strange message

[1 jersey girl]

has anyone ever received a pm from someone looking for ideas or inspiration, out of the blue? someone i have never dealt with or heard of pm'd me today with an urgent request for design ideas and included a phone number and email address for an immediate response. is that typical?? otherwise it freaked me out a little! please give me some feedback.. thanks donna

[laurakj]

I have never had that happen, I would tell a Mod about it though. It's kinda creepy!

[MSBetsyZ]

I would second this...forward this to a mod. That should NOT be happening.

[Mahloumel]

Definitely weird sounding! It is probably innocuous; some people just don't think to explain how they heard of you or why they decided to PM you, and that's the info that can make a creepy PM into a friendly one. But, just in case it is not, forward the thing to a moderator!

[Angelicmyst]

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Originally Posted by 1 jersey girl

has anyone ever received a pm from someone looking for ideas or inspiration, out of the blue? someone i have never dealt with or heard of pm'd me today with an urgent request for design ideas and included a phone number and email address for an immediate response. is that typical?? otherwise it freaked me out a little! please give me some feedback.. thanks donna

My guess would be they saw something you did and Liked it.
Some people are REALLY out going.
Maybe she needed t find out before Mothers Day or something... Still not the way yo go about it but *shrug* I would just send her back a PM .

[GarnetJ]

I am with the majority. Forward the message to a moderator. You will find their names at the bottom of a Forum page ie.... "General Stamping" or "Suggestions and Questions." It could be that a person has actually joined SCS in order to do "phishing."

You might send a PM reply (only if you really want to) asking the person to be more specific.

We do have a couple of developmentally challenged members who might send an awkward sounding request. They don't mean to be "scary" but simply have not learned social skills.

[Sairabee]

It's possible that she meant to send it to someone else. I have tried to pm Karen (jusgottastamp) a few times, but mistakenly sent my messages to justgottastamp... And I'm sure she thought they were totally off the wall and potentially creepy too!!