Over the last week we have had someone spoofing posts on public forums from our officers.  They have tried to turn away applicants, to cause friction in the guild with new applicants and to make the guild (especially us officers) look like a bunch of jerks.   The spoofs have been done very well - with copied sigs and avatars.

So far, they have managed to spoof posts from 3 different officers - about a half dozen times.  We have been deleting the content and blocking sigs and avatars to make it obvious the posts are fake (we have not deleted some of the posts because we want examples).  But still, the need to keep constant watch on the site is putting us on edge, to say the least.

Whomever is doing this has also managed to take over at least one officer's mailbox to send and receive mails - that they have used to try to further sow dissention.

They are using new IDs to create the posts and not registering on the site, so we cannot pick up the usernames.  This is not a matter of anyone's actual GP account being hacked, as the officers who have been spoofed can all still make their own posts - and the spoofs are not actually using their IDs anyway.

We have a list of the IDs and have placed a ticket with GP.  However, any constructive advice that anyone has for this problem would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you,

Moolniya,
Council Member and Recruiting Officer
Corrupted Destiny, Skywall Server, World of Warcraft

We have 4 tiers of access for our forums: public, members only, officers only, and super-admins only.  The problem is occurring on the public forums - on the ones for applications and public raiding info (used for coordinating with allied guilds and providing general raiding info to applicants).  If we make these public forums members-only, no-one could apply.  Hence, this is not a solution.

 The first thing I would do, is make the page member only access. Secondly, you can also make the forums password protected. You might consider to inform all of the members to ignore any and all posts made in the public posts, or deleting the public posts option all together! And as replied by another use the ban list!
  As players come and go in our guilds; those that left us are more than likely bitter, that they are no longer there! I'm sure it's not the admins fault, so take a close look at the jerks who left the guild!
  Then pull out a can of whoop ass on them!