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SPAM in Private message

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:32 am
by popuka94
I get 4 spam message in Private,in russian language.

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:03 am
by ikarus1969
popuka94 wrote:I get 4 spam message in Private,in russian language.
From which user? Can you forward me the user-name together with the content of the spam-pm via pm?

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:19 am
by par
There was a spam attack on our forum this night.

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:13 pm
by wotrulike
Hi I've had the same, four today from someone at, support@repkasoft.com, this is a copy of one the emails,
Hello (my name),

You have received a new private message from "unrerssagree" to your account
on "YoWindow Forum" with the following subject:

Деловое предложение

You can view your new message by clicking on the following link:

http://yowindow.com/forum/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=view&p=3874

You have requested that you be notified on this event, remember that you
can always choose not to be notified of new messages by changing the
appropriate setting in your profile.

--
Thanks, The Management)

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:45 pm
by countryroads
Hi,

Pasha, the Author of YoWindow, has been very busy today deleting the Private Message Spam.

We would like to check and make sure that the Spam that you have reported has been deleted. Please let us know if it has been deleted.
We do not like Spam and We Moderators work very hard to keep this forum free from Spam. We are sorry that you were spammed.

Thank you in advance for your information.

Marty

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:29 pm
by maron
Thanks for writing it down here. (I was surching the forum for it)
I was also spammed 5 times by this mail on april 16th.
I wasn`t sure if i should hit the link in this mail.
now i can threw it al away.

:Rose: maron.

Re: SPAM in Private message

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:15 pm
by par
I'm very sorry to all our friends who has experienced this spam attack.
I hope this will not happen again.

Today I have set the maximum allowed Private Message recipients to 5.
It was set to Unlimited before.
So the spammer took advantage of this setting.