Getting fed up with all the SPAM!

[Matt B]

Is it just me or does there seem to be a massive SPAM explosion lately?
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[fatpies]

Yes and the auto revoke function means rating spam, spam is bad for your karma
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[Mr.Everready]

[UnknownStuntm...]

To be fair though, you do get what you pay for.

[Korn]

[MarJay]

By CVV, do they mean credit card details? Lots of very very dodgy spam on here at the moment...
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[Kickstart]

[CaNsA]

How are they creating accounts?

Is the captcha thingy a bit pants?

[Kickstart]

Hi

Captcha is fairly useless. By the time it gets hard enough to stop bots then most people can't read it.

All the best

Keith
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Traxpics, track day and racing photographs - Bimota Forum - Bike performance / thrust graphs for choosing gearing

[CaNsA]

How about a random image pulled from a library of say 10 and a question box asking 1 of 3 questions that change each time the page is loaded relating to that image?

Sound good?

[Kickstart]

Hi

Entirely possible. Main thing to do is make the system different from all the other phpbb forums. But some spammers will no doubt just be people being paid pennies to register all over the place.

However that is up to Korn.

Gmail email accounts make life easy for the spammers. You can add full stops to the first part and they are ignored by google, but will appear as different email addresses to most site. Similarly you can add a plus to the end of the first part and anything after that is ignored by google.

All the best

Keith
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Traxpics, track day and racing photographs - Bimota Forum - Bike performance / thrust graphs for choosing gearing

[Rogerborg]

Show loads of thumbnail images.

"Find the nobcat".


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[Rogerborg]

https://i47.tinypic.com/27yvg94.png

Y U NO instaban new accounts based on keywords that they use over and over and over again?
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Alpha-9]

Why/How has your BCF got the blues?
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[Matt B]

[Korn]

1) These are humans creating accounts. They're paid to sit there in china/india/wherever and post spam using proxies installed onto spyware-infested home computers in the UK/US/europe. It's far cheaper to pay for human spam than to come up with a spam bot that actually works these days.

2) Of the last 100 accounts removed using the "nuke spammer" mod tool, only 4 had gmail accounts. Most spammers aren't using gmail/hotmail/mail.ru anymore, and why would they with the availability of hacked email accounts across a variety of diverse domain names being so high?
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[pinkyfloyd]

Seems logical. I mean its cheaper to pay indians to make our clothes these days, one would also assume its easier to pay them to cook our spam for us too.
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[Irn-Bru]

I was going to suggest auto declining members who input profile information (and obviously stating so) but if it's humans doing it it'll be no good I suppose.

I used to run a forum a few years back (~30K members, warez mainly, got shut down by Sony eventually ) and it was a constant battle with spam bots, tried all sorts of phpbb plugins, what worked for us was what I said earlier along with answering questions (5x5, what colour is the sky, etc.). Ultimately all that stuff comes at the expense of annoying new users. Small forums can get away with making the first few posts only appear after admin approval, obviously no good on a forum of this size.
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[Rogerborg]

[Korn]

[Irn-Bru]

Since there's no report feature on this forum, would a good idea not to be as follows:

1. User reports post a spam as per current method
2. Forum pops up "Would you like to report this post to an admin?"
3. Yes/No
4. Warning about false reports resulting in bad karma
5. Admin gets an email or PM

Summit like that.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

I will carry on dishing out the to the late night / morning spammers. Last night / this morning I loads of spambot posts and when I logged back in this morning I could only see one of the posts still.

[Bendy]