The Sword and Laser discussion
Have scams come to Goodreads?

It happens from time to time, I had similar messages twice since I joined Goodreads. Report the sender, the admins are good at fighting spam.

Now... I am a Nigerian Prince currently residing in Switzerland. I would like to offer you the opportunity to to bathe in a tub of riches. All I need is your Western Union... *trails off*



Well there are those that read the Twilight books ...
Nick wrote: "Mr. Noah wrote: "I guess I was just naive. It never occurred to me to try to scam avid readers. It would seem they would be a more skeptical audience."
Well there are those that read the Twilight ..."
+100 :)
Well there are those that read the Twilight ..."
+100 :)

A lot of the people here seem quite young. As Nick noted, reading alone doesn't make you smart, reading critically and carefully, might.

And if you're quietly wondering why I had a fully exposed back pic as my profile pic but didn't want untoward attention from it, it's because the tattoo is associated with one of my favourite book series, and I felt like here at good reads that'd be a positive thing :p

Actually, I'm wondering why I don't recognize the book series it comes from. What's the book?

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Is it my deodorant?"
It's the "P." in "P. Aaron". Reminds of a good-ol' dog whose tongue is flapping out the side.

Will we see more spammers with the Amazon merge? I don't really use amazon (from NZ) so I have no idea if that's something that happens with them.
P.Aaron, you must need to use more mascara or something, it's fairly obvious that your eyes need to 'pop' more to attract this kind of lovely attention... Yep..*cough*

Is it my deodorant?"
Try changing your pic to that of a (generic but pretty) young girl, remove the 'male' from your profile, and see how long it takes to get a dozen!

From Nancy?


Be a guy, it's the only way to deter the "OMG I'm fapping so hard to your posts" ever-virgin contingent.

That has never happened to me on GR
That is um well freaky and um a little odd "the reality of love" oh please

That has never happened to me on GR
That is um well freaky and um a little odd "the reality of love" oh please"
fappity fap fap
/kidding

That has never happened to me on GR
That is um well freaky and um a little odd "the reality of love" oh please"
fappity fap fap
/kidding"
LOLs
Fresno Bob wrote: "So, what are you wearing? :D"
Funny!

I've never had the kind of spam at GR that the OP mentioned...I'm not sure if I'm happy or disappointed. ;)

Three goats and an alpaca."
That's hot!

Three goats and an alpaca."
That's hot!"
How YOU doin'?




So many jokes, so little time.



Still probably a guy.

I mean according to the messages they sent me they are incredibly nice people who could tell how amazing I was from my blank GR photo.
They are obviously a good judge of character, I wonder why they can't find love... :P

Here is the message I got today.
my name is miss Nancy i am a single girl never married.
i saw your profile today,i will like to be your friend and i will like to know more about you,i believe in reality of love,please contact me back with my email(nancypaulson28@yahoo.com)so that i can tell you more about myself and for us to know more about each other,i await your mail.
thanks Nancy
Obviously, I am a gorgeous hunk of man-meat, and am used to being hit on, but has this happened to anyone else?