Strange on-line happening.....

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Charmedlyfe

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I was on-line at the FALfiles, when I got an IM pop-up. What is strange is that it was from a person I have never spoken with, nor did I recognize. The person claimed to be 'bubbles' from AR15.com. I haven't posted at AR15.com in MONTHS. Further, I've never been in a thread with anyone called 'bubbles'. And yet this person sends me an IM on AOL like they know me. Wierd. Anyone else have an experience like that?
 
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Glockster35

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No, but what did you do? I would have asked them to not contact me again, and then surfed over to AR15.com to investigate who Bubbles is.

But I really wouldn't worry about it too much. By the way, was he/she a female?
 
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Jorah Lavin

New member
They probably just found your IM number in an old post,

or were just spammers doing arbitrary letter-number combos, like a bunch of the email type spam I get.

I got so many silly things like that that I finally un-installed the IM client... haven't missed it at all.



-Jorah
 
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Glockster35

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Yep, same thing I did.

When I get spammed, I delete the e-mail or message immediately, without replying to it, all the reply does is tell them they got a good e-mail address (in most cases).
 
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Charmedlyfe

Moderator
I didn't reply. It was an IM, not an e-mail, and it was two IMs. The first was a 'hi there', and the second was a 'oh, I'm so-and-so from AR15.com'.

I tried running a search over there, but their software isn't as capable as it is here.
 
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dZ

New member
Bubbles is an Second Amendment Sisters member from Northern VA

She's cool

What was the user name in AOL IM that pinged you?
 
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Charmedlyfe

Moderator
Don't remember.....B-sumtin'-sumtin', and some numbers. Very uncool to 'ping' someone you've never met/don't know. Thanks, DZ, I'll relax now.
 
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chink

New member
I agree with ewok.

You can change the setting on AIM so that only people on your buddy list can talk to you.
 
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Charmedlyfe

Moderator
Don't know anything about the buddy list. Don't have one. Oh, if I wanted to 'meet' someone on-line, I'd go to the personals or mail-order bride site. That's not even relevant to this discussion.

Anyway, I'll play with the settings. Thanks.
 
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papercut

New member
Charmed,

"Bubbles" is a gun-chick who I see over on GlockTalk every so often. She's fairly active with SAS, and was interviewed on NRALive a while back. Pop over to the General Non-Glocking forum on GlockTalk[/b] and post a message to Bubbles about it and see if it was her. I don't spend much time on ar15.com so I don't remember if I've ever seen the GlockTalk Bubbles post there or not.... I *think* she posts here sometimes but I don't really remember. I *know* she posts on GlockTalk though.
 
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Charmedlyfe

Moderator
Wow, ToR, you're just so....well, I'll keep it polite. Condescending. I was just being a touch sarcastic. Run along and get mad and cry in your milk.
 
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