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Pulled these six spam postings off the main forum this afternoon


http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-...utlet-store-|-garantia-de-qualidade-100%.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-discussion/21053-line-bridal-gowns.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-discussion/21054-réplica-relógios-de-marcas-de-luxo.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-discussion/21055-novos-modelos-2013-a.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-...ed-double-c-tote-bag-ap-2-$132-00-replic.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-...heart-earrings-$59-00-cheap-tiffany-jewe.html

Shaking my head

Spam, Last two or three days now we have been celebrating there birthdays, isn't it wonderful to promote our spammer friends.:thumbsup:

Today's Birthdays

• myan92d (25)

Awesome, Ugg boots. Haven't seen those being hawked in a couple of years. Brings back memories.

Too bad there's no calendar here, they always like to drop pron links in the calendars.

buzzzmeister said:

Awesome, Ugg boots. Haven't seen those being hawked in a couple of years. Brings back memories.

Too bad there's no calendar here, they always like to drop pron links in the calendars.

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Yeah I remember the calendar thing bot here they create or use picture albums. Check out this one, (about me column) just scroll down to albums and click he created 8 this morning, ugg boots seem to be popular.

View Profile: cynrlajh - Lawn Mower Forum

The only good thing is these were registered BEFORE we made changes about two weeks ago... so now we need to finish deleting the spam accounts that are already registered. I've been out of town for two weeks but am back now. :smile:

There is about 12 spam post in the brand specific forums this morning that need to be cleaned out.

Spam in the Wanted ads also.

OK there was a total of 15 spam posting and they have been removed and the member or poster if you prefer has been banned for what it's worth. If someone sees something else let me know. Otherwise as Phil on Duck Dynasty would say everyone should be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY

Just logged in:

View Profile: amtckrtycb - Lawn Mower Forum

buzzzmeister said:

Just logged in:

View Profile: amtckrtycb - Lawn Mower Forum

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It's not surprising, we have spammers on the or in the membership from when the forum was first started back in 2010. This one is resent , he joined In September 2013.

Heres another spammer

View Profile: vivaivielue - Lawn Mower Forum

We just deleted more than 1,500 spammer accounts. We have about 370 more that are identified as likely spammers that we need to delete. :thumbsup:

Muhammad said:

We just deleted more than 1,500 spammer accounts. We have about 370 more that are identified as likely spammers that we need to delete. :thumbsup:

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You have 1300 spammers still left in the Banned User List that have to be deleted and don't forget about all the multiple listings :thumbsup:

Ok the banned users are gone now too. :thumbsup:

Why not just ban their IP?

Works for my sites.

buzzzmeister said:

View Profile: tavdqueq - Lawn Mower Forum

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You know it's strange. I had three similar posts on my support forum the other day and I have to approve the posters.

How do they do that? Is it the host or a flaw in PHP?

View Profile: itbhvveb - Lawn Mower Forum

probably a couple more logged in right now but I'm too damn lazy this am to look. :laughing:

Terry CleanFuel said:

You know it's strange. I had three similar posts on my support forum the other day and I have to approve the posters.

How do they do that? Is it the host or a flaw in PHP?

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Are they posting from a different IP than their registration IP?

buzzzmeister said:

Are they posting from a different IP than their registration IP?

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It's not hard to spoof an IP and there are plenty of proxies out there. All you can do is weed them daily.

buzzzmeister said:

Are they posting from a different IP than their registration IP?

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The problem is there not posting messages, there creating albums with there advertisements. There has been at least 5 new spammers that joined the forum today that I know of and probably a few more. It happens every time he sends out his monthly news letter, so there coming from his other forums or where ever he is promoting this forum. I removed the albums but I'm leaving them registered so he can see there still joining and maybe he can do more to prevent it from happening.

View Profile: Jbagsfdnawfh - Lawn Mower Forum

Because after posting two threads last week its still here.

buzzzmeister said:

View Profile: Jbagsfdnawfh - Lawn Mower Forum

Because after posting two threads last week its still here.

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The postings have been removed, he just switched to albums.

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/jbagsfdnawfh-albums-tnrtk-woolrich-home-rn17730.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/jbagsfdnawfh-albums-wow-woolrich-grommet-curtains-gray.html

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/jbagsfdnawfh-albums-odrudk-woolrich-concealed-carry.html

Albums or not, they're still coming by the boatload. These are the ones that crawled out of the head.

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Need to tightened up on new members with security code for membership approval.

davbell22602 said:

Need to tightened up on new members with security code for membership approval.

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Unfortunately, that's the only way. I have the same problem.

How many admins do you have?

Terry CleanFuel said:

Unfortunately, that's the only way. I have the same problem.

How many admins do you have?

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There are 5 Administrators here on the forum along with 4 Moderators.

Ric said:

There are 5 Administrators here on the forum along with 4 Moderators.

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Holy smokes! You shouldn't have a problem keeping on top of it.

You can always "whois" and complain to their provider. Sometimes it works.

Terry CleanFuel said:

Holy smokes! You shouldn't have a problem keeping on top of it.

You can always "whois" and complain to their provider. Sometimes it works.

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You would think it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is something that can't be fixed and the only thing that can be done is for an administrator to stay on top of the situation and delete the spammers daily. Yes they have programs like the spam-o-matic they use here that are supposed to take care of the problem but for everyone of those programs they have or will have the spammers have already or will figured away around them.

Heres one for you guys


http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/small-engine-mower-repair/21372-goedkope-echte-uggs-egq.html

ILENGINE said:

Heres one for you guys


http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/small-engine-mower-repair/21372-goedkope-echte-uggs-egq.html

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Wow, a der Hollanders spammer. Ain't seen one of those in years. :laughing:

buzzzmeister said:

Wow, a der Hollanders spammer. Ain't seen one of those in years. :laughing:

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bots. I hate 'em with a passion. I get a lot from Caribbean excursion sites.

Looks like its time for Q&A Captcha. Hate to do it but I hate spam soooooo much!!!

Terry CleanFuel said:

bots. I hate 'em with a passion. I get a lot from Caribbean excursion sites.

Looks like its time for Q&A Captcha. Hate to do it but I hate spam soooooo much!!!

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Well as of about 2:00pm Today our spammer count is up to over 300 in the last 4 days.

davbell22602 said:

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I got it. Thank you for the report.:thumbsup:

View Profile: cnygecjozcxz - Lawn Mower Forum

Someone is having a lot of birthdays today:

View Profile: seoga3000 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: seoga3500 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: seoga3500 - Lawn Mower Forum (2 accounts)
View Profile: testernanolc12 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: dumeadmin2003 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: iwinxxvn - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: callboyblf5 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: callboyblf7 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: Girl15t9x9 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: Girl15t91x13 - Lawn Mower Forum
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/gamedinhv201.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/tuan31.html
And I'd eyeball this one long & hard - http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/mu2vnnet.html because miraculously, everyone is 23 today.

buzzzmeister said:

View Profile: cnygecjozcxz - Lawn Mower Forum

Someone is having a lot of birthdays today:

View Profile: seoga3000 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: seoga3500 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: seoga3500 - Lawn Mower Forum (2 accounts)
View Profile: testernanolc12 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: dumeadmin2003 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: iwinxxvn - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: callboyblf5 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: callboyblf7 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: Girl15t9x9 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: Girl15t91x13 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: gamedinhv201 - Lawn Mower Forum
View Profile: tuan31 - Lawn Mower Forum
And I'd eyeball this one long & hard - View Profile: mu2vnnet - Lawn Mower Forum because miraculously, everyone is 23 today.

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Yeah and miraculously 99% all have Gmail Addresses. All 350 that have registered in the last week or so. Some now are using Yahoo

Ric said:

Yeah and miraculously 99% all have Gmail Addresses. All 350 that have registered in the last week or so. Some now are using Yahoo

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Gmail addresses are by far the easiest to steal/phish from the legitimate owner.

Yahoo, aol, etc. all seem to run in cycles. Much less so since several of the domains have put limits on the number of addresses that can be had at one time. Gmail, however, if you want 12.1 million consecutive/random email addresses, no problem.

I used to get a lot of: IP originating in Asia, they'd fill in a European time zone, claim they were in South America and have a Yahoo.uk email address. I usually had them out the door fast enough that it couldn't hit them in the *** as they exited.

Two new anti-spam measures have been put in place. The registration process now uses a custom image that requires a human to look at an image and answer a question about the image (specifically, about mowers). This should help.

Muhammad said:

Two new anti-spam measures have been put in place. The registration process now uses a custom image that requires a human to look at an image and answer a question about the image (specifically, about mowers). This should help.

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Cool. :thumbsup: Now we have to get rid of the ones that are already here!

lawn mower fanatic said:

Cool. :thumbsup: Now we have to get rid of the ones that are already here!

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We're working on that as well. In fact by the middle of next week we hope to have a system for FAST and easy deletion of the spammers that are already in the system.

Glad to hear this is getting resolved.

Muhammad said:

We're working on that as well. In fact by the middle of next week we hope to have a system for FAST and easy deletion of the spammers that are already in the system.

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Thank you Muhammad.:thumbsup:

wjjones said:

Thank you Muhammad.:thumbsup:

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Ditto! Are you using capcha? Was it easy to implement?

Terry CleanFuel said:

Ditto! Are you using capcha? Was it easy to implement?

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No, we're not using captcha as the spam bots get past that. We're using a custom image verification that asks people to answer a question about a picture that is shown to them. For example, we have a picture of two mowers and the question is "how many mowers are in this picture?" If they answer "2" or "two" it lets them register. If they answer anything else, it makes them try again with a different picture (such as "what color is this mower?").

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Yeah I see there still registering and once they figure it out they'll be a lot more. The only way of stopping them would be by changing the New accounts activation system to Administration approval. That means you would need an Admin here to approve new membership registration daily before there allowed to enter the forum to do anything at all.

Ric said:

Yeah I see there still registering and once they figure it out they'll be a lot more. The only way of stopping them would be by changing the New accounts activation system to Administration approval. That means you would need an Admin here to approve new membership registration daily before there allowed to enter the forum to do anything at all.

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I say lets do the admin approval membership setting.

Ric said:

Yeah I see there still registering and once they figure it out they'll be a lot more. The only way of stopping them would be by changing the New accounts activation system to Administration approval. That means you would need an Admin here to approve new membership registration daily before there allowed to enter the forum to do anything at all.

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Every captcha that's out there has been broken and the new ones are usually broken within a week. 'Tis just a mater of time before any sort of challenge questions are broken. If they want in, they'll get in.

Ric said:

Yeah I see there still registering and once they figure it out they'll be a lot more. The only way of stopping them would be by changing the New accounts activation system to Administration approval. That means you would need an Admin here to approve new membership registration daily before there allowed to enter the forum to do anything at all.

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That's not so bad. New registrants can still read until approved right?

A small price to pay.

Terry CleanFuel said:

New registrants can still read until approved right?

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That's right.

davbell22602 said:

I say lets do the admin approval membership setting.

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Most forums that have this kind of problem go with the Administrative approval system. Generally speaking you only have to regulate the system that way for a few months. Once you let them know that they can no longer register without Administrative Approval they'll stop trying. The Problem is that most administrators don't understand that there dealing with hackers and if there good there isn't anything thing they can't get around.

Merry Xmas: View Profile: maularemaula - Lawn Mower Forum

buzzzmeister said:

Merry Xmas: View Profile: maularemaula - Lawn Mower Forum

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They have been banned.

So how hard is it to get rid of the new spammers???

Ric said:

Most forums that have this kind of problem go with the Administrative approval system. Generally speaking you only have to regulate the system that way for a few months. Once you let them know that they can no longer register without Administrative Approval they'll stop trying. The Problem is that most administrators don't understand that there dealing with hackers and if there good there isn't anything thing they can't get around.

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This is interesting:Are you human? is CAPTCHA needed? Some Alternatives. | .eduGuru

buzzzmeister said:

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Thank you for the report. This member has been taken care of, and will be deleted by the Admin.

View Profile: jahalumalu - Lawn Mower Forum

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Got it. :thumbsup:

buzzzmeister said:

View Profile: zeolenmaile - Lawn Mower Forum

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You know this is the same guy, he just re registers the next day.

Thread is gone and member banned for what good it does.

Ric said:

Thread is gone and member banned for what good it does.

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Just keep banning him thats all we can do, and let the admin delete them.

wjjones said:

Just keep banning him thats all we can do, and let the admin delete them.

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Ban his IP...

Terry CleanFuel said:

Ban his IP...

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Yep the admin has to delete the account to get rid of the member when we ban them they just use a different ip to re-join.