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"Harrison Ford" is spamming me:

You have just been sent a personal message by Harrison Ford on Joomla! Forum.

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email.

The message they sent you was:

If you have some time check out this COOL website:
(Mod Note: Edited out url.  - MMMedia)
Rest-assured this is great entertainment!!!
Also, check out the following website I came across:
(Mod Note: Edited out url.  - MMMedia)
It will knock your socks off!

Reply to this Personal Message here:

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up, looking into this.

P.S. images in your signature are not allowed, see forum rules. Could you please change that, thanks 

Yup same message here...

I just received the following email from joomla:

You have just been sent a personal message by Harrison Ford on Joomla! Forum.

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email.

The message they sent you was:

If you have some time check out this COOL website:

Rest-assured this is great entertainment!!!
Also, check out the following website I came across:

It will knock your socks off!

Reply to this Personal Message here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?actio ... te;u=44274

Please take care of this problem.  That bottom one, at least, is a porn site.  I nor other people should have to be sent stuff of this nature.

Capital Punishment for Porn Spammers.....any takers?

there's a "Report To Admin" link below every message in your Personal Messages.

Here's another user that got spammed:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... 84718.html

I just got a message from "Harrison Ford" to join some porn site. He had no amount of posts and was able to personal message me.

Is there any way that the forum moderators could prevent someone from pming someone else unless they had a certain amount of posts?

(I just woke up and the last thing I wanted to see was a personal message from someone at joomla. Here I thought it was joomla related... nope I just saw a picture of some guy's junk... its way too early in my day for that...)

pe7er wrote:

Here's another user that got spammed:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... 84718.html

In this case, we have been told of the user's name and banned that account.
It was user "Harrison Ford".

Unorthodox wrote:Yup same message here...

yeah same... here ... I didn't see this topic so i posted my own... http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,74489.0.html

i don't know about you people but that photo was def photoshopped

Something else instead of doing # posts to be able to pm... why not disable html urls in pms?

The moderators solved that problem ("Harrison Ford", that is): http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg384735

Thanks.....I origionaly got it in an E-Mail, so I didn't see the admin report link.

Done now though.

That spammer has been banned as soon as we got the report.

He could have sent quite a few pms in the meanwhile...

Merging with other thread of same topic.

Moving to Official Joomla! Websites - Feedback/Information.

I was the one that banned the user in question straight away, after getting multiple reports about the PM.

Unfortunately, we can't do too much against this except ban as fast as humanly possible. The spammers create an account by hand, and send PM/post spam by hand. On a positive note, most spammers are banned within minutes. All global moderators have the ability to ban spammers. Thanks for the reports.

Have also merged the three identical threads into this one thread.

When I get a chance, it looks like I might have to disallow the ability of sending PM's/Emails to users unless user has a certain number of posts... sad reality, but due to our popularity Joomla! is a target for spammers etc etc. I can also assure you that the moderation team works very hard to clamp down on spammers and keep the forums clean.

I also received a Spam PM, thanks for taking care!

terram wrote:Here I thought it was joomla related... nope I just saw a picture of some guy's junk... its way too early in my day for that...)

Same thing I thought.  I'd posted a question earlier and I thought "hey, maybe someone has a solution".  Or maybe they saw my site and thougt it was cool or something.
Nope.  Just a huge wang on the screen.

Requiring users to have a certain number of posts before they can PM might help, as long as it doesn't count posts that are deleted.

Anyways, thanks for trying your best to help the situation.

I got it too... That was disgusting.

Thanks for dealing with it so promptly. Thought I was broad-minded - turns out I wasn't!

Brad.

That is a great idea.  There are not many times you to to pm somebody and if you do chances are that you have know the person on the forum for a while.  Setting a minimum post would stop people from pm spamming. 

Cheers
Dave

jo37 wrote:Thought I was broad-minded - turns out I wasn't!

Ok, users who have less than 5 posts cannot send PM's or 'email to a friend'. Hopefully this will prevent situations like this happening again.

Sorry for the trouble that this user caused.

Thank you for handling this so promptly!

Thanks for handling this issue, I see this one is a mass spamer, I recived spam PM's on other Joomla+SMF site under exact same username ...

and the worst part was that horrible picks porn.

I would like to mention that I have two SMF forums set up and Harrison Ford spammed both of them with this same type of message.   Nice way to kill the vibe of a volunteer community with di@kheads like this with too much time on their hands.

Are there any ways to prevent this from being so easy to accomplish withouth crippling the openness of a forum setup?  I know character recognition during signup might help against bots, etc.  I guess I'll have to clamp down on permissions in the mean time... hate penalizing the group for a rogue spammers actions.

EDIT: I know this SMF isn't Joomla related; but wanted to mention it for the benefit of others.  I will be implementing Joomla front ends for both of my forums, fyi!  :-)