Private Message Spam

[krisw]

A few of you have contacted me saying that you've received private messages containing spam from fake users. I've investigated the problem, and believe that I have a fix in place to prevent anyone who is not a GWAPA member, non-member, board member, or vendor on our forum from posting to the forum or sending private messages.

That said, if anyone receives any PMs contain spam from users you do not recognise, please forward a copy to the gwapa@gwapa.org email address so that I can investigate further. It's a shame that a some people on the internet insist on trying to disrupt other people's forums and websites. Hopefully the problem is solved now -- sorry for an inconvience!

-Kris

[jweis]

A few of you have contacted me saying that you've received private messages containing spam from fake users. I've investigated the problem, and believe that I have a fix in place to prevent anyone who is not a GWAPA member, non-member, board member, or vendor on our forum from posting to the forum or sending private messages.

That said, if anyone receives any PMs contain spam from users you do not recognise, please forward a copy to the gwapa@gwapa.org email address so that I can investigate further. It's a shame that a some people on the internet insist on trying to disrupt other people's forums and websites. Hopefully the problem is solved now -- sorry for an inconvience!

-Kris

Thanks Kris. I had gotten a fake private msg too, but forgot to tell you about it.

[krisw]

Thanks Julie. Just to be clear, you received the spam before yesterday evening, right?

[jweis]

Thanks Julie. Just to be clear, you received the spam before yesterday evening, right?

yes, it was a couple of weeks ago.

[JLW]

Wait, wait, wait. . . . so that offer to send me a huge box of rare plants if I just cashed a cashier's cheque for some Prince was spam!? Darnit.