PM Spammers

Jrock said:

Whats that mean........?

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The forum software is called vBulletin, it's pretty popular and there are a lot of 3rd party mods out there for it - sort of like plug-ins, that give it additional functions beyond what it can do out of the box.

Hate to come back here again, but dt2023 is a spammer. All 9 of his posts as of right now are about how to purchase valium or something.

Thanks for letting us know. His posts have been deleted and he has been banned.

Thanks so much for the prompt response.

Hey mods,

For the last couple of months, I have been getting ads (banner add) on my yahoo mail for Seroquel and only Seroquel.

usually I get a whole variety of ads and none of them related to any antidepressants. Now it is always an ad for Seroquel.

I havent used my yahoo email on any other website. So just wondering.

Yahoo is an easy target for spammers. Spam bot randomly send out emails knowing most *@yahoo.com accounts are taken. I can't promise this, but I am doubting they get your email addy from SAS

You might want to send us an example. Since it is email, there isn't much we can do. If it is a PM, then we can take action.

TiMeZuP said:

Yahoo is an easy target for spammers. Spam bot randomly send out emails knowing most *@yahoo.com accounts are taken. I can't promise this, but I am doubting they get your email addy from SAS

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THIS. While it is possible for a spammer/hacker to break into a forum and take it over and steal the emails, the chances of it happening here are pretty slim. I've only ever seen something like that happen on forums where the majority of the users were into cracking software and other related activities, and then only when there is bad blood between someone and the moderation team.

I doubt anyone would want to pick on us. Also, as TiMeZuP stated, Yahoo, Hotmail, gmail are all pretty easy targets. Most spammers will send out millions of emails, using randomizers and generators, and then storing the ones they don't recieve a "This Email Doesn't Exist" message from. I even notice spam on my private server and I get them at work as well.