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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 11:22:51

Something odd just happened

I saw a new thread started by someone called FrankBuckland at 10.15 am today about Marks and Spencer being back online. When I pressed the link, it was a post by Wyllow3, not this FrankBuckland.

I thought you should all be aware it might be a scam.

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Sarnia Sat 28-Jun-25 11:26:53

Thank you.

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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 11:29:03

It seems to have disappeared, so GNHQ may be on to it.

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Smileless2012 Sat 28-Jun-25 11:31:54

Thanks Allira, there's been some strange going on recently with some posters names being hijacked. We have a poster called Wyllow but not Wyllow3.

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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 11:34:53

Thanks Smileless2012

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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 11:36:36

Ps I thought we did have a poster called Wyllow3 but not Wyllow!

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fancythat Sat 28-Jun-25 11:51:06

Allira

Something odd just happened

I saw a new thread started by someone called FrankBuckland at 10.15 am today about Marks and Spencer being back online. When I pressed the link, it was a post by Wyllow3, not this FrankBuckland.

I thought you should all be aware it might be a scam.

I thought I saw two by him.
Posted on the 2nd. Regretted it after I did so.

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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 13:41:07

It was odd; his name wasn't on the OP and there was only one post by Wyllow3.

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KellyGransnet (GNHQ) Sat 28-Jun-25 16:27:09

Hi Allira, we've been checking behind the scenes and can see that a new account with the username FrankBuckland was set up today. They posted one spam link on Wyllow3's old thread about M&S, and it looks like we zapped the post completely so it no longer shows up on the thread.

Usually when we remove a post you'll see the message that says 'Post deleted by GNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines' but occasionally we'll nuke the post completely if the user has an offensive username, for example, or if there's an iffy spam link in the post.

Hope that reassures you!

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Allira Sat 28-Jun-25 16:46:21

Thank you KellyGransnet!
That's why I was puzzled, there was no sign of the post.


I haven't seen Wyllow3 posting today, hope she hasn't been hacked.

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