Forum Help and questionable user.

[Burnsie]

Hi, First post and don't want to speak badly about someone, but they are new members as of 17/02/10 last on 17/02/14 and seem to be still on. I don't understand Russian and since I'm new and they're new, I question the validity of this personal message, attachment and user. Don't see a way of having admin review it all.

Anyone? Thoughts on validity?

Thanks Burnsie

Subject of PM
PowerBank на солнечных батареях

Here's PM - Warning! Don't necessarily clink links.

PowerBank на солнечных батареях

Sent: Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:56 pm
From: DavidBap
To: Burnsie
Лучший PowerBank на солнечных батареях

POWER BANK 20000 mAh
НА СОЛНЕЧНЫХ БАТАРЕЯХ
Заряжается от солнца и сети 220V
До 10 полных зарядок гаджетов
Реализуем по ОПТОВЫМ ЦЕНАМ
Универсальное зарядное устройство
Может заряжать сразу 2 гаджета
Емкость батареи 20 000 mah
Посмотреть поробнее - https://goo.gl/j4OgD2

[moderator]

Although we do our best to keep them out, several spammers got by us recently and are now posting PMs to members. They have since been banned from the forums.

If you received a spam PM from anyone recently, please delete it.

With our apologies..

[Burnsie]

Thank you. Ran this same platform myself - PHPBulletin - almost 20 years ago. Know the problem.

MichelKid same thing also got in on 2/14.

Белоснежная улыбказ за 7 дней
Инновационная система отбеливания зубов в домашних условиях.
Результат уже через 3 дня
Это абсолютно безопасно и не влияет
на чувствительность эмали зубов!
Отбеливать зубы можно в любом месте,в любое время.
Простой и доступный всем процесс отбеливания!
Всё что нужно - это выделить себе несколько минут свободного времени.

By the way, the Russian translates to a teeth whitening powder.

Probably could search the forum for those kinds of characters - Cyrillic - and clean house pretty well.

B

[karjoo]

I am have the same issue. I copied and pasted the txt in google translate and it is an ad for portable battery packs. I with there was a way to report these users and/or block. If anyone knows how to do this please let us know and ban these phishing messages

[space_nerd]

Yes I had two similar Russian messages - please check the security of the forum - thanks.

[thealien666]

The moderators here are doing a pretty good job still, because some other forums elsewhere are inundated with such spam.

Thumbs-up to them.