Get out of here Mulberry

[Ric]

I vote yes to get rid of him too. I also notice theres another spammer, mussbay or mossbay?

Ok all eleven post are gone and he has been banned but he will most likely be back tomorrow.

 

[Ric]

hoa.hoa251 has also had his post removed and is banned. if you look at the currently active users list you'll find that he is still there along with the others listed in red. Some are banned some are not but the ones that are not banned haven't posted as of yet so there's nothing we can do about them. I know people look at us as moderators and think we can take care of about anything that comes up but in reality we are very very limited as to what we can do so plese keep that in mind the next time someone says we are not doing our job here as moderators.



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[buzzzmeister]

hoa.hoa251 has also had his post removed and is banned. if you look at the currently active users list you'll find that he is still there along with the others listed in red. Some are banned some are not but the ones that are not banned haven't posted as of yet so there's nothing we can do about them. I know people look at us as moderators and think we can take care of about anything that comes up but in reality we are very very limited as to what we can do so plese keep that in mind the next time someone says we are not doing our job here as moderators.

There's a few things you (LMF) can do. Where are most of the spam and potential spam accounts joining from, China? Vietnam? If you block anything and everything .cn or .vn you'll probably eliminate 90% of the problem. Whole country host & IP bans are easy enough to do.

As for the accounts that join and they haven't posted and if you know or have a very strong suspicion they're spam accounts, put them on a 2 week administrative hold with an email address to contact. If they log in within those 14 days and make no attempt to make contact, permaban the account. Period. I can guarantee you they'll be back on the 15th day or in 15 weeks or in 15 months to do their thing. They always come back.

You guys report (ip/email/username) to SFS? If not, do so. Even if there's no reportable evidence for SFS (post spam, signature spam, link spam, hidden spam, etc.), in the evidence box, report that the account was caught in the LMF honeypot. 'Tis all you need to report for evidence but make damn sure (Google and SFS searches are your friends) said spammer has been previously reported. This is also a good thing to do before the administrative hold accounts are permabanned. Check on SFS, if they've been reported, re-report. You have 14 days to report to SFS.

Spam can be beat down to where its an amusing thing to toy with on a rainy day. You just have to work at it 24/7. EVERY new account needs to have the IP and at least the email addy run through the SFS database. If you had a spam account get through its because it wasn't previously reported. Spam accounts don't report themselves. The only way SFS works is if everything is reported and asap. Report, report, report. I have roughly 1000 new members sign up every month on my forum. Every new account gets a background check within 24 hours. I went from perhaps 15% spam accounts a couple of years ago to 3-5 spam accounts/month. It can be beat. Once you get blacklisted on Xrumer then spammers pretty much leave you alone. :laughing:

 

[JSB33]

You should be able to do a IP ban very easily. You can also ban by email. And as suggested above, simply blocking and registration from .cn can do wonders to keep the spam away. If a legitimate member from China wants to join, they can always sens an email. I have used this method on my forum for years.

 

[Ric]

There's a few things you (LMF) can do. Where are most of the spam and potential spam accounts joining from, China? Vietnam? If you block anything and everything .cn or .vn you'll probably eliminate 90% of the problem. Whole country host & IP bans are easy enough to do.

As for the accounts that join and they haven't posted and if you know or have a very strong suspicion they're spam accounts, put them on a 2 week administrative hold with an email address to contact. If they log in within those 14 days and make no attempt to make contact, permaban the account. Period. I can guarantee you they'll be back on the 15th day or in 15 weeks or in 15 months to do their thing. They always come back.

You guys report (ip/email/username) to SFS? If not, do so. Even if there's no reportable evidence for SFS (post spam, signature spam, link spam, hidden spam, etc.), in the evidence box, report that the account was caught in the LMF honeypot. 'Tis all you need to report for evidence but make damn sure (Google and SFS searches are your friends) said spammer has been previously reported. This is also a good thing to do before the administrative hold accounts are permabanned. Check on SFS, if they've been reported, re-report. You have 14 days to report to SFS.

Spam can be beat down to where its an amusing thing to toy with on a rainy day. You just have to work at it 24/7. EVERY new account needs to have the IP and at least the email addy run through the SFS database. If you had a spam account get through its because it wasn't previously reported. Spam accounts don't report themselves. The only way SFS works is if everything is reported and asap. Report, report, report. I have roughly 1000 new members sign up every month on my forum. Every new account gets a background check within 24 hours. I went from perhaps 15% spam accounts a couple of years ago to 3-5 spam accounts/month. It can be beat. Once you get blacklisted on Xrumer then spammers pretty much leave you alone. :laughing:

You should be able to do a IP ban very easily. You can also ban by email. And as suggested above, simply blocking and registration from .cn can do wonders to keep the spam away. If a legitimate member from China wants to join, they can always sens an email. I have used this method on my forum for years.

Your not telling me anything I don't know, I'm the Administrator of several other forums. The problem is I can't use the IP address/ email here to ban a member. As moderators and using the moderator control panel we don't have access to use those. Moderators can permanently ban members using there usernames only, to be done using anything else has to apparently has to come from the administrative level. LMF and myself are doing the best we can do with what we have.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Your not telling me anything I don't know, I'm the Administrator of several other forums. The problem is I can't use the IP address/ email here to ban a member. As moderators and using the moderator control panel we don't have access to use those. Moderators can permanently ban members using there usernames only, to be done using anything else has to apparently has to come from the administrative level. LMF and myself are doing the best we can do with what we have.

Yep, Ric's right!

 

[buzzzmeister]

Your not telling me anything I don't know, I'm the Administrator of several other forums. The problem is I can't use the IP address/ email here to ban a member. As moderators and using the moderator control panel we don't have access to use those. Moderators can permanently ban members using there usernames only, to be done using anything else has to apparently has to come from the administrative level. LMF and myself are doing the best we can do with what we have.

No 'supermod' option in the forum software? Its a pothole filled road if mods have to ban by username only without having at least the option to see where the member hails from.

I've got things set up with my 2 most Sr. moderators with supermod power and they have the ability to ban using username, email or in the very rare case with a couple (or more) accounts popping up with the same IP, to ban all or selectively prune by IP. Makes life much easier for everyone when there's multiple avenues of attack. vB 4.x.x.

 

[buzzzmeister]

legitimate member from China

There is no such thing. :laughing:

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

No 'supermod' option in the forum software? Its a pothole filled road if mods have to ban by username only without having at least the option to see where the member hails from.

I've got things set up with my 2 most Sr. moderators with supermod power and they have the ability to ban using username, email or in the very rare case with a couple (or more) accounts popping up with the same IP, to ban all or selectively prune by IP. Makes life much easier for everyone when there's multiple avenues of attack. vB 4.x.x.

I looked in the Moderator view of my (and Ric's) profile pages. Apparently we are already considered super moderators. :confused2:

 

[txzrider]

This is an interesting thread, but I think it misses the opportunity to discuss what is really going on with much of the spam I have seen here. Most of it is nonsense text with hidden urls as part of the text, whose sole purpose in many cases is to deliver drive by malware! google moneypack virus(or fbi virus) to see and example. Many of the users on these forums are not IT people and might not recognise the risk for what it is. Getting rid of the spam is the best thing however once it is on the forum and starting to get read... then the risk rises.