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Hey guys,
Just a heads up, I recently received several Spam email messages from users of this forum (Dave W, Josh, Joey and a few others) with some very shady looking links, im presuming its a virus or something so if you get one dont click it (common sense really). Has anyone else received something similar or was it just me? I reported it to MSN as the "Someone hacked my friends account" complaint so hopefully that should sort it out, will let you know if i get any more.
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Ah I did spot something when I got 86 postmaster delivery failure notifications... didn't realise it could have come through here... I've changed my password but I don't know if that will help matters...
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I have had a fair few of these myself from Youtube which keeps saying that I have messages which seem to have some dodgy links.
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@Josh: I dont think it came through the forum as such, i just recognised the names from the forum, i believe it may be sending to your MSN friends?
@Will: I think thats just general YouTube spam, people send messages to people hoping to get more views, more often that not the account gets deleted.

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I had a spam one from Josh the other day, I didn't know there was a cause here or not.
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make that two dave.
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Sorry anybody who received spam from me, not sure what happened, Windows have blocked my account which is a pain but hopefully it was just a one off. Have a suspicion it may have actually been a hack on my web server and it's been done through the mailto script... but I'm not sure how, it's just some of the numbers match...
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no harm done! :)
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Good to hear its all sorted Josh.
On a similar note I just received 2 more messages with similar looking links to the ones I received from Josh. They came from 1: somebody who I don't know directly (but I do recognize as a ex forum user) and 2: Jay W (who I believe is "Abundant Toast"?). It's not a huge problem but just a heads up.
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Jack, I'm fairly certain this is nothing to do with the forum, more likely it is individuals with viruses and/or hacked accounts. Chances are your email address is in their address book and the spam bot sends messages to everyone in the address book.
I have suffered similar in the past, apart from informing the person concerned there's not a lot you can do. I'm not sure of the benefit of posting every incident on here...
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