I got a strange message on Facebook. I am not sure how he came to know my FB account, since I did not post it on Hubpages. He is enquiring as to Owlcation. He is aware that I write for Owlcation, but it sounds as though he is not known what HP is. I don't know who is he and where he is from, but judging by his face, he's from South Asia.
There is somehow a similar story like this in the forum before, I forgot the forum post but they mentioned that they also received a similar kind of message but through an email. I agree with @theraggededge, do not reply. It's really strange.
Ignore the message. It's just spam. We receive this type of message to team@hubpages.com all the time.
Do when we share our articles with the 'shorten link' or otherwise factor this kind of problems? I've received emails with my hubpage email, that's not associate with my facebook account. But the emails mostly comes from facebook. However, I don't responded to any email, I'm not expecting, or that which I've not configured the email address with my laptop.
I've even had people ringing me up on Skype, wanting me to be their tutor or kids on Facebook wanting me to do their homework. Just ignore anything you don't like or block as suggested.
The HP team needs to be aware of this man. He is defrauding people using HP. I come across his profile and see this:
Maybe you should email the HP team about this. This is a little alarming.
It’s amazing the amount of effort someone will put into a scheme like this. You’d think they’d wake up and smell the coffee—they could be using their efforts for something appropriate.
I got message request on Facebook.
I didn't answer it..
by John Reid-Roberts 11 years ago
I think being able to send private messages to other users would be a great feature. I have followers who joined HubPages just to follow my content, and I would like to be able to contact them directly, but since they don't have hubs posted this is difficult.
by Audrey Selig 12 years ago
In checking my email, I found early this week I received an email from the above party, telling me they will notify me by email of any errors they find when crawling my site... Did we all get one? I wonder if they are doing it because of problems mentioned by staff early this week...
by goodfriendiam 15 years ago
What do you all think of this idea. Have an option to leave a private message to each other on our profile page. Where we have the option to accept or reject the message and also to help cut down on our private email account(s). So what do you think?
by Mark 13 years ago
I was recently hacked from facebook by a person pretending that she wanted to join hubpages.I sent her some emails from my eail account not thru facebook.I GOT HACKED.Is there anyway I can make sure that they haven't cahged any of y affiliate settings on HUbpages..and Google &...
by Voice of style 16 years ago
I recieved the following email this morning... While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSenseaccount has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Sincekeeping your account in our publisher network may financially damageour advertisers in the future, we've decided...
by Leni Sands 12 years ago
Hi, a friend of mine used to use hubpages a long time ago but cannot now access his accountwhen we go to his account it says that this user doesn't exist, if we try to create a new account for him using his email and/or facebook account it says that these accounts are already linked to his hibpages...
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