Spam PMs from user account "Karkitos205"

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xantia_v6
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Spam PMs from user account "Karkitos205"

Unread post by xantia_v6 »

It appears that the account password has been hacked and a spammer has used the account to sent PMs to several of our users.

We have now disabled that account, and I have deleted the spam PMs, but cannot delete any notification emails that were sent.

We apologise for any inconvenience, but we have little control of this type of episode.

Please just delete any notifications for spam PMs, don't mark them as spam, as it hurts our site reputation.
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Re: Spam PMs from user account "Karkitos205"

Unread post by GiveMeABreak »

This is likely another person that uses the same password and email on multiple sites and this is what can happen if one of those other sites is hacked or compromised. Please always use at the very least a separate password for each site if not a separate email, to greatly reduce this thing from happening.
Please note, I'm no longer active on the Forum, so won't respond to messages.

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Re: Spam PMs from user account "Karkitos205"

Unread post by xantia_v6 »

They also got into the account of mrkijo.