Some one has found a way to send PMs through FAOL without being a member of the forum.
A few months ago it was a long list of non-characters most likely from a translator that did not decipher what was being sent.
Recently I've gotten two of the same messages from the same sender and I just delete them without ever opening them. I get the bulk of the text in the email telling me I have a new PM on the FAOL site.