Moho Forum

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 -

Печать плакатов, банеров. Ð￾едорого, качеÑ￾твенно. ШирокоформатнаÑ￾ печать

And the sender is someone called xlprint.

Can anyone help?

D.K

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.

I've had the same pm too.

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

D.K

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

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.