PM Spam

[The Computer Audiophile]

Not hacked. 
 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Not hacked. I removed all the spam messages before most of the hundred thousand people could view them. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, Shaky said:

I Received the same message.   I think you've been hacked.

For the 100th time. Sending a message to other members can be done by anyone with an account. We were not hacked. A group of scammers created 500+ accounts to send messages to people. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

10 minutes ago, Shaky said:

So if this behaviour is ok with you guys that's your prerogative.  I will simply delete my account.   For a site that used to be called computer audiophile your very accepting of scammers.  See you.  

Not sure what you’re talking about.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Shaky said:

Your users are sending emails to other users from your website with suspicious links embedded in the messages.  Your response should be one of action and concern not defensive and apathetic.  Just my opinion.

If you actually read the post marked as the answer to this thread, you’d see that I was up at the crack of dawn dealing with the issue, banning the users, and removing the posts. Please read what actually happened. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, ASRMichael said:

@The Computer Audiophile why don’t you change the title from Hacked to Spammed. Doesn’t look good for you business. Clearly the original poster used wrong words. Just a suggestion. 

Agree. Done. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said:

Chris, I am sure I can speak for a majority of the people on this site when I say thank you for sacrificing a part of your Saturday taking care of the spam mess to the point that when I logged on at ~Noon I saw no signs of it other than a few comments. Other posters aside... I am sure we appreciate it. I know I do.

Thank you very much. Seriously. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, yamamoto2002 said:

@The Computer Audiophile Do you considering about recurrence prevention? For example, on new account creation, person should pass `entrance exam' of several audio related questions or something 😀

I tried that in the past and it failed to even slow down these guys. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

9 minutes ago, sandyk said:

Chris

 If they are smart enough to do what they did, they will always find a way to beat the system.

All that you can do is what you have already done.

 

Regards

Alex

Agree. It gets really crazy when trying to prevent a rogue nation state from doing whatever it wants. Anyway, I just made a major change to how users are created in the system and what rights they have as users without any posts versus users with at least one post. Also, as usual, users' first post has to be approved by me.

 

Fingers crossed I don't wake up Sunday am to another several thousand emails :~)