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You are starting to get a serious spam issue
it would be good to be able to report fake profile

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inbox spam.

There is a member who constantly puts up spam porn or fraud related messages in personal profiles. He or she is http://mubi.com/users/1144757/wall. Please ban them.

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Ban the Spamer..

Hello everyone,

Thank you for reporting this, and the user "Lilly" has now been muzzled. The issue is that every time she's flagged, reported, and muzzled, she opens a new account. We've passed this on to our development team...It's on our list of priorities, and we'll find a permanent solution to banning her as soon as we can.

I haven't even watched a film yet having registered last week and this popped up in my email yesterday.

"GREETINGS FROM Lillian ................................................
Hello
My name is miss Lillian viewing and going through in your profile today has made me to became interested in you,i will also like to know you more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so that i can send you my picture, for you to know and see whom i am.
Here is my email address(lillian2love_desmond@live.com) believe we can move from here!
I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.
Lillian .
(Remember the distance or colour does not matter but love matters a lot in life)
PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GO DIRECT TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW TO CONTACT ME NOW...................................................................
HAPPY TO READ FROM YOU
BYE....
lillian2love_desmond@live.com"

To write on lilly's Wall, follow the link below:

http://mubi.com/users/1178515/wall

Thanks,
The MUBI Team

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SPAM.

Hi Steve,

Welcome to MUBI -- but I'm sorry to hear about the spamming experience! We've muzzled that "user" and deleted all content she's put on the site. I hope that helps!

Lilly's back again: http://mubi.com/users/1183723
It's rough for new people because our only options are to go private and deactivate our accounts. If Lilly is not paying MUBI to spam our profiles then she becomes your problem too.

Hello Christina,

Thank you for letting us know, and I'm sorry for the bad experience. Our two lines of defense at the moment are muzzling a user, or banning their IP address from the site. However, "Lilly" keeps logging in from different IP addresses. Our lead developer knows about this, and we're looking to launch a permanent way to ban this user from site as soon as we can.

Hi,
I just joined today and within an hour of joining I've already been spammed.

This is the message I got:
"
HELLO

Hello,
My name is queen i saw your profile here (mubi.com)
today and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you the more and estabilish a relationship that is bassed
on truth and trust with you i want you to send an email to my email address so i can
give you my picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address
(queenkarume@yahoo.com)
I am waiting for your mail to my email address above please i have something
very very important i will like to tell you.I believe we can start from here!
Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life.
queen.. (queenkarume@yahoo.com)"

I thought I'd report it before deleting the message.

Thank you

Hello Christine,

I'm very sorry for this, and thank you for reporting it! The spam user has now been deleted from the site, and their account should be gone within the hour.

Here's another spam user:
http://mubi.com/users/2555139

Hi i am Vicky Joseph Hello How are you today i hope fine and in good health , i saw your profile today and i read it and after reading it i must confess that i like it and if you don t mind i will like you to write me on this id (vickyjoseph22@hotmail.com) because i have something very important to tell you and also send to you my pics thanks Yours Vicky

There should be a way to report spam and/or block a user. I use the site quite extensively and get something like this every few months. While it's not the biggest deal (for me personally, can't speak for everyone), it is annoying when one is trying to get into some serious discussions and network with other people who share your same interests and occupation.

Thanks for any help you can give with resolving this issue in a more comprehensive way!

Here's another spam user who even has ratings and favorite films!
http://mubi.com/users/2568002

I've been getting these bots following my profile, maybe because I've rated many things and have a big watch list as well, so I'm connected to a lot of points across the site. I'd hate for my participation in the site to make me more vulnerable to spammers.

Ugh.

I was spammed 3 times today. Please get it under control.

Dear Justin Fanelli,

I'm sorry to hear that. Did you flag the comment or mail, so we can block or delete the spammer?
You can also send us the link to the profile here and we will check it.
I hope you understand, that if these are manually done spam-profiles we can ́t do much about it until they get reported.
We take flags and reports very serious, so thank you very much in advance for any spammer you report.

Best regards,
Maximilian
MUBI Support Team

Similar message to one earlier in thread (and other similar threads) received from this account. I flagged it, will delete it now. Thanks.