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Private Message Spam

Post by Dreamstryder »

On the 2 and 17 this month I was PMed by user Lyagushkka some spam about XRumer. This is the Wikipedia entry on it. Don't run a search it; apparently someone wants you to up its search ranking, and Lyagushkka is a robot in disguise (gasp!).

I just want to help anyone else who has this problem, and I don't know how to report PMs.
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Re: Private Message Spam

Post by Jandar »

Dreamstryder wrote:On the 2 and 17 this month I was PMed by user Lyagushkka some spam about XRumer. This is the Wikipedia entry on it. Don't run a search it; apparently someone wants you to up its search ranking, and Lyagushkka is a robot in disguise (gasp!).

I just want to help anyone else who has this problem, and I don't know how to report PMs.
Thank you, Dreamstryder.
Only today, I received the very same PM. While I didn't open it (and generally don't accept spam messages from unknown senders), I think this whole scheme is really annoying because when I get a note that I have a PM from a message board, I think it's something urgent from a friend.
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Post by Clay »

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it happens, and while I try to prune obvious spammers, when they don't make a post to the forums publicly, they can sometimes fly under the radar.

In any case, I've deleted this user, so you shouldn't get any more PMs from that bot, at least. I went ahead and made a scan of other recently registered users with suspicious details and deleted them as well.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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Post by Galeros »

I got both too.
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Post by calibur1 »

On the 2 and 17 this month I was PMed by user Lyagushkka some spam about XRumer. This is the Wikipedia entry on it. Don't run a search it; apparently someone wants you to up its search ranking, and Lyagushkka is a robot in disguise (gasp!).
So what you're saying in that this spammer is hiding among us as a truck or jet plane?
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Post by Clay »

Now, let's not jump to conclusions, Calibur.

...he could be a car!
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Post by The Fifth Wanderer »

What's odd is I found two emails in my Hotmail account notifying me of PMs from Clay...
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Post by Salith »

And now spam from MannInBlackk
"Hello, friend. There are viruses' activities from your computer in last few days. Strongly recommend you to check your computer. You can find a report about your computer's security and solve every problem with it here: URL REMOVED
Thank you. Forum member."

[edit]And again today.[/edit]
Last edited by Salith on Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Oni »

I received the same message.
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Post by MelancholyofNyX »

As did I, twice in fact o.O
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Post by calibur1 »

I've received this annoying message twice now too.
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Post by Dreamstryder »

'Twas sent on Mon 1 Feb 2010 at 12:52 & 22:38 (GMT-11 hrs); the MiB in question joined the day before, so it flew under the radar.
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Post by Scurvy_Platypus »

Yup, I've gotten 3 PMs from the new PM spammer.
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Post by trechriron »

Yes. Please kill the spammer. And take it's stuff. Thank you. :D
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Post by Father of Dragons »

And he's logged it now!
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