Contacting fellow members directly or via email here?

**Meya** · August 5th, 2008, 04:37 PM

Thanks FG! Dont trip, we are only human. Besides, blame it on technology!

**Finance Globe** · September 5th, 2010, 12:07 PM

I just found out this morning that a spammer sent about 600 messages using our private messaging system/inbox. Some of you may not have received anything. Of course, your information or real email address was not compromised, as we keep your info safe at FG. This was a message that claimed the spammer wanted a business partner to inherit a fortune. Bla bla bla...

I am working on a fix so members can only send messages to friends. Sorry for the inconvenience if you did receive this! They are all deleted, as the spammer (and IP address from Australia) is now banned from the site.

**Joeyman** · September 5th, 2010, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by Finance Globe

I just found out this morning that a spammer sent about 600 messages using our private messaging system/inbox. Some of you may not have received anything. Of course, your information or real email address was not compromised, as we keep your info safe at FG. This was a message that claimed the spammer wanted a business partner to inherit a fortune. Bla bla bla...

I am working on a fix so members can only send messages to friends. Sorry for the inconvenience if you did receive this! They are all deleted, as the spammer (and IP address from Australia) is now banned from the site.

Oo, I don't think I received the spam. W00t w00t!! I wanted to suggest if you haven't already, ban his IP address from the forums. I'm not familiar with vbulletin but I know it's possible with phpBB. Also, with phpbb you can set a bots user permissions to read only (maybe the same in vbulletin). Again, you probably already did that. But just incase! :D

Nice quick action Mike!

**eugene66** · September 5th, 2010, 06:09 PM

I did not receive anything in my mailbox but I did get an email stating to check my mailbox.

**smcc** · September 6th, 2010, 08:42 AM

I received it ...............

**Finance Globe** · September 6th, 2010, 12:45 PM

Thanks Joeyman! Spam is the #1 enemy of webmasters, and you have to stay on top of it in order not to become a more serious target. Eugene, I banned the spammer so all of the messages sent were also removed by him.