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Old 01-17-2010, 10:38 AM   #11
PhiloHippus
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I have also been receiving these malicious PMs, from this and other forums. Last one I received here was from some "luckkyman" user who has apparently been banned already.

This is clearly an automated process, I just don't know if it means that legitimate users are unknowingly sending these messages due to their PCs being compromised or if it means that a bot is creating these accounts and sending the messages.
Either way however it's also clear that this won't just go away by itself so could the admins kindly make sure this doesn't happen? If it's a bot, you could make registration harder, perhaps with more elaborate capchas. If it's legitimate user's machines doing the nasty, implement some kind of filter where messages like these are prevented from circulating, it's fairer than banning less attentive users altogether.

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