PM from LadyAdministrator contains a malware link

[animeaime]

Yet another PM with a link - they are getting smarter (I think).

Dear, animeaime!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http: // antivirus . effectmeds . com / animeaime
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Sincerely, Forum Administration forum . freecommander . com.

Edit:
Do they really think a forum admin could detect a virus on our computer? Plus, even if they could, they wouldn't email us about it, telling us to perform an online scan - they would tell us to do an offline scan (using our own, TRUSTED anti-virus program).

[jimoer]

marek free commander com to me
show details Jan 13 (1 day ago)



I've thinking you've been compromised, how can this happen from this site, meaning if i reply, to the message will it come to support or forum team or the lady?

concerned ~ jimoer`



Hello jimoer,

You have received a new private message to your account on "FreeCommander Forum" and you have requested that you be notified on this event. You can view your new message by clicking on the following link:



Remember that you can always choose not to be notified of new messages by changing the appropriate setting in your profile.

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Thanks, the Forum-Team

[Papakid]

animeaime,
You beat me to it--I just posted about this in the thread about the other spammer.

jimoer,
I'm not sure if you understand--the person who sent you the PM is pretending to be an admin at this forum but she is not--it's a scam. They want you to visit that page so they can scare you into buying some bogus antivirus/antimalware. Just do not click the link in the PM and otherwise ignore it.

Before this last round of PM spam I got a PM from the real forum admin. They are testing a new forum to prevent this sort of thing so just hang in there and use common sense. How would someone you have never heard of know that you have an infection on your computer? Trust your antivirus and security tools, not some one who comes in out of the blue and ignore any PM's you get like this one.

[BadDog]

I got the same thing just now. I guess this is why admin's turn off user PM's.

[phedlund]

This spammer is really ballsisy, LADY ADMINISTRATOR?
Any variant of that name should be banned from the board.

I have only gotten 2 emails from this forum -- both were spam

[Jerry]

In case the REAL forum administrator reads this thread, I can recommend (from personal experience) the forum spam tools here:

www (dot) stopforumspam (dot) com

It takes some persistence, but these doofuses can be blocked.

[Jancsika]

I have also gotten 2 spam PM. That is from marek
Is anybody doing anything about it???
This is probably the tip of the iceberg . Most people won't complain
J.B.

[Taf]

Also here same issue!
Today I received a couple of messages (on remote mailcheck the name of sender is Marek!).
One is coming from LadyAmministrator:

Dear, Taf!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: URLCUTTED
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Sincerely, Forum Administration forum. freecommander. com.

and one from yaniick719

Hello, my friend. I got message about viruses activity from your PC. Please, take steps to prevent this. Check your computer at URLCUTTED
Yours truly, forum member.

so take care of these infos!