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Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 05:53
by r.schreurs
Hello all,

Since yesterday, SPAM is being send to one of my e-mail addresses. I used this address exclusively for this forum. Apparently, the address list of this forum has been stolen and is now being misused...

Regards,

R. Schreurs

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 08:38
by splitbrain
Your email address is visible in the RSS feed of this forum. It's bubba2.user@ some dutch provider. So not much of a hack but more the stupidity of the forum software :roll: .

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 08:51
by Ubi
indeed. Maybe related to the "Users can contact me by e-mail:" setting

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 12:55
by RandomUsername
Am I being blind? I can't even see the RSS link. :S

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 13:06
by Ubi
it's the orange icons on the homepage

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 13:36
by RandomUsername
Ubi wrote:it's the orange icons on the homepage
Found them, thanks. I was looking on this page.

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 15:50
by r.schreurs
Well, visibility in the RSS feed clarifies how the address was found. Still I think the forum owner, Excito, should not publish email addresses. This discussion on the phpBB community site could help preventing this in the future.

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 25 Nov 2010, 08:30
by tor
Hi all,

I have read that thread mentioned above and manually changed the rss.php. Please let me know if this solution is working out.

/Tor

Re: Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

Posted: 02 Dec 2010, 09:47
by r.schreurs
The issue has been solved. I now see <author>forum@excito.com (r.schreurs)</author>, so not my personal email address. Thanks :)