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Post by Pirkz » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:40 am

Yep didnt open the link though.

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Post by Texas » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:40 am

Mine was from Gilbertemih
I just delete the message & didn't open it

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Post by Pirkz » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:41 am

Yep received the message but didnt open the link. From Sethcomp.

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Post by fishingvic » Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:58 am

Yes, do not open any links!

Please copy the username and post it here.

Then simply delete the message.

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Post by Sebb » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:08 pm

Mine is from : Lancemic
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Post by Lightningx » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:29 pm

fishingvic wrote:
Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:24 am
If you couls post the Usernames here, I'll investigate and start banning the IP's
I got mine from Davesuro.

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Post by croe04 » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:44 pm

If you look at the members list you can see between 2am and 10pm on the 16th and then again around 6pm on the 18th there was a mass registration of all these accounts with similar weird looking names.
I got my message from Marccent btw.

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Post by rb85 » Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:41 pm

Got mine and deleted it straight away so can’t give you a name. Let’s just call him Jasonfish
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Post by Tackleberry » Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:50 pm

Same here but there's no way in hell that I was going to open that link .

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Post by rb85 » Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:07 pm

Tackleberry wrote:
Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:50 pm
Same here but there's no way in hell that I was going to open that link .

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Why not the bot made it sound as if there’s some great content
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