Forum spammers getting annoying!

[Dan]

Hi guys,

Firstly, apologies for not being around as much as I should be. We're here in the background dealing with things but generally don't have much time to chat in threads. We're getting a bit more time now so will be on more and more each week.

Secondly, wow, this spam is getting silly now. From time to time forums do go through these phases. The developers find a fix and then the spammers work around it. It's an ongoing thing. Seem to be losing the battle at the moment though.

We've just blocked the registrations of a few dozen email addresses that seem to be common with spammers, but no genuine members use. I've also enabled the Cloudflare filter, although I don't think it'll stop all of it as they appear to be humans registering rather than bots.

We will keep adding to the email list as and when they use knew addresses, but the problem is the likes of @gmail.com and @live.com etc are common ones used by genuine people spammers using those will still get through.

Keep reporting the spam and we'll keep removing it, and adding their emails to the system.

In the meantime I'm testing a few anti-spam registration systems to see which one works best, then will implement that across the network.

So hang in there for us.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

List going atm of the past month is in the report section dan trying to get rid of them as fast as I can but they seem to learn as there posting 3:30-4am in the mornings now

 

[Harvest Fields]

List going atm of the past month is in the report section dan trying to get rid of them as fast as I can but they seem to learn as there posting 3:30-4am in the mornings now

I have stopped adding you into them and don’t open them anymore shaun. Thought I wasn’t helping. Do you still
Want me to link them to you?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I have stopped adding you into them and don’t open them anymore shaun. Thought I wasn’t helping. Do you still
Want me to link them to you?

Upto you mate if you do come across any just press the report button

 

[Harvest Fields]

Upto you mate if you do come across any just press the report button

Have just been ignoring them. As opening them definitely seemed to make them worse

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Have just been ignoring them. As opening them definitely seemed to make them worse

Best thing to do there a pita but get paid to do it

 

[Harvest Fields]

Best thing to do there a pita but get paid to do it

??

 

[ShaunCorbs]

??

They get paid to spam forums with adds and best to ignore them as they don't get the views

 

[Phil]

Russians!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Russians!

Close most of them were from Pakistan

 

[townfanjon]

Russians!

Just what I thought

 

[SimonG]

Now where am I going to get my supplements from?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Now where am I going to get my supplements from?

Holland and Barrett

 

[plumbandplumber]

The little blue 'supplements'?

 

[Chuck]

You already have a category of 'trusted' users. Perhaps you could give them a 'spammer' button that will nuke a new registrant if clicked by at least three trustees within, say, 24 hours of the accounts' first post?

This would help reduce the burden on Shaun Corbs and the admins.

 

[Gasmk1]

On the right side under adverts my electricians forum bit is in Chinese ?