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I am a doctor based in UK and have served the National health service for nearly 30 years. Poetry has been my interest from a very early age and read poetry in Hindi, Tamil and English.
My all time favourite poem is the Elegy in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray, I love Robert Frost, Browning, Wordsworth and Tennyson. I have made a pilgrimage to their birthplace.My favourite writers include Somerset Maugham and Dapne Du Maurier.
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' Home they brought her Warrior dead' is a good example of a brilliant poem written with the simplest of words.

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Hacking into poetry soup accounts

Blog Posted:6/26/2021 1:09:00 PM

Someone had hacked into my Poetry soup account and also into my facebook account and tried to get some money out of my friends in India. They knew something was wrong and got in touch with me in UK. Just to warn you. Be careful about new comers to poetry soup who are signing in and following us. some of them have not written any poetry. I found one today that links to another poetry website in India. I have to block this person. I would ask Poetry Soup mangement to make sure this site is more secure. anyone who signs in should go through some formal identification, otherwise there could be hackers on this site who make life difficult!!

I have not had any luck with PS team responding to anything I have asked of them. Hope they respond to this blog.

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James Marshall
Goff

Date: 7/8/2021 8:33:00 PM

Received same message

James Marshall Goff
Date: 7/9/2021 1:58:00 AM

Hi Krish, yes, was able to delete

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 7/9/2021 12:43:00 AM

Hi James I managed to delete it today!! Just delete without opening it!! opening would create a problem!! TPS, can you please look at this breech?

John
Gondolf

Date: 7/8/2021 1:31:00 PM

I just received the same message that Gary did.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 7/8/2021 1:44:00 PM

YeS, John. This is scary! From the name looks Indian from South India! But the message obviously is a mass message sent to many!

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 7/8/2021 1:42:00 PM

I have received one!! This person has hacked in to the system! I am unable to delete or block!! TPS, please do something and block this person!!

Gary
Radice

Date: 7/8/2021 12:49:00 PM

I just received this message in my comments section of one of my poems: "Greetings. My Name Is Cecilia Vallejo. How are you and your family doing today, I hope all is well with you? First, I will have to say. I am very happy to meet you here and I will be willing to open my heart to know more about you. contact me on my email address: ceciliavallejo487@gmail.com Knowing one another does not take years, it just takes seconds to meet someone and be good friends, that is why I sent you a message in the first place, because your profile caught my attention and I will like to know more about you and be friends with you okay thanks, and God bless you." There was no name or avatar next to this.

Gary Radice
Date: 7/9/2021 7:38:00 AM

Hi Krish - I managed to delete. Cheers - Gary

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 7/9/2021 6:21:00 AM

Hi Gary I have managed to delete. I am hoping TPS will do something about it!

Jan
Allison

Date: 6/29/2021 2:54:00 AM

so sorry you have had such issues Krish, thanks for the heads up:-) hugs Jan x

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/29/2021 3:47:00 AM

Thanks Jan. The most precious thing we have is our ID.

Jenna
Logan

Date: 6/28/2021 12:52:00 PM

I am so sorry you've had to deal with such an issue, Krish. We can never be too careful.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/28/2021 1:01:00 PM

Thanks Jenna. The world is full of fraudsters and we have to keep our ID secure!

Sam
Kauffman

Date: 6/28/2021 10:49:00 AM

Your experience is a true bummer Krish! Thank you for the heads-up! Not only do these unethical and morally bankrupt people try to steal work that is not theirs but try to garner money - that is not theirs! Blessings to you. So sadyou had to go through this....

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/28/2021 1:00:00 PM

Thanks Sam! There are such criminals out there! This guy seemed to know quite a bit about me, but my friends dealt with him well. This is ever present danger of the internet! We must all be careful.

Team
Poetrysoup

Date: 6/27/2021 9:54:00 AM

PoetrySoup is about as secure as you can get. We must remember to be secure with our usernames and passwords so we can minimize the possibility of someone accessing our accounts. Do not write passwords on paper. Fortunately, we have never had a breach of our data in the 15 years PoetrySoup has been around.

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 6/28/2021 3:14:00 PM

Facebook is not connected to individual websites like PoetrySoup.

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 6/28/2021 3:13:00 PM

Additionally, be very careful about accessing any website from a computer used by people whom you do not know.

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 6/28/2021 3:13:00 PM

Remember, when individual accounts are accessed by an infiltrator, they acquired that login information from another source.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 10:16:00 AM

That is reassuring. The hacker seemed to know about anthology of poems and had an image of me from my facebook account. I know PS has facebook page too. Is there a possible breech from there? I have changed all my passwords and deleted some accounts. Any on line site will have hackers. Please check on people who have account without any poems.

Constance
La France

Date: 6/27/2021 7:23:00 AM

Krish, so sorry this has happened to you, hope you can get it fixed. I had my Facebook account hacked once and they put my profile on a site where men were looking for sex and within hours I had hundreds of friend requests from all over the world, and getting more by the second, that was a mess to fix. And once my email was hacked. I got all that sorted out also. But, I have not been hacked here on PS, although I have had poetry stolen, that is the risk we take posting our poems on the internet. I do not trust anyone with no poems posted and it should not be allowed, no poem, no account should be the rule. And even more disturbing, I have received soupmails from people not even soup members, peace _Constance

Jan Allison
Date: 6/29/2021 2:52:00 AM

I do have an on line pal who doesnt write poetry but logged on to comment on a poem i had written, bt yeah i too have received odd soup mails offering various services and another spam wanting cash, sadly this is the way of life these days bust be scam and spam aware xx

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:27:00 AM

Hi Constance I can see how scary that can be!! FB is a disaster and I am gradually getting out of it. You are right about poem submission before membership rights. There one person who follows me from India and when I checked it is a poetry web site. People can easily steal poems too. Yes TPS should reassure us and develop better security for this site.

Eve
Roper

Date: 6/26/2021 8:39:00 PM

Thank you so much for your warning.. I am always afraid that this will happen.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:29:00 AM

You are welcome, Eve. Lost identity can be very damaging.

Hilo
Poet

Date: 6/26/2021 8:22:00 PM

Appreciate the admonishment, Krish and Joseph, whereto, my son has added safety programs for the former types of situation to be less of a concern, albeit, the latter I had addressed in my blog (There were two entries that did not belong in the contest and were appropriately ignored.) I anticipated TPS's predicament in such a scenario. Instead, mayhaps we may request TPS for their removal?

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:30:00 AM

Thanks William. I remember you highlighting this very problem previously and it still remains a concern. TPS to act!!

Unseeking
Seeker

Date: 6/26/2021 8:21:00 PM

Point to ponder. While empaneling, we share our email address for verification. Don’t know about digging deeper, many like me prefer anonymity, not only here but on other forums as well.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:31:00 AM

Thanks Seeker. You can still remain anonymous to others but you will have some ID with TPS who can keep it safe. That way we know who is trolling us, should something happen.

Joseph
May

Date: 6/26/2021 7:43:00 PM

Thanks for sounding the alarm Krish, sorry this happened to you, PS really needs to improve the security on this site, It is time we demand a more secure site. Once I asked them if they could stop people who constantly enter irrelevant poems in contests, They said they could do nothing about it. I was stunned.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:33:00 AM

Yes, Joseph. Not hard to do at all. Just needs commitment. TPS should respond after so many have raised concerns so many times!

Rama
Balasubramanian

Date: 6/26/2021 7:17:00 PM

That's worrying Krish. Good you informed all of us. I feel soup should remove all those accounts which have no poetry posted in them. They should increase security. Have a wonderful weekend friend

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:38:00 AM

Thanks Rama. I agree! Yes, I shall share the poet who is following me without any poems. He has an essay on what is good poetry and a web link to a poetry website that he is running.

Tom
Cunningham

Date: 6/26/2021 2:15:00 PM

That's worrying krish, good job your friends thought something was amiss, thinking it might have been you doesn't bear thinking about they might have parted with large sums thinking they were acting in good faith. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We must be forever vigilant because the internet can be a dangerous place and you could be a victim of some scam. Might be a good idea to change passwords on a regular basis like you do with email accounts. Tom

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/26/2021 2:59:00 PM

Thanks Tom. Hacking is big business! worrying.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 6/26/2021 1:58:00 PM

Sorry this happened to you, Krish. I hope Soup will respond to you. I DID notice a thing now that asks in Soupmail if I'm a robot or not!! Maybe your complaints inspired this??

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 6/27/2021 9:50:00 AM

Yes, we just added that feature to cut down SPAM. It is new.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:36:00 AM

Eve Robot feature stops hackers who use a software to hack into random accounts.

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/27/2021 7:35:00 AM

Hi andrea Thanks! If that feature has been introduced that is good. But TPS should remove those who have no poems but just join in! They could just be stealing our work.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/27/2021 12:18:00 AM

I use Soupmail all the time, and I could swear I only started noticing that feature very recently!!

Eve Roper
Date: 6/26/2021 8:35:00 PM

if I am a robot just started yesterday, when I try to comment . What is that?

Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 6/26/2021 2:58:00 PM

Thanks Andrea. That feature has been there for sometime. PS should check id before letting people join. There are many who just sign in and walk around the site.

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