Buddhist PM's SPAM warning !

[wii]

What´s the best way to report this to his/her internet provider ?

[optrex]

whois the ip address and send email to abuse@isp

[wii]

Done, I reported this.

Hope it helps.

[gothic]

Another username to watch out for is Jeanette. Same spam as this one, different name. I had to create a new registered user group that doesn't have PM privs to stop it.

Also goes by the name 'Patricia' had this one on two of my forums

[Chazel]

What exactly are they trying to do?

Get people to become Buddhist?

Also, can you share the link here? I'm obviously not a staff member, but I can't see the harm in sharing a link for informational purposes as long as the site doesn't contain nudity, runs an illegal version of vB, etc.

[wii]

I don´t have the text or link anymore, maybe someone else can post it here.

[R1lover]

Stephanie has made the rounds on a few of my sites as well.. it seems she is a very busy lady... lol

[AWS]

One identifiable characteristic is the age they use to sign up. The age is usually in the 60's.

[Floris]

I have a user by this name on my sites, she is a wonderful person and not a spammer.

So just because it's a common name.. make sure you don't ban a real person!

[gothic]

I have a user by this name on my sites, she is a wonderful person and not a spammer.

So just because it's a common name.. make sure you don't ban a real person!

Erm, the behaviour of the miscreant is rather obvious and doesn't leave any doubt as to the validity of any ban.

[Vtec44]

"She" was on my forum, but it requires her to select a gender and she picked "male". That obviously raised a red flag since I manually validate all users.

[Floris]

Erm, the behaviour of the miscreant is rather obvious and doesn't leave any doubt as to the validity of any ban.

it was a general notice .. so people would double check before just banning or deleting users.

"She" was on my forum, but it requires her to select a gender and she picked "male". That obviously raised a red flag since I manually validate all users.

Good catch

[Onimua]

Now I just got this user on my site, but under the username James (207.195.249.48 / [email protected]).

I've promptly banned him.

[wii]

Yeah, that´s why I did some changes, so that new registrations can not send PMs.

[T.S.]

I had the same problem with "Jeannette" a couple days ago.

The One-touch Spam Ban and Cleanup plugin got rid of the users and all of the PMs quickly though.

james420 @ 123mail.org was the registration email and 207.195.253.218 was the IP.