[2021-02-25] Private message spam, **NOT** hacked

Yep, if your forum is going to be run by a single administrator, it's beneficial to have someone that is capable (and friendly.)

My message was from Jasica11. I didn’t see where anybody else was contacted by her.
Maybe she was real? :smiley:

Anyone got a copy of the message so they can send it to me?

I feel so left out… :cry:

Don’t play the innocent, we all know it was you behind it. :stuck_out_tongue:

Wellp, I think whoever had the asscheeks avatar was behind it…

I remember a thread with a bunch of behinds in it.

That thread had to go away.

It was very naughty.

Got the e-mail notif from a PM by alisausa11 today at 3:46 AM (GMT –4 time zone). Can’t see the message itself, I’ve already deleted it.

I received mail from BLF notifying me PM.
I clicked link to PM and it was Diane98.
Thank you SB56637

I had a message from 2011 haha. Hi guys long time no see.

Hey there E1320! Welcome! I guess every cloud has a silver lining. :wink:

So I don`t have to send nudes to stay registered on the forum? :laughing:

Yes, they are required now. Send all pics to Lightbringer. :wink:

P.S.

Diane98 sent me one also, I know sites that would shock her lol.

Slowly..... she started taking items off ,....one by one .... First her headlamp ....

You just have to know how to handle these women . She kept talking about my package and wanted me to repeat my Visa card number .I told her she’d have to talk to my financial advisor at the First national bank of Nigeria .No ones getting any more money till the folks at the lottery send the check. I think they’re having problems finding an envelope big enough to send it. It’s a really big check .

She didn’t say what she needed money for but I think she’s too embarrassed to admit it’s to buy clothes . None of these poor women have any and I feel for them.

I tried to explain mode spacing , inverse square law and PWM ... I’m still waiting for another p.m.

Kinda nice to see more girls interested in the hobby .

Nah, you started the wrong way. Instead you should have given her a little token (e.g. a fancy keychain light?) to show your deep appreciation and admiration for revealing her ... uhm ... nice flesh... sorry flashlight parts to you. Something like this...

“Hey Beatrice, this must have slipped right off your neck.“

I received one of those private messages. I thought for a second, someone had the winning lotto numbers for me. I guess the joke is on me.

Update from the OP:

"A new system is now in place to prevent this sort of attack from occurring again."

and

"A workaround is now in place for this bug."

...

Excellent!

If the PM was sent to me, shouldn’t I have been the one to decide whether it was “spam” for me?

“Wholesale cleansing” sounds rather religious, does it not? I mean, one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor, right? One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right? Last time I checked, PM’s were just that…private, as in, non-public.

Just wondering, as this seems almost CPFish in deciding what’s best for “me.”

@Hoosh: This was a large scale spam attack from one source that used bots to masquerade as normal human users in order to create over 20 BLF user accounts and send thousands of PMs. If you consider a message sent by a computer inviting you to view porn as a valuable personal communication, then you really need to read up on the basics of how spam and other nefarious activities are creating such a plague on the internet. It’s a wild and sinister world out there online, and your position sounds dangerously naïve. Furthermore, spam and other criminal activities are prohibited by the BLF Rules that you accepted to join this forum, and my job is to enforce them.

Exactly. And better hope you own a direct upstream trunk to the internet, because every ISP or web host that I know of will block your SMTP ports and/or deny you service in the blink of an eye if they get so much as a hint that you’re participating in that sort of traffic. And that’s another very powerful reason that absolutely obliged me to react as I did and have always done; otherwise BLF would have ceased to exist many years ago and no decent hosting service would want to have anything to do with us if I permitted that sort of garbage to go unchecked. And no other self-respecting admin that is not a criminal would have done anything different.

Not sure I understand how settings allowed for a new user to jump in and message everyone.