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Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: carlos318is on February 10, 2010, 03:25:05 PM: From Dersterman

Hello, friend. There are viruses' activities from your computer in last few days. Strongly recommend you to scan your computer. You can find a report about your computer's security and solve every problem with it here: http://www.total-scan.net/detected/imreiek;pepe m42;Deftones;carlos318is;94318i
Thank you. Forum member.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Chalino on February 10, 2010, 03:34:10 PM: No me, but from the looks of it, it seems they have penetrated your computer's defenses and now have your name (Carlos) and personal info. Cancel your credit cards and put the 3 credit bureaus on alert.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: carlos318is on February 11, 2010, 01:49:31 PM: I now have a new pc so I dont know what they are on about
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: dexm318is on February 11, 2010, 02:14:17 PM: Yep i got two of them:rolleyes:, i deleted them right away:p
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Mike_L on February 11, 2010, 02:39:37 PM: Also watch PMs from XandderrMan............same scam. Delete his message.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Hey-u on February 12, 2010, 08:19:36 PM: I also recieved this message.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: carlos318is on February 13, 2010, 06:31:11 AM: Looks like a scammer

Just to let you know I didnt open the link
Title: 5 of these messages
Post by: rasmith9 on February 13, 2010, 08:16:12 AM: Since 1/26 to this morning. Also, I hadn't been active on this site for over a year, very odd. I am also running a very good virus scan program, so I assume spam. I did not respond nor open any of them.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Mr Spliffy on February 13, 2010, 08:21:52 AM: Same here, didnt open the link. I told him to delete me from the forum. Saw they only joined in Feb 2010. I hate those *****!!
Anyway guys keep well if I get deleted it was good while it lasted.. hehe
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: ck_carnut on February 14, 2010, 07:09:18 AM: Yeah, got the same message, and a couple of others that were obviously spam. I just deleted them.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Mr Spliffy on March 04, 2010, 03:59:29 PM: I swear if I should meet a spammer in real life I'd kill it right there, sorry guys but yoh it gets annoying
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: sheepdog on March 04, 2010, 07:34:58 PM: Some of these are sleeper accounts, I wiped out a bunch yesterday but didn't clean out all of the PM's they had sent. Really, I banned 10 sleeper accounts along with a few others already banned.

XandderrMan is one of them.

Spam on the forum should already have been cut way down and should continue to decline as we get rid of the sleepers.

Sleeper accounts...
When a spammer find a forum, they create not just one, but several accounts. often spread over days. They only use one at at time to spam though. So while you ban one, the rest are still safe. Even an IP block isn't perfect. XandderrMan was part of a cell of about 30 accounts all owned by one person. At least 10 had yet to be used.

The email systems these people have been using has been blocked, their iP's have been blocked, most free email providers are blocked. Coming back in droves will be hard.
Title: Has anyone else had this PM
Post by: Ryann on March 04, 2010, 08:15:26 PM: I haven't been spammed in days. Thanks sheepdog!