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Spam PMs

Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 6:31 am
by Andi
I've started getting spam bots PM'ing me through this forum.
Phpbb is a bit of a target for this, I used to run a phpbb forum and suffered the same.

Admins, you might need to look at your registration challenges.

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 4:07 pm
by pete
Thank you Andi.

Yes it has been really bad lately with the spam. It comes and goes in waves.

A couple of years ago only solution that worked was not having any new members join the forum for a period of time.

Every day now we have 10 and up new spammers here.

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 5:05 pm
by hawsey
Yes Andi / Pete , it's a ban fest at the moment , hopefully it will calm down .

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Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 4:05 pm
by BuZz
I just removed a user now - apologies for the Spam. Spam is just very high at the moment in general, but I will look at additional anti spam measures and see if I can put some limits on PMs.

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:47 pm
by Andrew1971
I also had a spam mail today


Briansak
Posts: 0
Joined: Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:50 pm
Contact: Contact Briansak

Test, just a test

Sent: Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:50 pm
From: Briansak
Recipient: Andrew1971
Hello. And Bye.

Admin please delete if this message if it's inappropiate.

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:25 pm
by pete
Hello Andrew1971,

From here I am unable to delete spam emails...just users generating spam which I have done.

best
pete

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:09 pm
by Andrew1971
Cheer's Pete
Thank You. Your a star.
Andrew

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:08 pm
by pete
It has been Hawsey too and I doing this stuff. Sometimes it worse than other times but cleaning up occurs every day now. I do not understand why so much spam?

Re: Spam PMs

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:16 am
by BuZz
I need to update the forum and add some more countermeasures - Hopefully in the next week or two.