Who's this PM from?

DK · Post by DK » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:35 am

Someone sent me a pm and i have no idea what language it is in or if it's important. Can someone help? Has this happened to anyone else?

The message subject reads -

ÐŸÐµÑ‡Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð¿Ð»Ð°ÐºÐ°Ñ‚Ð¾Ð², Ð±Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ð². ÐÐµÐ´Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ð¾, ÐºÐ°Ñ‡ÐµÑÑ‚Ð²ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾. Ð¨Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ñ„Ð¾Ñ€Ð¼Ð°Ñ‚Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¿ÐµÑ‡Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ

And the sender is someone called xlprint.

Can anyone help?

D.K

myles · Post by **myles** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:03 am

Hi D.K,

that's often the result of badly formatted Cyrillic (although it can be other character sets) on a machine not set up with the same default character encoding, and is possibly automated spam, although it's the first time I've seen a confirmed PM spam (usually it's not worth it because it hits only one user at a time instead of a post seen by all forum members).

I hope it's not the start of a trend.

Regards, Myles.

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:28 am

I've had the same pm too.

DK · Post by DK » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:40 am

Thanks for that Myles. Knunk too! looks like that confirms it as Spam then.

D.K

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:57 am

Can't one of the forum moderators get administrative privileges, so he can delete the accounts of notorious "users".

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:28 pm

Would be good if we could, in order to clean out the member list - but probably won't help as regards 'notorious users.' Most of these user accounts are created on the fly and only used for a single post. Would probably only help for 'stealth spammers' like those always posting a certain brand of video software. I'm guessing IP can be spoofed otherwise banning by IP might be useful.