Health forums, such as Natural Medicine Talk, are very inviting targets for spammers. Some people are paid just to get links 'out there', whether they're for products, services or website promotions. Many are from other countries outside of the United States.
Spamming can be done directly, or in a more sneaky way, indirectly. They post "leading" messages which forum members reply to, and once they're comfortable on the forum and 'trusted' by the other members posting on the...
Here are several snippets of some forum-related comments made by a few NatMedTalk members in past posts. Our community here is what makes NMT a quality health forum for both visitors and members alike.
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Originally Posted by ozzie
...I would just like to say how pleased I am that I found such an informative forum on natural medicine, it has taught me so much already.