SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 12, 2010 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 12, 2010 If you just got some spam mail from someone trying to use the Forums to send out mass spammings --- sorry. Luckily we have very quickly deleted that account and hopefully the person doing this was not able to send many. There has been no breach of information on our server or anything like that. Simply someone/something trying to use a new account here to send out stuff. Annoying, frustrating, such an utter waste of time.... all those things and more. I dread to think how much of a problem this kind of thing would be if anyone could simply sign up and get stuck in! The thought alone is scary. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Na, "safe" here. but in need of some viagra though. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 12, 2010 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 12, 2010 Actually, from some of the bounced mails that have come back, looks like the emails it was sent out to were totally not related to this site or it's members. So there are likely a few people out there blaming us for the junk right now. Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 How did they do it anyway? Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 12, 2010 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 12, 2010 I think I'd rather not say - not give other spammers ideas - though it wasn't any kind of hacking or such dramatic thing (happily). I think we need to put a few limits on something though to prevent this kind of thing from being done again. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 damn! foiled again.!!! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 May sound obvious, but how about setting a minimum time limit between sending private messages? Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 12, 2010 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 12, 2010 New members or people who have not taken part in the Forums, do not get access to PMs. And this, my friends, is one of the reasons why! Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Bummer as someone sent me this pic and I was hoping it was you guys.... Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 ooohhh... Pete. A Christmas Present. Thursday - LMAO! SJ-David - no breaches here either. Spammers Suck! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 I missed out too! Guess we're just lucky that the "good guys" at SJ are on top of things. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 not me either, though i'm certainly beginning to feel inadequate... Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: panhead_pete Bummer as someone sent me this pic and I was hoping it was you guys.... victoria silvstedt. hubba-hubba. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 She looks a bit scary. Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I agree.... hence why I thought it was spam Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 13, 2010 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 13, 2010 A bit of investigation into this - seems that none of the email addresses used were members of our site. And by the number that got bounced back, they were probably just random. Amazing even when we deleted that guys account, he came in and tried to re-register. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 What an optimist! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 What did the person try to send? Come one, post the message here. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Free ski lift tickets to all. And donuts. Link to post Share on other sites
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