Second one today

[MMacGillivray]

- spam pms into my SOWPUB mailbox - the first from dindin, the latest from incoins

Not appreciated.

M

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by MMacGillivray

- spam pms into my SOWPUB mailbox - the first from dindin, the latest from incoins

Not appreciated.

M

Thanks M. for letting us know, we'll delete their user accounts.

Gordon

It's a never ending battle!

I'm a mod for Willie Crawford's forum, and have to dump anywhere from 2-10 of these a day.

They're popping up all over, and I don't really know how you can stop 'em for good. Too bad we can't get our hands on the jerk that's teaching them that this is "the way" to make "big money".

Pete

I'm getting spam not only here in my private message area, but other forums as well.

Millard

Is RobT27 one of these or is it legit? Not quite like the others so...hmmmm.....

As for how to stop them, make it so that no one who hasn't posted a certain number of legit posts can use the private messages.

Sandi Bowman

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Sandi Bowman

Is RobT27 one of these or is it legit? Not quite like the others so...hmmmm.....

As for how to stop them, make it so that no one who hasn't posted a certain number of legit posts can use the private messages.

Hi,

I think I know how to fix this, it's a little bit of a workaround, but I think it will work. (Essentially, it's what Sandi suggested, though it's not so straightforward to implement and requires a bit of fiddling around...)

Anyway, I've temporarily disabled private messaging for now. I hope to have it back up and running in a few days, once I've got things hopefully fixed...

Cheers,

Dien

[MMacGillivray]

Thanks, Dien.

Cheers
Margaret

And I thought I was getting all these messages from new friends.
Oh, well.
Actually, I have been getting these for a while.
It's a minor annoyance.
Larry Foster

[Ankesh]

Hi Dien,

The good thing about vbulletin is you don't have to come up with your own hack.

Here is one mod that should stop the spam - and shouldn't take more than a few minutes to set up:

It prevents members from private messaging or adding links / emails to posts before they make x number of posts:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=123002

You could also do this to prevent private message spam:

Copy the default "Registered Users" usergroup into another group (say "Fully Registered").

Now set the "Maximum Recipients to Send PMs at a time" permission on the Registered Users group to zero to disable sending PMs.

Add a promotion to upgrade users from Registered to Fully Registered at X number of posts.

You may also want to rename "Registered" to "Newly Registered" or so.

Other mods you may want to look into:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118421
(to prevent posting spam.)

Every single board/forum that I frequent that has private messaging has this happen.

I think disabling the service is a bit of over-kill.

It may be a pain to Margaret and others, but all you have to do is hit the delete buttom!

That's like me not liking seeing sales flyers in my mail! I'm sure if I tell the Post Office they'll stop all advertising mailings at once. NOT.

Pete