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writes:Help please. My partner received a text message sayingEnter your pin (----) at m.zoosk.comI know I shouldn’t look and I mostly don’t, but I do if he has been nasty to me for a while - because I start wondering what is really behind that.When I checked what that was all about I found a dating site. He says it is a scam to get him to pay for incoming texts and calls. I can’t find a profile for him but I haven’t looked on the one for affairs just the normal one. He hasn’t registered his phone by confirming the pin – I checked. He says he hasn’t done anything bad and is trying to reassure me. He is on Facebook – has it linked him? We live together so if he got texts and calls I imagine I would soon know. Is is possible that he was messing about and being an idiot? Is he totally innocent? Is there a person out there who knows? I really don’t want to have to be vigilent, I want to trust him.
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reader, spinnaker  +, writes (27 April 2010):
 it is quite possible it is spam. He could have been surfing one night doing somehting as innocent as reading the news, stumbled onto a popup and a data miner nabbed some info.
It could also be a trojan and malwarebytes takes care of that.
LAstly there are programs the spammers use to get your email or phone number that are basically brute force guessing tools that randomly send messages to millions of combinations. Out of all that they usually score a hit.
Just trying to offer a little context as to what could be happeneing.
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reader, anonymous, writes (27 April 2010): Its strange the site asked for his pin. Thats usually something you have after you have registered with a site. As for finding him online. If he is sneaking about online he wont have set up an account with his proper details unless hes really silly! My partner received a strange text from a dating site once, it said A and B were waiting to chat to him on the site. He said he knew nothing about it all. But i did later discover he had registered with a few sites so his text wasnt an inoccent mistake as described by him. It might be worth keeping an eye on things but if he doesnt have any unusual phone activity, or spend too much time alone online, hes probably inoccent of any misdeed.
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reader, anonymous, writes (27 April 2010): then trust him. he may have clicked on something on facebook or while browsing the net innocently, his reasons sound plausible.snooping and worrying only make these situations worse just remember that if he is lying then the truth will come out eventually, it always does! do you have any reason not to trust him? has something like this ever happened before?
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