I think our members list may have been targeted by a scammer. This morning I discovered a friend request in my email box which I suspect is no friend request at all. When I followed the link back to the ning, I did not find the request here, and you will observe that the person (a stranger to me) is strongly urging me to email her personally.

Here is the text:

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 princess has added you as a friend on Royal Courts of Second Life

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 Hi,am princess.
 This is important please contact me at
 .....@hotmail.com
 Thanks i am waiting to hear from you soonest
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 To accept this friend request, visit:
  http://royalcourts.ning.com/profiles/friendrequest/listReceived?c=1&xg_source=msg_friend_req

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 To control which emails you receive on Royal Courts of Second Life, go to:
  http://royalcourts.ning.com/?xgo=GHBAnSdFR-S5kpNjB4CMG4F7Vv/2V9DwVJHpG5DYPuVRmrwIUsPLkQ&xg_source=msg_friend_req 

  ETA: I've edited out the email address as she certainly doesn't need more publicity. Thanks! Tat 

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Antiquity Hedgewitch
updated by @tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi: 06 Oct 2016 06:11:21AM

Hello Tiamat

Unfortunatley a spammer did manage to gain brief (probably about 40 minutes or so) access to Royal Courts yesterday. As soon as I found out about it I suspended the account and deleted all content that she had placed on the site. However, I cannot remove Friend Requests or Messages that were already sent.

Needless to say youshould delete any messages received and donot contact her directly.

Thanks

Tatiana

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Thank you, Tatiana. It's unfortunate that we always have to be a bit suspicious, but a fact of internet life! I'm impressed that you discovered her so quickly.

Tiamat

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Antiquity Hedgewitch

Thank you for this alert ~

It proves to me that you are the best administrator we could imagine Vive Tatiana!

I did not get anything lol

No one wants to talk to you MJ. *runs away quickly*

I'm glad that this didn't have too much impact on our group.

My thanks go out to all of our members that help keep an eye on things and let me know when something's not right!!

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