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Apologies to anyone whose had an private message from binkhal. They signed up like everyone else and proceeded to send Private Messages to members.
Please ignore the message as it's just spam.
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5 comments postedI have received a spam message, and realise until a user abuses the site in some way, they cannot be blocked, if you plan to expand the site to a wider audience, you may wish to recruit more moderators.
Hi Mark, the user signed up to the site over tea time, and by the time I sat down and put the kids to bed, the private message had been sent. The user was blocked and new measures put in place.
The new measures won't let a new user sign into the site until they have had their account approved by me or one of the other admin team. Anyone signing up to the site will need to fill their contact details and tell us a little bit about themselves at the time of registering.
We'll then have the decision to make the user live or block them.
One of the reasons I switch the guest comments off was to cut down in the number of spammer comments that were posted (they all went into the moderation queue, so there was never any harm done.)
I'll be reintroducing the points system again, so the more points you earn, the more things you are allowed to do (such as post private messages).
Again apologies.
P.S ark - are you opposed to a name change?
For anyone wondering, the site wasn't hacked, it was just a user using it in the way it was designed for (only they abused it rather than used it). No information was stolen, messages were sent (and now removed).
Of the messages, only 14 were sent, and some of those to the same person more than once, so they weren't even very competent.
Matt as well as long work hours I have been off line as we got a virus from facebook, you know those little links people send saying pass on to 10 friends for good luck etc. My advice is to delete them or block any one that sends them to you, even if they do have the best intentions.
I hate those pyramid junk messages. The whole aim is to collect user names or if it's email, yours and your friends email addresses.
It's been pretty bad on twitter this past few days with peoples accounts being hacked (only in the sense that they type their username and password into a fake page), and messages being sent out all over the place. Only when you go to read the message your asked to sign into your twitter account again. Only you've left twitter, it just looks like twitter.
Easily done, you've just given your username and password (probably the password you use for everything?) away.
Before entering your login information, check the url (web address). If your not sure go back to your starting point (i.e twitter.com) and sign in from there.
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