Or, "Why Can't You Guys Just Find Gainful Employment?"
So there's been this rash of spammers running rampant on Fanfiction.net as of late. You get a PM from somebody who tells you how much they love some random fic of your's and that they want to draw art for it, only for them to gradually reveal they want money for their "gift art". And their PMs and story reviews are always chock full of spelling and grammatical errors.
The general consensus from people is to block these individuals, then report them so their accounts can be removed. I completely agree that that's the best course of action, but I've been getting hit with at least twenty of these spam messages recently and wind up finding myself either too tired, too busy, or just not in the mood to sit down and try and report every single account.
Just...
Yeah, I've been getting them too. At least they make it easy for us to spot their true colors. Heck, I've been getting into the habit of answering in random ways myself whenever they've popped into my inbox. I would tell you here, but in the event some of them are ready my response, I will instead tell you in private what I've been doing, if you're interested!
ReplyDeleteI was doing some reading on one of the FF.net forums and saw at least one person there who said they fell for it. I figure this had to be a much younger person.
DeleteOh, now that's funny and clever! Yeah, please do share! I'm curious now and could probably employ your tactics myself.