@Delegator wrote:
I just received similar spam as well. While I get the idea of reporting inappropriate messages, just the fact that a message gets opened is helping the spammer. So, I've just disabled private messages completely. I'm sorry, but it isn't my job to thwart spammers; anti-spam should be built into any messaging system at this point.
No, viewing a private message within this forum does nothing for the spammer. You'd have to click the link for them to have any benefit. This isn't something like a regular mail program that something malicious can run simply by viewing the message. And in reality most email clients have protections against that happening any longer.
When one forum user sends a PM to another user, that's nothing an anti-spam program could catch. These are people paid to create user accounts on forums and then sending spamming messages to other users. These messages aren't coming from outside the forum, so there's no software that could catch it. About the only thing that could be done is blocking someone from adding a URL to a message. I'd hate for it to come to that, because it's extremely useful for legitimate purposes.
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