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My forum is suffering a problem as of lately with user accounts being hacked.

What's happening (near as I can tell) is that hackers from overseas are getting into members accounts by guessing their passwords. Since some of these guys have strong passwords I have to imagine they are doing this using a program that attempts to cycle through password combinations.

Once they get in to the members account they post a listing in the classified section and people end up sending them money via...

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