Hello members, As part of my job in being an ADMIN is to be on the lookout for suspicious activity to protect the integrity of the site. This site is helping many people and that makes me very happy. So I frequently check the LOGS to see if I notice any suspicious activity and well last night I noticed a New member signed up a few days ago and then signed up with another user name. First he signed up as "tyscn" then a few days later he signed up as "Kidneypatient" what brought "Kidneypatient" to my attention was that I noticed he/she never posted but sent out several PM's (Personal Messages) to other members. So did something that I do not do and that is I opened up my .SQL file. (A SQL file is basically a text file that holds EVERY piece of text posted on this site, posts and pm's. It is how the site remembers all of our posts) And not to my surprise I was right this members is a Spammer/Organ seller. In several of the PM's to our members he had 2 persona's, one he is a kidney patient in South China waiting for a transplant, another time he is a Doctor offering transplant services in South China. He used a few different emails and they are as follows:kidneypatient@gmail.com \ Username: Kidneypatientdoctorthomastau@gmail.com\ Username: tyscntyscn@yahoo.com - He also used this email address.His I.P. was the same on both accounts. His I.P. which stands for Internet Protocol (is basically your computers address) is as follows:I.P. Address 221.137.129.166When I emailed him politely asking him why did he have two accounts he said he had no idea, Then he emailed me again and said, sorry that he just called his wife (at almost midnight) and she created the "tyscn" account for him. I never let him know I knew the truth. I told him "ok that's fine, and welcome to the board." I want him to see this post so I am not totally banning him (YET!) I am just going to stop him from posting. I will ban him after I know he reads this. You may ask yourself well can't he just use another computer? Well yes but the great thing is if I see someone else with a similar IP, I will ban the ENTIRE IP range. 221.x.x.x.xxx.xxx.xxx It's like a wild card. Will it affect innocent people? Yes it will affect a few million Asians in Asia. However that is the chance I am willing to take to protect our site. Besides we get VERY little traffic from Asia and we currently don't have any members from Asia. So If I have to, I will do what ever it takes to keep this site safe for you. I truly value our members. Below is one of the PM's he sent some of our members:(I did NOT spell check, I kept the message original, as he sent it.)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'Glad to know you through internet. Here I write you to introduce us as the biggest and most famous and key transplant center in South China. Now our business scope include Heat transplant,liver transplant,lung transplant,kidney transplant, kidney pancreas and multi-organs transplant. You are welcome to visit our center. Here I world like to give you some more info about service we can supply 1. Short waiting period. Fast and expedient process to locate compatible donor organs in as short as 15 working days usually or even shorter. Perhaps you know in China, there is no national organ sharing system like UNOS in North America to allocate organs throughout the country. The matching between transplant recipients and donors are done locally in hospital. Every hospital has its own source of organ donation. For transplant candidates, the pace of receiving organ transplant is much dependent on their relationships with transplant doctors and the premium prices they are willing to pay for getting on the priority waiting list. Through our special arrangement with our counterparts located throughout the country the kidney transplant waiting time for westerners in China can be greatly reduced. 2. Travel and accommodation arrangements Patient arrives at the airport and is brought to the hospital by our special representatives 3. Pre-transplant preparation and logistics All baseline investigations will be repeated such as donor-recipient cross-match etc.. Immunosuppressive medication will be started for the donor by the nephrologist. The Cardiac, Surgery and Anesthesia teams will visit the patient for assessment. The patient will undergo hemodialysis. At the same time donor candidates will be admitted to hospital and undergo series of laboratory tests. 4. Transplantation operation production After transplant recipient will be sent to ICU for 3 days about 5. Follow-up care and full treatment Recipient shifts back to awards.Recipient undergoes laboratory tests and evaluations for renal function and is seen through convalesce.Recipient stitches removed, discharged from hospital and sent back home. Referred back with all hospital and procedure notes to his/her original nephrologist. Seeing-off at the airport. 6. Money-back Guarantee prior to donor matching, the transplant surgery is unable to proceed in China or after the transplant surgery arranged by us the customer passes away in China directly resulting from operation or its post-operative complications or the situation of the customer is worsening and no longer suitable for a transplant surgery in China Straight hospital expenses include any expenses incurred in hospitals or prescribed by doctors such as the following but not limited to: medical check-ups, examination tests treatments such as haemodialysis, medications prescribed, surgery cost accommodations in hospitals nursing 7. Safety Our transplant surgeon has done more than 2,500 kidney transplants and 400 liver transplants etc and the nephrologist has supervised pre and post operative treatment of over 2,000 transplants. The team anesthetists are very familiar with patients and have the experience of transplant surgeries. The team also consists of cardiologists and pulmonologists should their assistance be required. The most important fact to be considered is that the patients are in absolutely safe hands. I do think that our program consultants, physicians, surgeon specialist and nurses combined with our modern facilities ensure that each patient receives the best care in a supportive and clean environment. Now China has made great strides with transplant surgery in recent years, with survival rates approaching those of the US. As you know China has been the sencond biggest transplant country in the world. Which in some extent give a good explanation of our technology. They are even pioneering new drugs and new techniques that are being tried in the US. Many of the doctors there were trained in the best transplant centers in the US. Therefore you can rest assured that you are in the safety hand. There are still many foreigners think that place like China is still under-developed, and no way they can receive a good medical attention there. This type of common expression mainly due to the wrong media image that passed out by the public media. In fact, place like Shanghai,Beijing,Guangdong is a highly developed modern city just like New York, people here work in sky rocket office building just like most Americans do. Hundreds of thousand foreigner expert work and live regularly in city like Shanghai and they do get good medical attention through the local hospital facilities. It doesn't mean that any hospital in China can help your need, but we do. We have already done surgery for foreigners from worldwide like Japan, Cambodia, Phillipine, and Americans from TX and Maryland etc. and now they enjoy their new lifes freely. Upon any query please write me or call me we can supply their contacts for your check or consultancy for details. It was affordable for the charge compared to the over priced medical expense in US. Please feel free to contact me for further detail upon any question.I am very sorry if this email arrive at you wrong. Very appreciated if you can do us the favor to refer it to approriate persons. Just one email perhaps it can change another person life. Please help! Thomas Tau South China Transplant Center Tel: +86 21 6242 0590 +86 139 1649 4519 Fax:+1 425 969 6155 +86 21 6242 0590 Email: doctorthomastau@gmail.com------------------------------------------------------------------------------------He also sent PM's to some members trying to befriend them, but it was all an act. He was just setting you up to be scammed.I'm going to ask all members to please report ANY PM's like this to me immediately. NO ONE DID. Why? also I guess I will have to create some forum rules now, I didn't want to have a rules post (well besides Spell checking) but I guess I will have no choice. And one of those rules is NO member may have more than 1 account. So in closing please disregard any PM's you receive asking you to go to South China or to be his friend because he is a fellow patient, he is not neither, he is a loser.Other dialysis message boards have gone offline because of abuse like this, I won't let that happen here.Thank youEpomanOwner/AdminP.S. it wouldn't do any good to contact his ISP (Internet Service Provider) There is a 98% chance that they won't be able to track him, and 99% chance they won't give a damn and ignore me, and a 100% chance that it won't solve a global problem.UPDATE: 5/14/06The Spammer registered more accounts and I deleted them, they were:kidneycradlekidney123Thanks "Hyperlite" for being on the lookout.
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