What's with the SPAM
Peter Jakacki
Posts: 10,193
Dear Moderators,
This is the second "business card" spam we have had in the last couple of days. Could we have automatic moderation for any first time posters and perhaps any "business card" titles? I also see another spammer with "The installation way for LED Panels" which at least sounds informative but it's still spam.
This is the second "business card" spam we have had in the last couple of days. Could we have automatic moderation for any first time posters and perhaps any "business card" titles? I also see another spammer with "The installation way for LED Panels" which at least sounds informative but it's still spam.
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Hello!
Good catch. This saves me from doing it. The other question is the obvious one, of where is all of this stuff coming from.
Were do they come from? The same suspects that are on every forum. Many new users are deleted before they even make posts, based on IP address and user name, so there is pre-moderation that goes on behind the scenes.
Be assured that the moderators are working hard this form clean. Sometimes one or two slip through. That's the exception, not the norm.
Have a beer Friday, and take Sat/Sun off boys.
Maybe if the business card deal included free beer or fo'rum......
-Phil
You know how the old saying slightly rearranged goes "work, the curse of the drinking class!"
So, keep up the "good work" guys!
It's like a meteor shower, try around 3-4am time.
And now, something completely different...
EDIT: still more coming. Gimme the moderator wheel and I'll drive these spammers off I say, or else send in the Vikings!
EDIT: oh man, all the recent posts are being obliterated by this spam flood.
Ther's not even any bacon or eggs, just spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
Either spamming works, in some odd way we cannot fathom. Or he is selling spamming software to the gullible who think it will work. Or perhaps selling spamming services to said gullibles.
Given that actually generating Spam is probably very cheap to do there's no doubt a few dollars to be made out of it somehow.
:-)
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I guess the SpamBot didn't read the rules about multiple postings.
Thanks for that but Isn't there anything that can be done about these SpamBots? Whatever happened to moderating a first-time poster?
What you see here is only a fraction of what could get through – if we weren't taking any steps to block them, which we are. Although we have measures in place, some bots will always get through, so in those cases we ask you to keep flagging the affected posts so our kind and patient moderators can disappear them as soon as possible.
Your assistance is appreciated.
It's like the flu. They are ever changing.
Thanks Buck.
The people in OZ, (late) and Europe, (early) get to see these before I hit them around 5:00AM EST.
Perhaps the spam filtering could cut off any new poster from so many consecutive postings with a long time out after something like 20 in one day?
What I find interesting is why the bots were writing in that particular written language.
It was both.
As far as I could tell every post was different. Containing what looked like tables of keys and values. Or user names and passwords. I have no idea. My browser here displayed most of it as square boxes.