I've received a spam message here

[albo]

FYI I received a notification of a posting of a private message from userid "profilicus" containing linkable text "Important to read" which, upon clicking, leads to a Viagra ad. "profilicus" is shown to have joined on April 29. I don't know whether this is common.

[ddyment]

I received one of these as well.

[DianeD]

I just received one also.

[Karlis]

Spammer deleted + IP address banned.

Nowadays they will go ridiculous lengths just to do their evil thing.

[websquad]

I got one also. Left it in my private message box so you can snag the IP address and blacklist it.

Thanks !!

[Mr_Fawlty]

I just got one from gensurik which links to a weird spam bot site where you put a code into a form but never goes anywhere:

Read new rules

[websquad]

I see that phpBB has a number of anti-spam features ....

http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

Have you given thought to implementing any of those? Some are added by version 3, which, if I read the source code for this particular page correctly, you appear to be using.

[Karlis]

They strike again. I'll try to figure out how to bounce them off. We are already using e-mail verification and captcha, obviously it is not enough.

[Mr_Fawlty]

As if you had nothing else to do!!! Well done dude.

[Karlis]

So I upgraded the forum software (it now uses better CAPTCHA) and turned off option that allows to send mass pms. So from now on only single-receiver pms are allowed.

This will not make spammers die, but it should punch them in the face at least.

[MikeyB]

Karlis,

CAPTCHA doesn't seem to stop spammers at all these days, seems to be a waste of time now.
I'll send you a PM on what I did on my PHPBB that completely stopped the spammers in one go.

Mike