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Spam pm

PostPosted: Saturday May 23, 2009 12:23 pm
by Neil
Hi all

I received via my normal email account yesterday a pm emanating from this forum. Imagine my excitement at being contacted by a fellow devotee about some aspect of the noble art of homebrewing! However, I was pretty disappointed to find that the pm was nothing more than spam/a hoax, containing only a weblink (which I obviously didn't open). Is there anything that can be done about this? Has anyone else been subjected to this malicious attack?

Regards

Neil

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Saturday May 23, 2009 2:53 pm
by Throsby
Yeah I received an email about having a PM here but when I logged onto the forum no such PM existed.

I guessed it was a spam of some sort that the forum filter had blocked or something.

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Sunday May 24, 2009 10:14 am
by Bizier
I got the same email...

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Sunday May 24, 2009 2:38 pm
by 39Niner
Me 4

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Sunday May 24, 2009 8:59 pm
by warra48
Me 5.

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Monday May 25, 2009 1:07 pm
by drsmurto
:cry:

I missed out.....

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Monday May 25, 2009 2:27 pm
by gregb
If you get one, can you forward it to the administrator (Oliver), they are probably able to block the sender etc.

I didn't get any, but that's ok.

Re: Spam pm

PostPosted: Tuesday Jul 21, 2009 12:37 pm
by Oliver
Hi guys,

This was indeed a spam message. I think that what happened was that the spam user created an account and sent a bunch of spam messages out.

I think the reason that in some cases the messages weren't there when you tried to find them is that in the meantime I'd deleted the user, and along with him or her (or it) the private messages were also deleted.

Hope this makes sense!

Cheers,

Oliver