guest sending pm's to my members......Help please[solved]

I received this message a few minutes in my pm box:

Inbox :: Message
Guest[Contact] hi - Today at 9:34 pm
Whats your name?
Email me: Edited by Skittles to remove email addy for security reasons




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How is a non-member/guest able to send pm's. I have never had this before. I am in the middle of switching from a phpbb2 to invision. Did I miss checking something? I know people say that it is hard for the forums under formation to be hacked but is this what is happening? Do I need to be concerned?

Are you sure its not just a member with the username 'Guest'?

I just recieved this same message as well.

Make sure that Guest is not a member on your forum. Then just ignore it.

No it is not and since then I am getting hammered with them. Here is some more:

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Guest[Contact] Horny - Today at 10:06 pmHi




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Guest[Contact] Jessica Haywooda - Today at 10:04 pmHi.
I am jessica and I am very hot.




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Guest[Contact] Hello - Today at 10:07 pmIt won't let me register. It says there is a error in the forumotion software. I cannot sign up and I would really like to join your forum and become a active member and make alot of posts. Could you please contact me on the support forum concerning this problem as I would really like to be a member on your forum. Thankyou very much and thank you for your time...




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Sender email address: Edited by Skittles to remove email addy for security reasons

Omg. I am getting worse ones, I have disabled the contact page. Maybe you should do that for maybe a day or two until all this stops??

This is getting serious. First of all, the admins aren't able to access there account because someone is changing their emails. Co-admin aren't able to moderate the main owner's account.

Also, the emails that are being changed someone relates to something. They are also hotmail (like what mine changed to). I believe there is a hacker.


Visit these links on some very recent related topics:

https://help.forumotion.com/other-problems-f46/important-t31268.htm

https://help.forumotion.com/other-problems-f46/hacker-important-t31198.htm

https://help.forumotion.com/other-problems-f46/caihlem-need-help-founder-password-lost-t31200.htm

Read what I posted on your thread: https://help.forumotion.com/other-problems-f46/important-t31268.htm

I did not experience what you are stating. Just someone pm-ing as a guest with the information that I posted and then they signed up for a membership.. I received 21 private messages that kept getting worse and worse. I don't understand how a non-member is able to send pm's but would like to know how to block them from being able to. I changed my forum back to a phpbb2 in the mean time. Till I know if it was from switching to invision. I have never had this until this change.

That message is form a contact form! (duh!)

First please don't (duh!) me. That is rude.

What do you mean form a contact form????

You have set up a contact form.

This is something like if you needed to talk to an Admin
Just like PM but in a different Set up. Don't worry this is just something a person did for the fun of it.

Is there a way to change it so some moron does not do it again? they also signed up as a member on the forum.

General > Message and Email>> Contact Form

thanks

I went in and it was set to yes. I changed it to no. Do you think it is safe to go back to the invision format that I was working on transferring everything over to or should I wait for a few days?

This has been solved for me. Thanks for getting me to the right place to get them to stop.

Can someone marked this as solved please?

K, can u please mark this solved since I received the help I needed not only by another forum member but by Caihlem as well this morning. Thanks