Website Send A Message Facility

As part of your membership profile, ANLP provides a ‘Send a Message’ form, so that potential clients and students can contact you directly from the ANLP website.

We provide this service because we deliberately never share or promote your email address directly on our website, so we reduce phishing and scamming challenges.

This is just a ‘failsafe’ option, to cover those who may not have a website or social media profile links on their profile, allowing potential clients to connect with you in the moment, whilst they are feeling motivated to take action.

Sadly, like so many internet-based services nowadays, this facility can sometimes be the target for less than scrupulous people on a phishing expedition.

At the moment, rather than withdraw this facility altogether, which takes away a valuable contact point for your potential clients, we offer these guidelines:

• If you receive contact from a member of the public via an ANLP Send a message form, please reflect before responding:
• If there is a genuine ‘business opportunity’ being offered, it is much more likely they would have contacted ANLP to verify and circulate to the whole membership, rather than use the direct message facility on our website.
• Consider checking out the contact – do they have a linked in Profile or appear on Facebook. If they are claiming to be some professor or prince, it is very likely they will have a presence on the internet somewhere!
• It could be a genuine enquiry (most of them are) …just be aware that there are, sadly, some people out there who wish to exploit your kind nature for their own gain.

To clarify, if you do receive a message via the ‘Send a message’ facility, it is a message from a member of the public, not ANLP or someone representing ANLP. Our website is still secure and we have not been hacked - this is a message facility available to anyone who views your profile.

For further advice on potential fraudulent offers, please read this Metropolitan Police article