SPAM POSTS - Importatnt! Please Read!

[DynoDave]

Well, it finally happened. Our first SPAM posting during my time here (since 2008).

I'm a member of a Turbo Trans Am forum that gets spam emails with links that go God knows where, and download God knows what to your computer. It's all automated, but is CLEARLY not something you want to be clicking on. They get a dozen a month or more on that other forum. Hopefully this is the first and last of it's kind here.

The post had 11 views by the time I saw it, deleted it, and deleted the members account. Hopefully no one clicked on the link.

Watch for brand new members (one, or only a couple of posts).

Don't click on ANY links that take you somewhere you don't WANT to go (don't click out of habit, boredom, or curiosity).

Hover over the link, and see where it's really taking you (appears in the lower left corner of your screen).

Click on the members profile. If they have a throw-away SPAM email address like this one, you know something bad is going on.



Let me know by PM that there's an issue. I read every single post here, but it's always possible for me to miss something.

[Nacho-RT74]

I unfortunatelly clicked on the link ( dunno why, and I don't use to make those mistakes ), and then checked the "member" account and noticed I made a mistake. It was too late in the night for me and tired...

dunno what I will be confronting now. I have AVAST but the free version

[71se3834v]

There's a first time for everything. Came home from work to find my front door kicked in. Life just gets worse and worse.

[DynoDave]

Damn, that sucks.

[DynoDave]

Well, we have occurrence #2. So it appears we are on "their" radar.

FYI...here's what the user, post, and email looked like before I had the pleasure of deleting them.





In this case, hovering your mouse/cursor above the link did NOT show a different destination, but that is FAR FROM a guarantee that this is safe.

[DynoDave]

Bagged another one. This one was less well crafted, but no less dangerous I'm sure.