A Caution and a Quick Reminder

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Just a reminder to all the membership that this forum and all other forums like it are open season for SPAMMERS... Right now, on the forum "with you", there are the following:

CURRENTLY ACTIVE USERS: 707 (18 MEMBERS AND 689 GUESTS)

All of those guests are "not members". A few are people who just haven't yet joined the forum but are looking at posts. A few are "bots" from Google, FaceBook, Twitter and a few marketing firms. Unfortunately, there are also "CROOKS" from Russia, Romania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, China and other locations around the globe where RV's just aren't that popular. Many of them are logged into the forum, specifically looking for information they might be able to use to separate you from your wallet......

We recently had one member receive an email (at his private email address) asking him if he'd like to be paid to allow someone in the UK to post occasional articles on his "blog". He was assured the posts would be short, properly worded by an "English major" and he would be compensated for his help in providing a place for this person to post.

We are looking into how his email address was obtained, we don't believe it has ever been published in any post on this forum, but are researching to confirm that.

So, a CAUTION to everyone: If you get any email at your private email account, offering you something (benefits or cash payments, etc) please proceed with caution. It may well be SPAM or a "mining operation" to gather more personal information for later use by those CROOKS.....

As always, YOU are your own best guard against SPAM and against being mined for personal information. Should you get any email asking for information or offering to pay you for anything associated with this forum, please do not reply to that email and please notify a member of the site team via PM of the incident. This is not a request that you send ALL your SPAM, only that which is clearly related specifically to your membership in THIS FORUM.

Thanks