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ADMIN please remove spam about gambling in the General forum areas. Two instances of it showed up late Sunday night.
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One thing I noticed was the names of new members. I think they collect your website address and then send spam to that. When this forum came back on line and I updated my account info I noticed I was getting spam mail all of a sudden. It was a bit coin scam. They threatened to post damaging pictures to my friends. Well I don't keep an email addresses on my computer of people I communicate with. I just ignored it and it went away. What also helped was eliminating my website address in the account info. I tracked one guy down to Russia and sent his ISP a note on what was going on. So be careful what you put in your account info on any forum.
BerndNew York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds
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Bernd, Curious on how new members are collecting your email address.. i have been looking through the screens as a " registered member " and cant seem to find that..Originally posted by Bernd View Post
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Ok, I think I screwed up. On the old forum you could list your website and e-mail address in the account information . I see you can't do that on this one. On the other forums I'm on you can list your website. I think the new members that are spammers mine the info. Also if you put it in your tag line. Once I removed my website from the forums information the spam stopped. I had also noticed that when I removed my e-mail address as a mouse over on my website and listed it with the words (at) and (dot) the robots didn't pick those up.Originally posted by rrladmin View Post
I went through some of the members on the forum and I see some signed on way before I did with zero posts. I suspect they were spammers. Also some of the names gave them away, at least in my book. Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid. Just my thinking.
I see we have a new way for the spell checker to work.
BerndLast edited by Bernd; 11-11-2021, 08:37 AM.New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds
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