FYI; "Harrison Ford" sending spam to BYOAC members..

[bw]

Received the following:
<BEGIN SPAM>
You have just been sent a personal message by Harrison Ford on Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum.

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!

YOUR INTENDED RECIPIENT WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR REPLY VIA EMAIL!

The message they sent you was:

If you have some time check out this COOL website:
http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=AYSEA8N&key=KYV
Rest-assured this is great entertainment!!!
Also, check out the following website I came across:
http://www.asian-man.com/asianmannew/main.htm
It will knock your socks off!
Finally, the below website is the absolute BOMB!!!
http://www.aznlover.com
ENJOY!!!
<END SPAM>

Can we have this person booted?

[zudmsc]

I got it too.  What gives??

Zud

[albybum]

I got this crap too. It's not remotely safe for work either 

[Razor]

I got it too ...

[SirPeale]

User has been banned.  Thanks for letting us know.

[AtomSmasher]

Damn it, you banned him too late and I was forced to see the gay asian porn he embedded into the PM.

DAMN YOU HARRISON FORD!!!

[DrewKaree]

Damn it, you banned him too late and I was forced to see the gay asian porn he embedded into the PM.

DAMN YOU HARRISON FORD!!!

Nobody told you that you had to double check it to make sure they were asian

[GoPodular.com]

LOL.

I just got that PM too.  Isn't there a way to set it to 5 posts or something before you can send a PM?  Might save some trouble.

Peale, you can "discuss" the spam with the hosting company of the sites listed, tell them the person sent that pic to underage members of your site with a link to their site.  Usually the hosting company will terminate the services.

The asian-man domain looks like it's hosted by http://www.centralhost.com/  I did a simple trace route on it.

The aznlover domain looks like a french server: http://www.c-dedie.com/

It takes a little work, but it's worth it when people get their accounts pulled.

[Spaz Monkey]

    At least you saw his face first.  I scrolled directly to the bottom of my message to see his junk.

[Chickadee]

   At least you saw his face first.  I scrolled directly to the bottom of my message to see his junk.

me too i hit page down and started seeing hte pic from the bottom up.

[Dizzle]

Not cool... my little girl couldv'e been around when I pulled up my messages.  Luckily, she wasn't.. but it still pisses me off   

[DrewKaree]

Update, and I'm guessing it's either someone who ACTUALLY has been reading the boards to know what he's doing (meaning the "Check their ISP and report them" could potentially be a great weapon), or it's a complete and total ---tallywhacker--- who thought it'd be funny to forward this to me.

"Member" named X-fact0r (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=profile;u=9103 FORWARDED the spam.  I believe it's prolly the same pic, since I caught this in my e-mail notification, which DOESN'T automatically display pics.

Now, I haven't investigated it to see if the three posts are actually RELEVANT to their threads, or if he simply posted some "arcade looking" off-topic replies to make it look like he's an actual member, but for someone with 3 posts here to FORWARD this to me as if I needed to see this, I feel no need to mince words.

X-fact0r, you're either the dumbest ---tallywhacker--- that walked the face of this earth, or an idiot beyond compare (and considering subzero and blueoakleyz seemed to want to make it a contest, that's saying something). 

Should a mod need verification, I have no problems quoting his pm to me and CC'ing it to you.  I'd like something to be done to this asshat.  I've got no problems with jokes, but there's absolutely no reason to believe this is some sort of joke, and based on the text, there simply CAN'T be someone walking the face of the earth who's this stupid.

X-fact0r, take this as my notice - I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, and if you happen to become a contributor, I won't soon forget you sending me the crap you did.  The only help I'll ever offer you is to give you instructions on how to lop your pecker off on a table saw with a dull blade.

[Dizzle]

X-fact0r, take this as my notice - I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire,

    


Where do you get these gems Drew?!?!

[cw]

on a side note... bw is my big brother  dont let him tell you diff... i have all the grey hair but he is still the old man....  and if ya need help with pins he is a big help...       



  but i still need some help on this hyperball bw... so lets get with it...

[Tiger-Heli]

"Member" named X-fact0r (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=profile;u=9103 FORWARDED the spam.  I believe it's prolly the same pic, since I caught this in my e-mail notification, which DOESN'T automatically display pics.

That doesn't alway mean X-fact0r was involved.  Lots of malware spoofs the sender field.

I fairly often get E-mails saying that my message titled "Is this you?" could not be delivered to someone I never sent it to.

Pretty clever trick by the virus writers - Virus goes from User A's machine and is sent to User B (Drew), but says it came from User C (X-fact0r).  User B thinks they got a virus from User C - sends him nasty mail about cleaning up his machine and not E-mailing him stuff, and User C is like WTF?

[DrewKaree]

Unless they are spoofing the PM on this board, this isn't the case.  What I'm saying is that I generally check my e-mail more often than my PM's here, which is how I found out about this particular PM.  I got the e-mail notification about X-fact0r sending me a PM.  Unless BYOAC was compromised somehow, I can't see this as someone spoofing a PM from member to member here.