Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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Yes, to both email and to F1m pm. F1m messages started in the last week or so?
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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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I have gotten two PMs from them. One mid Jan and another a few days ago.

Having heard of other members complaining, I never commented on any of their posts thinking I would be spared.

Not the case. So far I have been ignoring them.
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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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Yes, I too have been inundated with their spam, but mine were sent by a friend on
Facebook...
I bought two Alpha Model Kits, the Ferrari 488 Spider and the 812 Superfast,
and very nice model kits they are too. So taken with them was I that on
Facebook I joined the Alpha Model Group. Although I only wanted these two kits
I liked and commented on other peoples builds and WIP's even Lamborghini and
M - M - Mc - M :| the M-team (shock horror probe) :lol: :lol: :lol: Joking aside
though, I started getting PM's and emails not just Alpha but Hobby Design (HD) too.
They were from a friend signed by a Michael and they escalated out of control...
Now I'm not sure about this so please don't quote me, but I have a sneaky
suspicion Michael is Wei Wang who is a Director or something at HD... and I think
a member of F1M... Alpha is part of HD I'm led to believe.
what one can make of this I'm not sure, but I well believe he is fully aware of the
bad taste in everyone's mouths...

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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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Alpha is part of Hobby Design.

Hobby Design has been there for years, why behave like this recently (since last year or so)? Just wondering...... less buyer in China domestically? According to the statistics, the China economic is better than anyone else, if you believe the values......

Hobby Design is a good brand in model making field, Alpha kits are nice. Why acting like this???!
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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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I'm looking into this... not sure how much I can do with the PMs.

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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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A function to block such members would be nice!
Don`t know if it is possible to do, but easy for the users finaly.
Take a stand!

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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

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Same here, only made a comment once and now i get mails. Boring! :evil:
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Re: Anyone else getting spammed by Alphamodel?

Post by f1m »

As far as I can tell, there is no built-in means for a user to block PMs from another user - I've also checked phpBB's plug-in space and there's not one there either.

I really don't want to block wangfrl from PMs, but that might be the only way.

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