The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Faith wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Faith wrote: "Thomas wrote: "This is his profile.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8..."

Joined last month, zero books, 600 friends = spam."

You don't know that, to be s..."

Lots of people follow me who are not my GR friends. Just sayin'.

I don't have a challenge question, but I am unsure about this guy. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the advice. He does have some mutual friends.

Thomas wrote: "I don't have a challenge question, but I am unsure about this guy. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the advice. He does have some mutual friends."

You're very welcome. Any time.

Thomas wrote: "I don't have a challenge question, but I am unsure about this guy. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the advice. He does have some mutual friends."

He does, but his mutual friends are folks with high friend counts who accept requests from anyone. They are great people, but not ones I look to have employed some sort of screen prior to acceptance.

He also sent me a friend request and, funny, he's changed his profile photo today. He doesn't scare me, in terms of spam, but it depends on what you want in your friend profile. I would rather engage with folks and tend to accept and send requests to people who will comment on reviews, like my updates, write reviews of their own and otherwise engage 1:1 on books. There's nothing wrong with approaching differently, of course.

Thomas wrote: "I don't have a challenge question, but I am unsure about this guy. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the advice. He does have some mutual friends."

p.s. I don't have a challenge question and will not jump through hoops to answer others' challenge questions either. I understand that some on GR feel very strongly about the value of a challenge question, but in my experience, that value hasn't been demonstrated on either side of the coin, e.g., having one didn't improve the quality of those who sent me requests and ditching it didn't change that quality, but having one can indeed discourage or annoy the shy and/or efficient. So not worth it to me.

I have decided to pass on his request. I also like to have friends that I interact with.

Carol wrote: "Thomas wrote: "I don't have a challenge question, but I am unsure about this guy. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the advice. He does have some mutual friends."

p.s. I don't have a challen..."

I've had people give me such bizarre responses to my question that I was glad for the opportunity to avoid them. My question (why do you want to be my friend) is just designed to weed out bots, spammers and the unmotivated. I accept most requests, but since I'm not a friend collector, I don't care if I miss some. I don't like having a lot of random people appear above the community reviews on the book pages.

I don't mind that question, but I have found some to be annoying, and passed on sending a friend request to someone who liked 1 of my reviews because of a strange challenge question.

We have a new spammer friend, Lance.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Please flag this message, if you are of a mind to do so.

Carol wrote: "We have a new spammer friend, Lance.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Please flag this message, if you are of a mind to do so."

He and his post are both gone. I noticed it earlier, but thanks!!

Nancy wrote: "Carol wrote: "We have a new spammer friend, Lance.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Please flag this message, if you are of a mind to do so."

He and his post are both gone. I notice..."

Excellent.

This actually isn't a group issue, but I wanted to let you know that I've had to report several friend requests for spam. You might have received these also, which is why I'm posting this here. The friend requests are soliciting a website for e-books; there is a space when you click on the friend request to flag the request itself. I've now had four of these puppies, and support told me to flag them each time they appear.

Just a public service announcement on my part -- rather than just "ignore," flag them first.

Nancy wrote: "This actually isn't a group issue, but I wanted to let you know that I've had to report several friend requests for spam. You might have received these also, which is why I'm posting this here. Th..."

I received a friend request yesterday from an Ohio screen-print T-shirt company that didn’t even try to hide its purpose. I reported it using to contact us form, and received a response from GR this morning that offered an even more efficient method — click on the account’s avatar or user photo, and beneath the photo will appear a flag link, which we can click on to report the account as a spam account. Sounded like advice to pass on to our members.

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "This actually isn't a group issue, but I wanted to let you know that I've had to report several friend requests for spam. You might have received these also, which is why I'm posting ..."

I have received a couple of these also. The most recent I did click on the avatar, but did not see a flag link. Nor any place on the friend profile to flag them. So I just blocked the user.

I've received several of those faux "friend invites." They didn't have pictures and therefore weren't flaggable, so I forwarded the invites to supportATgoodreadsDOTcom.

Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not against people commenting in their own languages, but the same phrases keep appearing so I know it's spam.

I don't go to all of the threads on a daily basis, so if you should happen to see such comments, please let one of the moderators know. I'm sure we will be very grateful. Thanks!!

Nancy wrote: "Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not against people comme..."

It’s endemic across many groups btw. Good luck with ye olde whack-a-mole.

Nancy wrote: "Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not against people comme..."

Thanks, Nancy. I've not noticed it at all..

Nancy wrote: "Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not against people comme..."

I noticed the Korean. Thanks

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not agains..."

Yeah, it's going around both here, and on the web generally. I report it when I see it, wherever I see it. (I hate spammers!) Good luck in the good fight.

Thank you. I did notice it was in a language that I couldn't read.

Everyday I receive multiple emails in Korean? Chinese?
Annoying but I just deleted them. Too much of a hassle to report every incidence.

I'm getting phone calls in Chinese lately - maybe they're the new Nigerians?

Carol wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Dear people in this group:

For the last few weeks I've been deleting comments from what appears to be a scammer who's having his or her fun making comments in Korean. I am not agains..."

LOL. I'm glad we're not alone here.

I haven't seen Korean but I've had to delete several comments trying to promote websites on my book reviews. I've deleted the comments. How does one report them to GR?

Liz wrote: "I haven't seen Korean but I've had to delete several comments trying to promote websites on my book reviews. I've deleted the comments. How does one report them to GR?"

You can always flag those posts, and the GR people are pretty good about getting back to you. Or you can just contact them directly.

This has nothing to do with the SPAM here, but I got a voicemail from Nigeria saying it was from the US government.

Liz wrote: "I haven't seen Korean but I've had to delete several comments trying to promote websites on my book reviews. I've deleted the comments. How does one report them to GR?"

I rarely get comments on my BLog but I've deleted a couple that seem to be advertising health products or something like that.

Well I don't know about all that stuff, but I'm pleased to announce that I won the Google lottery! As soon as I sent my bank account and social security numbers to some email address, I'm going to be a BILLIONAIRE!

Way to go, RJ!

Congrats, snort.

RJ wrote: "Well I don't know about all that stuff, but I'm pleased to announce that I won the Google lottery! As soon as I sent my bank account and social security numbers to some email address, I'm going to ..."

How delightful, lol! Perhaps I’ll find that money tree in my back yard I’ve been seeking for years.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

You are so lucky, RJ... ;0) The first round is on you.

Nancy wrote: "As some of you know, there is a spammer in this group who seems to think that our reader threads are his space to use as his private advertising service. I have deleted him from the group four time..."

You've been reading too many... err...thrillers ;-)