Alamy Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 We’re sorry if you’ve received a recent spam message to your PM folder. Over the weekend a spam user registered and managed to send out direct messages to many users of our forum, which is hosted via a company called Invision Power. You may have received this message directly via email if your forum settings were set to forward direct messages onto your email address. Please be assured that your email address would not have been visible to the user when they sent the message. Please do not reply to the message. We’ve deleted all sent and received direct personal messages (PMs) from this particular user and as a temporary measure we have also put a stop on any personal messages being sent across the whole forum. We have processes in place to prevent spam, and successfully block several new registrations and posts every day without our users being aware. It looks as though in this case a loophole has been found to get round our checks, so we are speaking with Invision Power on the best way to prevent this happening in the future so we can hopefully turn the PM feature back on soon. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Please do not start any extra threads about this and please do not copy and paste the contents of the message within threads - it only spreads the message further. Thanks, and apologies once again. Also, thanks to the many of you that reported this to us. James Allsworth Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Thanks, James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartybartfast Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 I got one of these and could see it was fishy, so I checked here first, thanks for posting explanation James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlcst Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirzamlk Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I got one .... thank you James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted May 17, 2016 Author Share Posted May 17, 2016 Update 17th May: A fix is now in place. After your next post, you will see the PM feature return. You will also see your status on the forum changed to "Verified". The PM feature will now only be available after you have had one post approved in the forum so for any regulars, you will see no change. We've also limited the number of new topics allowed via PM within a 24 hour period to 5. This means you will not be able to start more than 5 private conversations within 24 hours. This should all prevent the issue from happening again. Thanks, James A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlcst Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdh Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Very resonable limits, Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Five a year is about right for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dov makabaw Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Well done - thanks. dov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judyg0313 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I got one too. Thanks for keeping on top of this for us....People beware of RosineSmith23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Carlsson Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Doesn't say "Verified" on mine, but "Members"? Checked a few other forum regulars and it was same with them about 50/50 split. UPDATE: It does say "Verified" on my new posts, but not previous/old ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gennadii Rybalov Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Doesn't say "Verified" on mine, but "Members"? Checked a few other forum regulars and it was same with them about 50/50 split. UPDATE: It does say "Verified" on my new posts, but not previous/old ones. You'll only be verified once you've made a post. First posts for all new members are moderated before being published. Cheers James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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