I too received the message "Hello, I would just like to wish you a Happy New Year: may all your dreams and aspirations come true
Take care"
So I googled it and heres what I found
Can pm spam be automated? - Admin Zone Forums
These are a new kind of "sleeper spam." If you do not carefully monitor joins, or otherwise do not have things like email validation and CAPTCHAs enabled, then those seemingly innocuous no-post registrations you got can come back to haunt you in exactly this fashion.
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So I googled it and heres what I found
Can pm spam be automated? - Admin Zone Forums
These are a new kind of "sleeper spam." If you do not carefully monitor joins, or otherwise do not have things like email validation and CAPTCHAs enabled, then those seemingly innocuous no-post registrations you got can come back to haunt you in exactly this fashion.