Spam Mail to Private Account

kaiser31

Hi I just want to notify you that I have received a strange email from boards.ie. I'll copy & paste the text for you to see:-



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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL

Reply to or delete this message by clicking here.

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From: snip banned user
Subject: HELLO

Hello my dear my name is Tiram,
How are you doing i hope all is well with you i am contacting you for you to reply me back with this my email address as follows (snip) reply so that i will send you my picture and tell you more details about me . thank you for your understanding and i wait for your reply to my email.

Snip,
© Boards.ie Ltd. 2016

Taltos

This user has been banned from boards.
Can you confirm that you received this over your private email and not over boards Private Console?

kaiser31

Taltos wrote: »

This user has been banned from boards.
Can you confirm that you received this over your private email and not over boards Private Console?

i got this into my own email

Taltos

Thanks Kaiser.
I'll flag it to HQ.

Taltos

One of the other admins helped me out here.
What you got was an email alert of a new PM, enabled in your CP.

However when this spam artist came to our attention a few hours ago after multiple reported PMs, as well as banning their account we deleted all PMs they sent, so when you checked your inbox here you wouldn't see the corresponding PM to the email. The @ Boards bit was the giveaway.

Thanks again, hope this clarifies things.

kaiser31

Taltos wrote: »

One of the other admins helped me out here.
What you got was an email alert of a new PM, enabled in your CP.

However when this spam artist came to our attention a few hours ago after multiple reported PMs, as well as banning their account we deleted all PMs they sent, so when you checked your inbox here you wouldn't see the corresponding PM to the email. The @ Boards bit was the giveaway.

Thanks again, hope this clarifies things.

Thanks for dealing with it so quickly ðŸ‘