Spam

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I was sent the following in my personal messages. It looks like spam to me. Is this common on this forum? Is there a way to block further messages from this person. I have no idea who (s)he is.

Helloo ( From: victorian )

Hello

My name is miss Victoria i saw your

profile today on(forum.piriform.com)and became interested

in you,i will also like to know more about you,and i want you to send a mail to

my email address so that i can give you my picture for you to know whom l am. i

believe we can move from here.I am waiting for your mail to my em...

victorian is a member of the Members group and has 0 posts.

Sent on: Today, 07:08 AM

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Me too.

I viewed her/his profile. 5 people have already viewed.

He/Her must be desperate for love ! !

Alan

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Same here. Bill, I've been here a while and never have gotten a message like that. Wait for a moderator to see what we can do about it.

AJ

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Yes! "CClean" the Spambots in this Forum! ;o]

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Wtf I got that too! Added he/her to ignore list. :lol:

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Wtf I got that too! Added he/her to ignore list. :lol:

You don't need to add that member to your ignore list, he/she/it was banned.

If anyone ever gets any weird PM or spam PM just report it.

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same here, just popped in to the forum to see how wide spread it was.

Poor lonely spammer who wants to send me a virus disguised as her picture.

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When I saw that spam from Victoria in my PM I notified Hazelnut. She hasn't replied yet because she prolly figured I'd see these posts about all this on the forum. She was right.

I bet Victoria is a fat brick layer from Patterson New Jersey.

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Got it also.

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Do we have this patch (PM flood control) installed: http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/2829...p;#entry1794928 ?

I have received the same PM spam on numerous other forums; these guys are very active with their scam. They won't be stopped just by a user deletion; they will sign up as 'Judith' or whatever. (The sign-up and post IP address usually is 196.207.192.198, and the contact address is always something at Yahoo UK. And as we know Yahoo, they absolutely refuse to close these scam email accounts!)

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Do we have this patch (PM flood control) installed: http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/2829...p;#entry1794928 ?

I have received the same PM spam on numerous other forums; these guys are very active with their scam. They won't be stopped just by a user deletion; they will sign up as 'Judith' or whatever. (The sign-up and post IP address usually is 196.207.192.198, and the contact address is always something at Yahoo UK. And as we know Yahoo, they absolutely refuse to close these scam email accounts!)

I've received a PM from 'Victora' on 10th July. I must admit I don't visit these forums very often.

I notice her name is still on the members list.

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I notice her name is still on the members list.

  1. most likely it is not a "her"

  2. most likely the user has been disabled from logging in

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Server has been patched to prevent this happening again :)

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Thanks Mr.G! :)