Who Do You Think You Are Magazine Forum

[Matt Elton]

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all well! Over the past couple of weeks we've had a number of 'people' (I'm not sure whether they are actual people, or just bots) posting spam messages across various parts of this forum. I know that this can be annoying, so apologies.

In order to speed up the process of deleting these messages – and to avoid cluttering up the forum with posts about spam – I wondered whether you could alert me to any new messages by posting in this thread? That way I can easily check for any updates every morning when I get into the office. Of course, if you'd rather contact me directly, you can always drop me a line at mattelton[AT]bbcmagazines[DOT]com (replacing the bit in square brackets).

Hope that all sounds okay. And any other suggestions, do let me know!

Matt

[meekhcs]

Hi Matt
Thanks very much. This must be a real pain in the .......for you!

Sally

[ColinB]

Good morning Matt ,

Hope you had a good weekend. I just wanted to alert you to spam messages on the Feedback
Forum , posted by afra99.

Kind regards

Colin

[Matt Elton]

Hi Colin,

Great spot, thank you – the offending message should now have been dealt with. Any more rogue posts, give me a shout...

Cheers,

Matt

[ritah]

A spam message has appeared on 'General TV show discussion' headed travel agency, this was posted at 10.41am today.

Rita

[Matt Elton]

Found and deleted. Thanks for letting me know!

Matt

[phsvm]

Here's another headed - "The advice of select handbags" in the Over To you section.

[phsvm]

and again in 'This Year's Series' and again in 'Photo Help"

[Matt Elton]

All three deleted. Thanks for this, you're all very vigilant!

Cheers,

Matt

[ColinB]

Hi Matt,

On the Tracing Individuals Board / William Overington thread , new member Betina has
posted a link which invites me to ' Start your Death Date Prediction Test' - not really what
any of us wants to see on the Forum !

Colin