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 Post subject: Spammers
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:51 am 
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It seems some spammers have started to figure out how to get past the registration process. I have deleted suspect users but if you suspect one, please PM me with the user name of the suspect & we'll investigate.

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We also seem to be getting phantom PMs. We'll post updates here?

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Phantom PM:
You get an email from us indicating you have a PM but when you go there, there is no PM.

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We're getting about 125 'illegitimate' attempts per day to join the forum. Some still get through but these are mostly humans, not 'bots.

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Stephen, It appears we have another one in "18 Watt" :roll:

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Deleted several members who posted things like 'New to the forum', 'How's it going' etc.

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We have had more reports of PMs being sent with NO Message.

So we have temporarily turned off PM capabilities to see if they persist.

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So were some of the guys asking where we were from reallynot interested in where we were from? I m shocked ;)

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coco wrote:
We have had more reports of PMs being sent with NO Message.

So we have temporarily turned off PM capabilities to see if they persist.


Has anyone got an empty PM since we turned this off?

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Another one to delete in 18 Watt Stephen :?

Anything new with the PM issues? My amp building social life has gone down the tubes since you shut it down :P

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AaronTassle has been deleted

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What about Hugo, man of a thousand faces :)

DOnt delete me!

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Hugo? I cant find a Hugo. I guess Hugo's Gone!

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Sorry for the hassles folks.

We tried turning on PM again and it looks like there is still a BOT in the machine so PM is off again.

Any PM regarding SPAM are NOT for real. We will look into this again. We recently turned PM back on but looks like we still have a problem.

We have removed the offending user & turned off PM indefinitely. We are also going to review / update the forum.

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coco
 Post subject: Re: Spammers
PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:11 pm 
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You probably noticed a lot of spam activity lately. Obviously these idiots have nothing better to do.

We have changed the registration process to experiment with settings and hope that will prevent excessive activity. I cleaned out over 200 of them, not including all the ones I deleted when I noticed them posting.

Bear with us please.

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Thanks Stephen :D :D
It was getting difficult to detemine good posts from spam, especially on weekends when they come out of the woodwork :bugeye:
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Of course, it could be that no one can answer the skill testing new registration question, including the SPAMBOTS.

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Recently, a lot of spammers posting their crappy goods on the forum. I have set registration to manual until the tidal wave subsides.

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 Post subject: Re: Spammers
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The problem with the spammers got so bad we turned registration off until we found a solution to the registration process. We have implemented a new registration feature that is very promising. Hopefully, the spambots will not be able to register on this forum any longer and we will go back to normal again. Since we implemented this, we have had no attempted registrations! :happydance:

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