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MyChurch Falls Prey to Nigerian Spam

Published at 09/11/2006 in Cool Websites and Family & Personal. Comments

MyChurch Nigerian Web Scam You may remember my recent post about MyChurch.

I thought it was really cool that I got a personal response from Joe from MyChurch in the comments. Isn’t that one of the coolest things about blogging? One-to-one contact between businesses and customers.

I got my first e-mail communication from someone via my profile on MyChurch. Regretfully, it was a Nigerian scam e-mail. Boy-howdy, those Nigerians are QUICK! That’s too bad too. This could become a really good deal for people.

I just finished joining my church on the site and setting up a group. I was hoping to use the group as a method for our new small group to stay in contact (mailing list, blog, photos) with each other and share. Right now I’ve setup a Google Group for us. I know another friend that’s setup a Blogger page for their group. It would be nice to get this as a new feature for MyChurch. Joe, are you listening?

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  • Thank you Steve for putting balance back in the universe.
  • We can not have good without evil. I have come to fill the role of the black souled evil one. I am the devil and will continue to spread the word of the true ruler of the cosmos, lucifer. Actually, since your christian why did you not simply pray the spammers away? Your helping spread YOUR lords word so should he not protect you and the other people out there from these horrible Nigerian scam artists? Humm, maybe I can sell that product to some other groups, GOD Antivirus, we pray for your viruses to go away and protect your servers with the word of god. Hahah. Seems like prayer power took a major infrastructure hit with this one.
  • Joe
    So I'm still interested in how you're using google groups for your church or small group. What do you like about it? What can we do to convince your group to use MyChurch instead?

    Frankly, I'm actually not familiar with google groups at all, so I can use some education here.

    Thanks,
    joe
  • Thanks Joe for pointing that out. I did that by accident when I went back to the site and caught the error. Just spaced it on inserting the link in my post.
  • Joe
    ps. All your MyChurch links go to MyChurch.com (and not MyChurch.org). Squatters have taken over the .com domain - wish I can afford to buy them out
  • Joe
    Yes I'm listening :)

    Regarding the spammer, we deleted his account and reported his IP address to his ISP. To help stop him and his ilk in the future, users now have to enter a Captcha code after sending more than X messages in Y amount of time - I obviously cannot disclose X and Y :) We're also going to be adding in a Report link for each message to deter future spamming.

    The fight against spam will always be an arms race. We'll put in deterrants, and they might work around them. But I'm confident we'll be nimble enough to stay ahead of the slime.

    Regarding the groups feature, I see you setup a group with 1 member in it (ie yourself) :) Each group does have a bulletin board. And you can use the main church blog and photo album for wiki-type stuff. Is there something specific you're looking for? (send me a mail if so: joe@mychurch.org)
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