Updated on 31/08/23 by Blastoise186

The spammer accounts have now been erased. All of their PM Spam has been deleted by the system.

Thanks for the report!

I’ve informed the forum moderators. That spammer will be removed from the forum ASAP.

Thanks for your reply.  It was really weird.  I wondered how it got in my private messages and if anyone else has had this.  The user name was Apostleeric.

You weren’t the only one. The spammer hit a lot of accounts including mine. What they didn’t realise is that they also hit a spamtrap account or two. Let’s just say you don’t wanna be spamming those accounts. :)

Thanks.

Good to hear I wasn't the only one.

Is there any way of deleting this private message?

Yes. The forum moderators can erase that user, which completely wipes ALL their PMs from every inbox.

That’s the action I’ve recommended to them in this case

Yep.. I have that message too

I had that suspicion. The spammer must have really hammered the system.

Erasing them will get rid of the mess, but it takes up to 30 days to fully remove the account.

Either way, I’ve also let inSided know as this feels like the spammer bypassed abuse protections. My support account comes in pretty useful for these things

I have one as well from apostleeric1 rather than apostleeric

I assume best not to open at all and just leave for it to be deleted and dissappear 

Yeah, it’ll almost certainly get nuked either by Tim or by inSided. The support request I’ve got open with them should allow them to dig deeper into the logs even after that spammer gets erased. Logs are kept for six months so they’ve got plenty of time.

Yeah, me too . Apostleeric1 for me, no doubt once eric1 is gone, eric2 will pop up, then eric3. Do they really think anyone will fall for their pathetic scam?

That’s why I’m in talks with inSided. :)

They have very powerful tools to get rid of such pests and make sure they can’t come back to either the OVO Forum… Or any other community on the platform.

Oh i thought it was only me,the poor man trying to sell his gold.

Wouldn’t be the first time. :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9RL4RATwoY

I’ve had an update from the support system at inSided. This incident is being investigated.

If possible, I’ll ask them about whether they can do any remote deleting of the spam PMs from every inbox. Otherwise, there’s options like just erasing the spammer from the entire forum. They never posted publicly, so it’d be like they never existed.

I also had one but only just noticed it

Thanks @Lucky2 !

I can confirm that the decision has been taken to erase the spammers completely - this will wipe the PMs from your inboxes within 30 days.

If you have any more evidence, feel free to drop it in this thread as well as reporting the PM directly.