oldlady Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 i know this is the wrong place but has anyone else found a message from someone wanting me to send money to africa in our messenger section? could not believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 The user has been banished. Just delete the messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Nobody wanted me to send money but I was offered 6 trunks of money and many diamonds from the wife of Late Mr Gomes Theophilos Lugman, One of The financial advisers to Late President Muammar Gaddafi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugaboo Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I got it too, just deleted it. Tried to find a report button but couldn't find one in the personal message area. Might not have looked in the right spot tough, glad it was noticed and they've been banned. Go going moderators. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrgpots Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Mine was to send money to the poor widow in Syria....deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 yep-deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 yes. deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Didn't get one. I could use a couple trunks full of money. TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I didn't even know about the personal messenger until I got 2 request for money. I think the same person hit me up in the parking lot at the grocery store the other day. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Folks........ we are trying to track down a bit more on how this happened. The ONE SPAM private message that we KNOW about started off saying: My Name is Greta Lugman from Philippines the wife of Late Mr Gomes Theophilos Lugman, One of The financial advisers to Late President Muammar Gaddafi, President of the oil riched country called Libya. If you received a DIFFERENT SPAM-type private message in these forums than the one that started out THAT way above, please post some sort of identifying first line in this thread.... and also PM one of the MODS with the username of the person who sent you the PM. Thanks. best, .......................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinks Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Even i received the spam message....DELETED.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Miller Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Admins, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all? It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers. Edit: OH! And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$). Noticed you guys don't do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Mods, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all? It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers. Edit: OH! And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$). Noticed you guys don't do that. Tyler, The mods do not get to set the controls; the admins get to do all the fun stuff. All we do is herd cats. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Miller Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Bruce, the appropriate corrections to my original post have been made. -Tyler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sherman Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Admins, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all? It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers. Edit: OH! And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$). Noticed you guys don't do that. Tyler, I actually just ratcheted that down a bit late last week---will go further if this persists. We also limit the number of individuals one can invite to a PM, so someone cannot blast out to more than a few people at a time. Looks like we also have search flood control in place as well. Is it not working for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Miller Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 It's not working. I can search once a second as it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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