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Old 05-24-2008, 05:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
Corey
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Private Message spam

About a month back I was tipped off by a member here that a new member was spamming members here at YotaTech via Private Messages.

I actually watched this new member on the "Who's Online" list spending hours at a time going through the membership list to spam others.

Yesternight I received one of these spam PMs on another forum, and the text was the same as the spam members were getting here.

Apparently these spammers have the text all worked out and a system as to not raise eyebrows by trying to spam with the PM system instead of posting their spam publicly.

Here is the contents of the spam I received on another forum I mentioned above.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patricia
Hi,
I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

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Patricia
http://patricia.hub.io
Please, if you get spam like this here in your inbox, let the staff here know so we can ban these perps before they spam others here.

I reported this spammer to the staff at the forum where I received it.
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