Thank you so much for making this topic! I too have been noticing and even mentioning the spam around the forums but never thought to make a topic about it (especially one this fantastic!) so congratulations!

And I'm going to straight up agree with you saying the spam is coming from the staff themselves and I'm even going to go out and say a MAJORITY of the spam is from them!

Something needs to be done, all I can do at the moment is report the posts, but I'm hoping someone that actually realises the current spam problem (you) will get forum moderator and does something about it!