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Lasher 09-13-2007 10:28 AM

Our first Spammer.
 
A couple of hundred people got PM spam in the "send me your bank account info and we do great business together" type style, which means our first spammer made it through.

I know the extra manual step to verifying accounts before they can post frustrates some people, but it really does help keep spam down on the forum. It turns out the "users awaiting confirmation" group could still PM others.

That user group can no longer use PMs (but can still use the "contact us" link if they have problems) and all PMs from this specific user have been removed so most people will never even see the spam.

Thanks to those who reported it.

Jazuela 09-13-2007 10:42 AM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I didn't get one of those spammer PMs. I feel unloved.

Xerihae 09-13-2007 10:43 AM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
It seems the deletion of the spammers PM has thrown the PM count out. My PM box still shows 83 messages (as it did when I had the spam) but I only have 82 messages in there. Inbox and Sent Items count is correct, just overall number that's affected.

Newworlds 09-13-2007 11:56 AM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I didn't get this spam, but I haven't had a private message in about 5 days and all of a sudden it showed a new private message. Very odd, because I couldn't find it and it wouldn't go away until I deleted about 20 old messages then it disappeared as if I hadn't read one of my old messages (Which I had, I had zero new messages for the last 5 days).

Samson 09-13-2007 12:05 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 


While primarily intended as blog spam protection, where it excels I might add, there have been a number of efforts to use the tool in forum packages as well where it should be equally effective against spammers. There's no reason it can't work against PMs just as well as it would against postings.

Edit: Interesting - how does vB know to put the page's title in the link?

prof1515 09-13-2007 12:29 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Thank ****ing god that for once I didn't get the spam. Been getting a lot on a couple of my emails lately and it's nice to know one spambot missed me this week. :)

Fizban 09-13-2007 06:30 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I got it, and just so those of you that don't feel loved due to not getting it don't feel left out....



Fizban 09-13-2007 06:32 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
My count is also off like Xerihae's is.

KaVir 09-13-2007 06:33 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I got it twice, but it doesn't make me feel loved.

Fizban 09-13-2007 06:35 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Hmm, I'm wondering what criteria their program used to determine who to send them to.

Lasher 09-13-2007 06:46 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
The unmoderated user group can't view the full member list so my guess is they were following links from posts.

Fern 09-13-2007 06:53 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Hopefully this got reported to Fraud Watch International. They keep track of the sources of Nigerian 411 spams like that one, and other types of course. If you do receive something like this via email, turn on long headers and forward it to for their action.

You can also see a list of the latest fraud and phishing attempts on their main page at - very handy if you suspect you've received a phish.

Please tell older folks (like myself, for instance *grin*), parents and grandparents who may be new to the net and unaware of the damage that fraud and phishing emails can do - help them get aware and stay safe. One of the most recent is an IRS refund offer that is warned about on the IRS website itself.

Brody 09-13-2007 09:00 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Nice. Well, may they burn in that special circle of hell reserved for fraud spammers!

Ilkidarios 09-13-2007 09:55 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I don't have any spam, but a little pop-up telling me that I have a new PM keeps coming up but when I check it it's just the same old ones. Is that a side-effect?

Darren Brimhall 07-19-2014 10:05 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Sounds more like a Movie Plot


Darren Brimhall

Ghostcat 07-25-2014 08:48 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
The message is highly entertaining, thank you.

Jazuela 07-26-2014 06:05 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
This about important information. Must be for thank in most times.

Darren Brimhall 08-01-2014 08:27 AM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
Lately though, I've been getting a lot of spam that starts out "Hey sugar, you were great last night." and so forth.

That I just tag as it is and let Yahoo deal with it.


Darren Brimhall

Hades_Kane 08-01-2014 11:24 AM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
You guys realize this thread is like 7 years old, huh?

Ghostcat 08-01-2014 03:01 PM

Re: Our first Spammer.
 
I blame Darren.


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