Spam email from your website - Check this now

[Phil]

Spammers have found a new toy, they are using the "tell a friend" features of websites and sending out spam, see an example below, check your email log in Bluepark and turn off the tell a friend feature if compromised.

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[petad]

I've been getting this for a while (mine were all porn related). There is a thread I started in which I asked Rich if we could have Image Verification on the Tell A Friend feature, but no luck just yet.

[Dave]

As Pete says this has been mentioned before here
http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=698&highlight=spam

There is no fix at the moment so best to turn tell a friend off.

It would be interesting to know how many people actually use the tell a friend feature because I think it will be very low!

[Rich]

Phil had a good suggestion, i.e. allowing the text box to optionally be turned off. I'll look into this as a possibility.