Hidden message objects?????

I have a question maybe someone here can answer...I have a friend who is being pestered by someone sending him things that say the following:

The object 'hidden message: B*** F*****' has sent you a message from Second Life:
/me : Good night d******
The object 'hidden message: B**** F*****' has sent you a message from Second Life:
/me : Good night d***** -

I removed the names of those involved, but thought the syntax might be important to figuring out what the heck this is - has anyone seen this before? how do we stop it? This is the second night he has been harasssed by this person, a friend to someone he had a verbal run in with the other day... thanks for any info you can provide!

I think you may be able to mute it by name.

yes - I'm sure we can mute it - but I want to know how it's being done? is this something someone has "planted" on the land necessarily?

It is most likely an invisible scripted object placed somehere on the sim. It does NOT have to be on your friends land. It could actually be anywhere in SL if it is using the instant message method which it seems to be doing... The "sent you a message" is a big clue here. I would have your friend AR the person sending the message under the harrassment TOS violation.

It is a very simple thing to do with a script, it is also a TOS violation to use it in the manner it is being used.


[edited to better answer the question]

Not necessarilly - I think it could be anywhere. It sounds like a griefer object that is spamming your IMs.

If you can find it, you could AR it.

Some time ago, I was spammed by an object with continuous, objectionable messages. It clogged up my email because I get IMs sent to my mailbox as well as the in world messages running up the screen non stop. A lot of other people got hit by this sort of griefing at the time and Linden Lab tracked it down eventually.

I cut the number of text lines displayed down to 2, using the options in the Preferences setting - this enabled me to see what I was doing rather than the continuous display of obscenities flowing up the screen, and I had a live chat with a Linden who talked me through muting the object by name.

I think this kind of muting is all done in the viewer itself. Better to track it down and squash it.

edit: doesn't getting offline IM emails include the slurl of the object sending the message? Should be easy to track down if you know where it lives..

well - we don't know where it lives - but we know who's sending it....the name of the object contains the name of the person! *rolls her eyes*

thanks all!

Muting the owner of the object will also mute the object. That will at least stop the annoying messages.

ah - good idea Skell - thanks!

It appears he have IM to email forwarding enabled. The email should tell the name of the owner and the location of the object.