I just noticed this at the bottom of a page I'd posted on:

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A member here received an unsolicited message--PM, I'm pretty sure--that, although apparently innocuous, was unwelcome. It was an invitation to participate in something at the member's listed location.

My first guess was that it came from a lurker who happened to be at the same location. But now, having just seen the above, I am wondering:

is it possible for someone to set up some kind of program to scan the internet for mentions of certain locations, then let the programmer know? Should all of us who have our locations posted along with our names take them off?