I've been getting alot of messages from people telling me to click on links. Has anyone else been receiving those?

Yup just got one a few minutes ago..
Hello! ( From: CuurioussGirl )
Hello, my dear friend! You seems to be very attractive and clever. I want to meet you.
You can find me here:
I'm waiting for you! Bye!
CuurioussGirl is a member of the Members group and has 0 posts.
Sent on: Today, 10:03 AM
Last I remember I have never been Gay !!!!!!!!!! I love Men !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


P.S. don't click on that URL.. you may turn into a Guy !!!

Yes, I have been getting a "hi freind you may have virus activity" message with a link to solve all of my problems for acouple of days. I called my kid who grew up to be a programmer and he reminded me this is like the phone call that starts "We believe you may have problems with your credit card and need you to verify some information..." The thing to do is to independantly check it out by going on your own to your software security provider for a checkup.

Wow I haven't gotten the gay gal one...

i got one of this too...

Oh dear - I got one from "CurioussGirl" too.

"Romance in my life at last", I thought - but it was not to be, she's merely another robotic internet trollop, alas.




Dave

Oh come on now, Carol, it's ok to come out of the closet, we won't judge.

I got the same thing from the same spammer. It's flattering, but futile. And, as in real life, unsafe experimentation (clicking on strange links) will only lead to unwanted viruses... Everyone should delete messages like this immediately.

Mindy .. since she sent one to Dave too, I guess she's AC/DC ??... ha !!! Dave,, so sorry about your let down ..
I wasn't as thrilled some Chic thought it was my week for girls.... HA !!! This Texas Gal is in to Beef.....cake

yeah i got both the curious girl one and the one saying i have virus activities. i deleted them all I dont want no viruses

yah i got one from cusius girl does anyone know her i looked at he profile but there arnt any posts

It's a virus brokendream .. delete anything from that person ..

**** I only got the virus one, the gay gal one would at least have made me laugh.

Jacqui

I've been getting them too. The admins really need to put some defences in place for this. I reported this to an admin already and have had no reply.

I agree. I've been getting them a lot too and am beyond sick and tired or them. If this place continues to attract spammers and scammers posting links to virus infected sites in PMs or the forums, this place will start losing more of it's legit members.

Yep, I agree, it's a major problem.

I got a message yesterday that there was a virus and so I should click on the link that they provided. I just blocked the person and deleted the message.

You can also let us know the user's name so we can delete them.

yeah that is just what we want is to know if our members are still getting bugged with those emails so we can work on that as well .. admin is working hard on trying to better protect drawspace ...so if anyone gets a email please forward it to one Ernest or Myself so we can take care of it and properly report it to admin . thanks and I am so sorry this is going on .

OK, I don't know why I didn't think of that. I am trying to remember. I did check out his profile , no gallery, picture (of course) it said that he had been a member since the Feb. 13 2010.

I also got a message about a month ago from someone that said " hi Chris you are very pretty and i want to meet you" it was weird, It seemed like she had no clue about drawing and she included either an email address or website, I don't remember but in the address it said chrismh. I deleted that one as well because I thought that may be a virus as well. When I got them I deleted them right away thinking the quicker the better. I have gotten them before on my yahoo email and I am always afraid to forward them so it doesn't effect anyone else.

if I get another one I'll let you know.

I just checked my block list and his screen name was Kurtymann

I agree, this is becoming a real pain on DS. Could we not have some sort of screening method for new members i.e. when you first join you only have a limited account where you can not post links and maybe have no PM capabilities at first. I belong to another art forum which has a similar method to this and we do not seem to have the same problems as DS has

Newbies can't post links, so the old porn-laden topic spam is gone (remember those?) The admin folks have now modified things to throttle back PM sending, so the spammers are now strongly curtailed. I expect it to soon stop altogether, just like what happened with porn topic spam. The events discussed in this thread all happened before these changes were made to the forum.