“News Flash” Site Member Welcomes Spammers to MyLot
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
French Polynesia
December 18, 2015 3:44pm CST
I had to look twice, clean my contacts and look again to make sure I was awake and seeing what I saw. Around midnight, here on the islands, I was waiting for a hard drive to finish cloning. I came to the site to keep awake. Now guys this one is amazing. First in MyLot history I think. Maybe not, but it’s a first in the time I have been on MyLot.
In Recent Posts I noticed around 20 or so new posts from I believe it was 3 new people. The posts were filled with garbage. Well more than likely it is Chinese or some other language the site does not support. Anyhow you saw a lot of ?????, erroneous characters and lines of random symbols, letters and numbers.
Here’s the best part. I opened the posts to report them and guess what I found. A member from this site commented on the post. No it was not a report comment, but a comment welcoming this person to MyLot. This person was rolling out the red carpet to the site and so happy to be the welcoming committee to greet this new Spammer to MyLot.
I almost fell off my chair laughing so hard. I basically woke up my partner who was sleeping on the job. He fell out of his chair and was not so happy with me. After this he joined me at web searching to find some funny things to keep us entertained.
This post is because of “Forever The Grinch” and his post “Another one bites the dust” I commented on his post and it reminded me of what I had seen. I had to share it here with all of you.
Image source - personal purchased clip art image collection
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
I can't tell I am sworn to keep my fingers locked. But yes I am sure you've guess this one and know who it is. It is a first for me and I had to laugh. I woke up Andrew laughing so hard that he thought the heads had crashed again on the drive. He did fall out of his chair he was sleeping in. I am not sure which one made me laugh harder the post of the look on his face. 
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@yukimori (10148)
• United States
19 Dec 15
Has this member been welcoming members to the site for a while now? I suspect I've seen them around... and have also had a few good laughs in the process. 
@poehere I suspect the combination of the two was a priceless contribution to the hilarity of the situation. 
@poehere I suspect the combination of the two was a priceless contribution to the hilarity of the situation. 2 people like this
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
I have no clue. I guess they were able to read the garbage and ???? all over the screen but I had no idea what they said at all.
Well anyhow they were welcomed and they were canned and all the post removed before I went home at 3AM this morning to sleep.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Dec 15
I recall trying to help someone that I thought actually had a problem and then later I saw the Grinch had explained when had transpired on some other one and I realized what was going on. I hope that these you speak of have been deleted. This is exactly what I meant by my comment on your post the other day. I think the biggest problem is that people don't read the guidelines and TOS on here You can write up help for newbies all day long but if they don't read them it is a major waste of time.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Dec 15
@poehere ...There are a few members on here that are not that far away from spammers I had one bugging me for a while.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Dec 15
@celticeagle The one who did it isn't a spammer. I know this one for sure.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
This was pure spam and no need to read the guide lines. I believe they were written in another language because they did not show up on the site correctly. Normally in cases like this it is Chinese characters or Arabic characters that report like this.
No they were all deleted and removed but it did strike me so funny a person actually commented on most of them and welcomed them to the site.
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@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
19 Dec 15
never respond or opened some of those post, i remember one time not sure if that was the case but they were hackers in mylot back then. and those suspecious characters could be a way to download viruses into your computer. The only option is to report them, next time I'd just report the user, im always with checking post with strange letters.
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@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
19 Dec 15
@poehere of course, not all chinese do that. I've seen most of them to be our vets too.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 15
I reported 2 spammers who plagiarized 2 posts. I believe their accounts are now deleted. Is this person's account gone now, my friend?
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
19 Dec 15
Now I am starting to think that welcome posts by some members are posted by a "robot"!
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Dec 15
No you are missing what I have said. A spammer came to the site. No 3 to be exact. They posted a ton of spam on the site. You couldn't read it at all. But one member here on the site welcomed them like it was normal or they could read what was said. The stuff they posted was not in English and it showed up as ???%^*)%^$#&() on the site. How can you say welcome to MyLot to stuff like this. But the person did anyhow and was so happy to welcome them to the site.
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@godsmack423 (82)
• Flint, Michigan
18 Dec 15
Thats insane.lol. To funny.
I have reported 1 person so far, it is crazy how many poeple spam just to try and make a buck here at MyLot, it goes a lot faster when you just type and have fun on your own time and not worry about the money. Yeah the site pays, but i also wants everyone to come together and have fun.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
You are so right it is insane but it did happen. I was laughing so hard and I could not believe my eyes. I did refresh the screen several times to verify what I saw was really there. I was sure it was shadows of my eyes closing from lack of sleep. But no it was there this person welcomed the spammer to the site.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
Do not worry site removed them around 2 or so my time. Nobody really saw them unless they are on another time zone. Plus over half of them you couldn't even open the title filled the screen 5 times. So they were blocked and could not open. I was not sure how all the comments got on them but they were there.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
@Asylum You can start to keep a few of my hours and try and stay away till 3 in the morning. Maybe then you will find some nice surprises like I have found lately. I normally miss it all like you but recently I have seen a lot. But in any case I do miss some and wished I had seen them too.
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
19 Dec 15
I don't like Spam, either as a food or as a means to corrupt my computer.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
20 Dec 15
With you on this one. We all try to stop it when we can. I don't see a reason to answer to these people because they will be deleted soon.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Dec 15
@poehere wow for a split moment I thought oh no not you then I kept reading so the welcomer was probably a pal spammer. How come these new people no matter what nationality do not bother to read the rules?is it because they do not care? Thanks for sharing. Were you on the old mylot? just thinking I do not remember so much spamming. there was a lot on bb just before it closed
@allknowing (137781)
• India
18 Dec 15
May be the one who welcomed the spammer should be banned too (lol)
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@allknowing (137781)
• India
19 Dec 15
@poehere I know they will not be banned. That's why I put the (lol) there.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Dec 15
@allknowing I knew you knew this one. I was just saying it to make sure others knew this one didn't happen.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
19 Dec 15
I know for sure it ain't me! As I've been too busy to check up on my followings
@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
20 Dec 15
@poehere lol I know you didn't. Was funny
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
20 Dec 15
@Drosophila Yes it was but I just wanted you to know I didn't mean you.
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Dec 15
Mmmh i have not seen that. We need to be careful or else we destroy this beautiful place
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
This surely makes me laugh. I don't still see how this person welcomed them the way they did. You basically couldn't read a word on the screen. All that was on the screen was stuff like this @122??????^^&**%$*())%#$# So basically I can; see how this person understood a word of what was being said. But anyhow they did comment and welcomed them to the site. It was rather funny.
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@HanVanMeegerin (1161)
• United States
19 Dec 15
@poehere I just read your post. I am just finishing one up that is similar to yours. I didn't get my idea from you. Mine is based on own personal experience. If you would like me to link yours from mine, I will.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
20 Dec 15
@HanVanMeegerin Sorry missed all of this. Did not come on at all yesterday because of work. We all decided to work very late and start very early. We wanted to take off part of today and go to the opening of the festival here on the islands.
@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
6 Feb 16
I can imagine who it was. I will say that if it is her, she does have some challenges and has told us about it.
@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
19 Dec 15
Perhaps the person who commented was able to decode the secret message in the discussion? 
Now I know why I seldom come across these "weird discussions", as I have not spend time in exploring other discussions yet. I am always hanging around in the discussions posted by the mylotters I am familiar with. I guess I'll need to spend some time to explore "new" discussions and to help getting rid of those spammers. 
Thanks for sharing this with us, and it helps us to be more aware of those spammers - they always came out with "great and funny" ideas!
Now I know why I seldom come across these "weird discussions", as I have not spend time in exploring other discussions yet. I am always hanging around in the discussions posted by the mylotters I am familiar with. I guess I'll need to spend some time to explore "new" discussions and to help getting rid of those spammers.
Thanks for sharing this with us, and it helps us to be more aware of those spammers - they always came out with "great and funny" ideas!
@xstitcher (32703)
• Petaluma, California
18 Dec 15
What on earth--??? Maybe the "welcoming" member was up late and their brain was tired/not in their right mind...?
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Dec 15
Yes this is true. No joke and no lie. I had almost forgotten about this and passed it off until I read the post from the Grinch about another one bites the dust. He was on plagiarism and it brought this one up to my mind. I went in to hit report an a site member had commented on the post. I think it said something like this "Welcome to MyLot I am so happy to meet you." I almost fell off my chair laughing so hard. There was just garbage on the screen and you couldn't see anything it said. No joke it really happened.
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