Spam Private Messages

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

How do I report spam private messages??

I have just got two offensive pornographic ones from a 'Daniel Craig'.

Can someone stop these and warn this character??

And can one of the moderators/administrators delete them; be careful I think they contain a spy bot, or virus of some ort!!

[T.K.A.-Denmark]

You should be able to delete them yourself. I got he same messages and just deleted them fom my messagebox. I will try to find his profile and delete it, but it's not so easy with the new layout.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Well, when I took a look at this message, it turned my firewall off, and blocked my anti-virus program.

So I am reluctant to try to delete it again, after it took ages to repair the damage.

How does one contact the moderators at this site?

Are there any????

[T.K.A.-Denmark]

Am a moderator but rather poor at it, mostly I just remove the spam posts. Lack of teqnical abilities you see :-\
Problem is I can't find him on the membershiplist so I dunno how to ban him.
When I deleted the messages I never read em, just choose them in the message menu for deletion.

[roodzwijntje]

Sorry guys, we are aware of the problem. It seems the spam robots have found this forum  :-[
I removed the spammer and in an attempt to prevent this from happening again I changed the registration settings; New members need to activate their account now so it should be much harder now for a robot to automatically subscribe to the forum and start spamming either in public on the forum or in private messages.

Sooo apologies comrades, let's hope it's solved now.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Thanks, rood!

But, how do I delete these messages without viewing them?

Last time I did this it took out my firewall and nuked my anti-virus program.

[Volkov]

Crap, I have two of these "Daniel Craig" messages as well.  I am not sure what to do; you can merely view the messages by scrolling down the list you have.  I do not dare to delete them with this problem.  I thought of just checking the box next to the message without clicking the link, but I am too worried about my firewall, anti-spyware, and anti-virus getting messed up.

I have seen and reported some cretin spammers, but I never thought that they would end up doing this crap!

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

V, what we need here is an admin type character, like we have over at Revleft, cleaning these out, if they can....

Or some technically competent comrade to do it.

[Volkov]

I am not sure how this works completely, but it does seem to be working for revleft.  Spammers don't seem to last too long over there.

I am not sure if there is anyone around here that would be able to do such things; this board is largely composed of active IMT members, hence the inactivity of this board compared to revleft and other such places.

I wonder if there is anyone around that would know what can be done about this. All I know is that options are currently being explored.

[roodzwijntje]

Apologies comrades, it seems yesterday this idiot managed to send spam through the board again, both in public and in private messages to everybody. I deleted his account and removed all messages. Last time this happened I changed the registration settings so that new members have to activate their account but now even this doesn't seem to be bullet-proof for the spam robots. Sigh.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Thanks for doing that Rood.