poor spammer doesn't know you are on to him and his spamming ways...

I hope you had a Happy Thursday Alan May 

Apr 09, 2020 08:16 PM
Alan May

Oh... he knows, Paul.  He knows.  He just doesn't care.

Apr 10, 2020 05:45 AM