beaver Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have found 2 PMs in my inbox with a link saying "new forum rules" and "project news" I realised that these weren't legitimate, as they were from banned users, so someones complained about it already. The website they point to is: http://nemf.ru/ By doing a quick Google of the url I came up with several other forums having people send them the same pms. It would seem to be a fake pharmaceutical company run by some Ivans with links to the Russian Mafiya. They are posing as a Canadian Pharmacy. The website now only shows up with a 502 error. Is there anything that we can do to stop these spammers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 farward them to a mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Can't do a thing if we can't see 'em, so what he said ^. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaver Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 Someone had already done that it would seem, as the person who had sent me the pm got banned before I read the messages. What I want to know is if there are any measures taken to stop his from happening in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Turn off your PM box if you dont want to get messages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaver Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 So far all you people have come up are temporary solutions, what if I or someone else getting spam wants to receive other pms? I'm saying that we need a long term, permanent solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 farward to mod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 So far all you people have come up are temporary solutions, what if I or someone else getting spam wants to receive other pms? I'm saying that we need a long term, permanent solution. You can also set up a buddy list of friends and have your PM box setup where you only get messages from your friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Here's what you need to do, Some how find away to stop all spammers in the world. Well, that's it. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 So far all you people have come up are temporary solutions, what if I or someone else getting spam wants to receive other pms? I'm saying that we need a long term, permanent solution. Unless you can forward the spam PM's and tell us who sent them, we can't do jack. There are 11000 accounts on these forums, we can't babysit them by hand anymore, so we need you to help us help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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