Periodically I've been receiving email notifications that I have a new PM, but when I go to check my Inbox on this forum it appears to be empty. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's possible that someone keeps sending me a message and then deleting it before I get a chance to read it, but it's pretty annoying if that's the case because it's now happening repeatedly....

i got a random pm saying that i had a virus on my emac, and that i should follow some link to get rid of it

Yep got the same email. could it be a spam bot making a account and mass PMing people and then get the account deleted?
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There was a spammer who managed to get an account and posed as an administrator of the forum. The user was "LadyROOT" and sent many other legitimate users of this forum a PM with the same message: You have a virus installed on your PC and need to visit a website to get rid of it. As soon as I realized that this was the case, I deleted the user and banned the associated email address. Interestingly, phpBB automatically removed all of the PMs the user sent from the inbox of the recipient. So if you got an email from the forum saying you got a PM but there was none when you logged in, that was why.

I regret that this happened, but if you were foolish enough to follow the link, then, well, maybe you learned your lesson.

Peace,
Drew
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