Spam Everywhere

[mowerman05]

Ric on your list of spammers there are 2 names that have a + after the name, does that have a meaning of some sort because my name is one of them, thanks:confused2:

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Ric on your list of spammers there are 2 names that have a + after the name, does that have a meaning of some sort because my name is one of them, thanks:confused2:

It means they are in your contacts.

 

[Ric]

Thursday morning 5.35 there are 18 members signed in 10 are spammers and 8 have already been banned and this is every day. The problem is we can ban members but we can't delete them from the forum so there still on the membership list and can sign in when ever they like. Deleted all of the accounts with .vn e-mail addresses; they're all spammers and that's fine but that's only a small percentage, what about all the others. You have at least one third of the membership here that are spammers, you have a number of members registered as many as two to six different times. The thing is one spammer breeds more spammers and it's only getting worse daily and it's to the point of the forum being flooded with spammers.

It means they are in your contacts.

Hey LMF do you remember this post I made and I Talked about members being or joining as many six times, here's an example.

dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy :

and there has to be at least a dozen more members with multiple accounts.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Now that you point all of this out I believe more and more that this forum won't last long if something is not done...more than before you pointed out all of these examples. :confused3:

 

[buzzzmeister]

Hey LMF do you remember this post I made and I Talked about members being or joining as many six times, here's an example.

dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy
dgfirefly	10-16-2013	0		Homeowner (under 1 acre)	Oregon	Looking to Buy :

and there has to be at least a dozen more members with multiple accounts.

Forum software was never properly configured to disallow multiple single username accounts. Probably configured to also allow multiple username single email accounts.

 

[davbell22602]

Now that you point all of this out I believe more and more that this forum won't last long if something is not done...more than before you pointed out all of these examples. :confused3:

What happened to the Arborsite will happen here in time.

 

[Ric]

Here's another example of spammers doubling up on there membership.

ngothai392	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	977661237	977661237
ngothai392	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	977661237	977661237
longphat194	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	964461978	964461978
longphat194	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	964461978	964461978
haigiap317	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	961661978	961661978
haigiap317	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	961661978	961661978
ngocthai866	10-06-2013	0		Equipment Manufacturer	989004227	989004227
ngocthai866	10-06-2013	0		Equipme

 

[davbell22602]

They need to fix that soon. One of those spammers might also be a hacker. If so it will destroy the site in no time.

 

[buzzzmeister]

They need to fix that soon. One of those spammers might also be a hacker. If so it will destroy the site in no time.

No hacker. If it is you would of seen much worse by now.

Management seems to be unwilling to get rid of spam accounts to maybe boost membership numbers for increased ad revenue? Nothing like a bit of deceit & dishonesty with inflated active forum participants when you have $$ rolling in. With the spam posts gone, there's only half the forum participation left hence less advertising revenue.

 

[Ric]

Not a whole lot going on this morning so I spent a little time in the membership list. Went through twenty pages of our newest members and found spammer listed on 17 of the 20 pages and this spammer Girl15T9x11 has joined our forum probably 15 or 20 times by just changing the numbers behind the name Girl. Now I have to wonder about what there is to find on the other 1100 pages of membership :ashamed::ashamed::ashamed: