Did anyone else receive a spam PM from a new member calling herself kuburatdaha? The one I received had greetings in the name of god and said something about $3.5 million.

I did.

Yes, I forwarded it to Mark, too.

Me too. Perhaps we should ask if there is anyone who didn't get it.

I got 3 of them!

Poor Mark will have a lot of PMs asking him to deal with this; I sent him one too.

I just checked. Yep I got it. The English was better than most and they didn't ask up front for anything which was novel. I didn't sent it to mark as I think he has enough now.

You mean it's not real? Bummer.

Yep, me too.

This place even attracts a better grade of Nigerian scams than others! Unfortunately punctuation/capitalization started to break down mid-way through.

I received 2 of them! I'm special lol.

Awww, I didn't get one. Gosh darn.

Me, too!

It was almost more excitement than I could stand. Sadly, I found my attention wandering markedly about the fourth sentence in that Eldritch abomination of a paragraph...



What did the end of it say?? I kept getting lost about the "embassy" part of things.

I received three.

I only got one.

Yup, I've had three so far. Persistent little bugger, isn't she?

I'm disappointed today, I didn't wake up to a spam email again!

I couldn't help noticing the the 3 of the newest members are bC6wU9hH3v, tM6uB9sD9d, tU0nK6oX7j. (Actually I see these kinds of "names" a lot in the "Newest Members" list.)

I got one too.

I started a new thread on this phenomenon.
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/168712.html#Post168712

Mark, are you reading this thread?

Hi Val - I have seen it, and noticed all the new user names that are spammers. When tracing the IP addresses I've noticed that these spammers are all posting from the same region/countries; I may be able to block that region from accessing the board if the trend continues. I can at least ban each user from posting when I notice the weird screen name.

Also, thank you to everyone who has notified me of spam recently! Much appreciated.

Best,
Mark

Thank you, Mark.

Yes, thank you very much, Mark.


IP filtering has done wonders on my board for reducing forum-spam. We don't just reject new registries, of course-- but they do require administrator approval if they come from some regions.