Spam Private Messages

**momtohanna** · 08-17-2009, 07:48 AM

Not sure how to handle this, was trying to find an admin to send it to directly, but maybe you can help me.

I am receiving spam private messages from a user.

Every 5 minutes this person is sending me a message about another forum. Is there a way I can ban this user from sending me messages or get their message privileges revoked or something?

This is the person sending me the messages: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/member.php?u=9036

Thanks.

**alpinerabbit** · 08-17-2009, 07:51 AM

I've reported him via one of his posts.

**momtohanna** · 08-17-2009, 07:52 AM

ok. thanks.

**Biciclista** · 08-17-2009, 07:54 AM

I reported him too. What's odd is he sent me something a month ago which i ignored but then again last night.

**salsabike** · 08-17-2009, 07:55 AM

For the future, momtohanna, the way to report spam directly to the forum admin is to click the little red triangle in the bottom left.

**Biciclista** · 08-17-2009, 08:00 AM

there wasn't a place to click on a private message, i just forwarded mine to Administrator.

**Ninabike** · 08-17-2009, 08:28 AM

I got it too, but just ignored it.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 08-17-2009, 08:28 AM

Yep, I've been getting the same private messages from him as well, asking me to join his forum and 'Tweet' about it to promote it for him. Pffft.

He's just mass pm'ing us all multiple times- enough already.

**KSH** · 08-18-2009, 01:23 PM

I got a PM from him too about the same thing.

**wannaduacentury** · 08-19-2009, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by momtohanna

Not sure how to handle this, was trying to find an admin to send it to directly, but maybe you can help me.

I am receiving spam private messages from a user.

Every 5 minutes this person is sending me a message about another forum. Is there a way I can ban this user from sending me messages or get their message privileges revoked or something?

This is the person sending me the messages: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/member.php?u=9036

Thanks.

I received one as well last week, but only one. Not sure about it. Jenn

**rachgreen** · 08-20-2009, 12:30 PM

dont worry-- theyre good at catching them if this is happening to any of you out there. just post something about it and theyll see it.

**jobob** · 08-20-2009, 01:32 PM

Who do you mean by "they" ?

**ASammy1** · 08-20-2009, 01:37 PM

I've received more than one from that guy, but just deleted him. It's annoying, but he was polite. Thanks for banning him, admins!

**Geonz** · 08-21-2009, 08:39 AM

Me too... yea, the content was "fine" -- but then, *why* the PM route? Why spam? Something didn't smell right about it. Maybe it was a hacker experimenting with a mass PM program and planning nefarious things later...

**DarcyInOregon** · 08-21-2009, 10:25 AM

Hmmm, guess I was the only one who went over to the other site. I like it because it has a diversity of people, the ability to have more photos, one can blog, and the site is well monitored by the administrators. I don't have much time to spend in these type of discussion forums because my days are pretty busy. After enough years the content becomes repetitive on all of the cycling forums, blah blah blah saddles ... butt pain ... bonking ... what to eat ... crashed ... clipless pedals ... blah blah blah, however I do think the other site is just as nice as Team Estrogen.

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