nacoran
1651 posts
Apr 13, 2010
7:26 PM
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Their name was ip123456. I don't know if they are a new spammer or just an old one that got churned up. I deleted the message but I don't know if there will be more.
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Nate
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eharp
634 posts
Apr 13, 2010
7:28 PM
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i am on a few forums. i have never seen spammers on most of them.
how come this site gets so many? is there anything the forumites do?
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nacoran
1652 posts
Apr 13, 2010
7:31 PM
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It's possible someone has a virus, but it's likely someone in a third world country is posting them for a dirt cheap wage. Some forums have spam filters that will catch some of it. Most forums just have moderators who delete the stuff. I've wondered what attracts a spammer to a forum. I have no idea.
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Nate
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nacoran
1653 posts
Apr 13, 2010
7:44 PM
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Yeap. They posted some more new spam.
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Nate
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RyanMortos
708 posts
Apr 13, 2010
7:52 PM
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A lot of forums & other sites have tighter registration security.
For example, do you see all those sites that display an image and have you enter the characters from that image to create an account? These are 'random' images stored on a database with actual text representations attached to them. A bot cannot know what an image has on it. At best it can find what the image is called but that won't help it. Then the bot cannot register & cannot post but humans can get passed this step (sometimes with effort! some of those are darn hard to read, lol).
Now I have sudden urge to buy some jewelry...
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~Ryan
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nacoran
1655 posts
Apr 13, 2010
8:06 PM
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LOL! I think I just figured out why ip123456 is spamming. His posts were on the metal toxicity post and he was posting spam for W O W G O L D!!!
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Nate
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eharp
636 posts
Apr 14, 2010
3:59 PM
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thanks for the lesson on spamming.
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