I think I got five already, but I didn't even bother to forward the last ones to WhyYou or Laranger. I deleted them right away.

I don't think the intention is to sabotage the forum or your website, but rather to earn some money with it. (Which is bad enough.)

Perhaps you should see it this way: The forum is attractive enough to draw those spammers here. ;)

Great minds think alike, herr;). I, for one, stopped counting after the 7th "warning".

Now the "spam ads" are changing. Instead of ones for antivirus software, today I got one for an "online pharmacy." When will these damned spam hits stop?

The newest is from AdministrationTeam. One way to tell is a message is not from the administration is to look at the status for that member. If it says "Just Visiting" then that person is NOT an administrator here. All the Moderators and Administrators have either "Admin" or Administrator" for their status.

This is also the same person that has been sending the virus warning PMs. Do Not send a read receipt! Just delete the message without reading it. If you do open the message and a read receipt window pops up, hit the "No" or "Cancel" button.

Any improvements to control these spam PMs will have to be done by Rob because he is the owner of the message board and he purchased the license. We all know how busy he is keeping FTVGirls going. Just bear with it and be patient, he is aware that there are methods to control these problems. He will get it done as soon as he can.

One board I've been on for awhile has a minimum post count of 5 before a person (or bot) can send a PM. Just throwing that out there.

Am i right in thinking that should i get one, it would be perfectly safe just to delete it WhyYou?.

In one word...Yes!

A set up such as this is set up by the license holder. Our message board has not been set up to work that way. In order for this message board to work in a similar manner, Rob will have to set it up for us. As I stated previously, we all know that Rob is swamped with work just keeping FTVGirls running. He is aware about what needs to be done and he will get to it as soon as he is able. Until this is accomplished, be patient and if need be just report any PM spam to laranger or me and we will take care of the problems.

He should have eletrodes clamped to his nuts till they are hardboiled.:eek: I got 3 more of them!:mad:

I think someone is on the rag!:D

She does seem a bit "Testy"..lol:)

Damn good idea though.:eek::D

A few word for Mr. Admin&Moderator (banned)
 

Dear Mr. Admin&Moderator (banned),

I have received your messages and the link attached with it.
But it seemed that this one was a worm, a Trojan, o some dirty kind of beast.

It would enter my computer and read my love letters, my hopes, my grieves.
What would have done this little worm, with my joy, my sorrow and my dreams ?

Well, dear Admin&Moderator (banned), he would have met essentially rational, real and complex numbers, as the strange primes and the amicable one. (So maybe, little worm would have made some friends here and made a comfortable room for himself)

Dear friend, let me give you this rose, for you have done no harm.

http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/74820141/283160

But Beware jealous worms for they may find her,
And The Songs of Experience may whistle in your mind:

O Rose, thou art sick!
The Invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of Crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

WTF???

Seriously, you have way too much time on your hands.

It's like the e-mails you receive at home:
Don't click on every link some stranger may send you. They're potentially harmfull.
Better delete those mails or PMs right away.

The whole case about this PMs is discussed in length in this thread.

FRIEND SARAH,
let's not give weight and importance to those it letter by psychopathic people.

ATTENTION !!

There are messages private create from adminmoderator !!!

We do not have anybody that is titled "Admin&Moderator" or "AdminModerator" who is part of this forum's Administration or Moderators team. These two nicknames have just been used for sending PM spam. Both have been banned from the message board...permanently! If anybody receives PMs from these members, just delete the PMs.

The REAL Moderators and Administrators for this message board do not use these words for their nicknames. Always look below the nicknames for the status of the member. If the status does not say "Admin" , "Administrator" , or "Moderator" then that person using that nickname is not an administrator or a moderator here.

Not you , FRIEND WhyYou ( Or Other ).
I know real that other "imaginary registered" with your "Admin" or " Moderator".
I wanted only understand you members no open link it.

I usually don't check my PMs, mainly because I don't get one. But I had 15 from the first of the year, and 14 of them were all about how I have a virus and I'm going to be banned if I don't run virus program that is infecting the site. Now I know I'm not the best, but I knew that was bogus. So I come here and of course there's a thread for this. I deleted them all.

My first clue was that AdmistratorModerator was "banned" :)

I can't wait to get a first pm from our new member ModerAdmin. Will it be an impotant message telling me my computer got infected by a virus again? Oh, I just can't wait to read it and follow his instructions. So please please spam me ModerAdmin.

He's been banned.

I caught one earlier today (the same person using a different nickname) and banned him while he was modifying his avatar. He never got a chance to send any PMs.

Maby he will tell ya your girl friend is pregnet! lol

Mine actually is. LOL.

What the heck does THIS have to do with Viruses?:eek:

Is this clown a bitter ex-member? I got 3 of them a couple of days ago...:mad:

He is now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Message to Geezer
 

Your Visitor Messages seem to be turned off so I cannot reply to the message that you left me.

I don't know why this is happening to you. It may have something to do with what IP you are using at the time. It may be just a basic forum program glitch and will most likely fix itself the same way it did last time.

Virus warnings in PMs
 

Same thing. More than that
If you google securtytool2010 youll find that this is a virus itself.
BoardSupport is a virus distribution spammer with 0 messages on forum yet able to send private messages. I recommend making a minimum of 10-20 messages before being able to send PMs. This should help.

At this time, the option to restrict new members has not been set up. In the future this type of option(s) will be added to the programming of this message board.

StopSpam Organization
 

I have Googled this and found no such organization. What I did find was several other message boards getting the exact same PM spam.

Any PMs received about Administrators of danielleftv.com reporting members from this message board to the StopSpam Organization are just spam and need to be deleted.

New PM Moderation
 

Due to the recent rash of PM spam that has been troubling this message board, a new members restriction has been set up. From now on all new members will have to make a certain number of posts before they will be able to send any private messages. The number of posts is more than 10 but at this time I do not want to reveal the exact number. Please let me know if this causes any problems for current members. Also, be aware of this restriction when giving advice to new members.

does that count reset since you changed the restriction? because i had posted several hundred times and now do not have access to my PMs.... ha! i said pms... anyway, just want to know. thanks.

That's what I needed to know. I will fix that problem right away.

To all who experience trouble accessing PMs:

I am working on this problem. This will be fixed today. I cannot yet give you any time frame so just be patient.

Usergroups have been modified to the effect of the following:

All members who have 25 posts or more will be automatically moved into the new usergroup the next time that they post. This new usergroup has the ability to not be moderated (however the Moderators will still watch what you post so be sure to follow the rules) and the usergroup will be able to send PMs, etc without trouble. All members who have less than 25 posts will be restricted. Posts will be moderated as well as picture comments, visitor messages, and some other things that have slipped my mind right now (it's been a long night). Also, those members that have less than 25 posts will not have access to PMs in any way. So everybody get to posting a lot...lol! :D

Sounds good to me!

These changes will help slow down the spam artists. Good stuff, admins.

If the spam PM problem is solved, will we be able to send private messages regardless of how many posts we write?