Spam messages- "XEVIL 6: the best program for ReCaptcha"

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Spam messages- "XEVIL 6: the best program for ReCaptcha"

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Hi,

Is anyone getting spammed with messages about this?
The last one came from a user called 'Marythisk'. This person only joined Monday 17th August 2026 so I can only assume this isn't any approved message from any forum admin. How do I report / block this person? I cannot see any option on their profile to do any such thing. Apparently I can add them as a foe, but I'm not sure what this will block them.

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Yes. I did a post about it but it wasn’t approved. All come from one user Marythisk who needs banning ASAP
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If you tap the ! symbol at the top of the PM you can report it but I’ve reported 4 such messages so far
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PGoomba wrote: Today, 18:10 Hi,

Is anyone getting spammed with messages about this?
The last one came from a user called 'Marythisk'. This person only joined Monday 17th August 2026 so I can only assume this isn't any approved message from any forum admin. How do I report / block this person? I cannot see any option on their profile to do any such thing. Apparently I can add them as a foe, but I'm not sure what this will block them.

Thanks,
Yeah, I've had four such messages today from that account! You can create a message rule that will automatically delete their messages, but annoyingly you still get a notification about them. I don't think adding them as a foe will block private messages from them either.
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yep every few hours, totally pissed off with it now, some stupid plonker thinks we'll fall for some malware crap
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Yes, have also been spammed with similar messages.

Will contact Mystara and KaM individually regarding this.
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Same here. Wasn't too sure who to contact, so I messaged Drassil.
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They've had their account deleted.

I've also changed the permissions for Newly Registered Users so that they now cannot send private messages. I always wanted to avoid doing that, but I don't really see an alternative.
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