Thanks Ric,
I did see it there so I ignored it as I did not notice any method of deleting it.
The whole purpose of belonging to a forum is for information to be public so I rarely ever send a private message and reply to even fewer.
Never thought about reporting it, but I will in the future.
I run mine under simple machines a person I ride with did a check on the security features available on about 100 or so forum hosts & systems and Simple machines came up tops.
And you for one know just how seriously I take cyber security.
I don't particularly like the old captcha but the math captcha seemed to create less grief for the members.
Assuming our spammers are non English speaking then the version that uses numerals , words & pictures should work
And a honey pot will knock out most web bots.
I tried time traps but they never seemed to work.
Having looked back at the speed that the hackers are posting it does look more like a bot than a bum