Warning about spam PM's

[Zenith]

We've been having an increasing problem with spammers sending PM's. I'm in the process of implementing some measures which will hopefully prevent PM spam in the future.

In the meantime, if you receive a suspicious looking PM from a user unknown to you, do not click on any links within the PM. Most likely such links are just plain spam, but it's also possible the links could be far more malicious than that, so better safe than sorry.

You can report a PM via the button at the top right of the PM screen, in much the same way as a post can be reported. This sends an email to me which I'll act on as soon as I see it. However if the user who sent the PM has 'Guest' or 'Banned' under their name, that means they've already been dealt with so please don't report if that's the case.

Stay safe out there on da interwebz! :)

[Zenith]

I've finished installing a couple of anti-spam addons now, hopefully that will help cut down on spam a lot.

Unfortunately one of the side effects of PM spammers is that I've now had to restrict the use of PM's to users with more than 10 posts. Hopefully that won't cause too much inconvenience to genuine members, it's not too hard to clock up 10 posts. :) The same restriction has been added to the send email feature, just in case we start getting spammers that use that.