Spammer

Well.. Just ran a trace on the spammer...

traced two separate ip's used.

One ended up at a uni in Iran. Another in the linkbynet solutions network solution in france. (ISP probably was tiscali, as it went through that network...)

So either we have a travelling spammer, or a group, or someone controlling a botnetwork.

Interesting. I would have thought they would have thing to do.

Apparently I am wrong.

oh and instead of deleting the isersz, can mods please just ban them, sending the username to me. I can them analyse them for wildcards...

"Admin" wrote:
Well.. Just ran a trace on the spammer...

traced two separate ip's used.

One ended up at a uni in Iran. Another in the linkbynet solutions network solution in france. (ISP probably was tiscali, as it went through that network...)

So either we have a travelling spammer, or a group, or someone controlling a botnetwork.

Interesting. I would have thought they would have thing to do.

Apparently I am wrong.

Admin Admin Admin, oh simple minded admin,

What we have is a spammer with an IP spoof, which means yo cnt trace his ip address becuz he's goin thru sum funny proxies in iran, the philippines or on Mars, either way, u wunt track him unless u got sum wicked software or a reason to get MI5 involved.

neway, did the spammer post summin funny, im bored

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even i knew bout IP spoofing!!

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He is free, he is mad,
He dances with ecstasy and delight.

Caught by our own thoughts,
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The thing about ip spoofing is that you have to ge a spoof... so it will taake the spammer time and effort with no gain at all.

Make 1 post, and then go through the whole process all over again...

But then the spammer may have a botnet.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.

Admin ...... sum1 keeps posting dodgy stuff on here!!

and there was a registered user online earlier today...and his url link was a dodgy site :?

The Lover is ever drunk with love;
He is free, he is mad,
He dances with ecstasy and delight.

Caught by our own thoughts,
We worry about every little thing,
But once we get drunk on that love,
Whatever will be, will be.

ɐɥɐɥ

I know... unfortunately with popularity there are downsides.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.

[color=blue]I seem to be deleting one or two of his dodgy threads everytime im on here. Ive also taken your advice and banned his IP but he keeps coming back.

We need a new plan.

-ThePhantomMod[/color]

It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

Does he actually go though the process of registering and then posting on the forum?

[b]An action plan:[/b]

will be to stop instant membership to this forum, and let the new user to wait for a few days before you validate his account as active, the spammer will get inpatient waiting and simply move on. And that why you can cross reference his IP address with any other account he is trying to register with.

Feedback please?

Why does there need to be an easy fix where there is greater constriction but no more modding is required? The spamming is annoying but Mods clean it up quickly and nobody seems to be bothered by it... Whereas losing the guest function all together and getting rid of instant membership means even more closed doors.

Instant membership will remain.

So far it requied a captcha AND activation by email.

I have banned certain email address from working. (anything .ru will not work. Sorry if any russians wanna join...)

Gotta keep the Mods employed. There are other things I can do, but do not want to mod the forums too much.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.

MPAC don’t have an instant membership policy, takes 2-3 days for MPAC team to email you, this works well for them. Forums which has instant membership are easy pickings for spammers- I fear one spammer will spam this forum out with indecent images, and then Admin you’ll have plenty of work to do as and when that happens- Allah forbid off course.

"(*_Shazan" wrote:
MPAC don’t have an instant membership policy, takes 2-3 days for MPAC team to email you, this works well for them. Forums which has instant membership are easy pickings for spammers- I fear one spammer will spam this forum out with indecent images, and then Admin you’ll have plenty of work to do as and when that happens- Allah forbid off course.

That last part is a good point Admin, we get a lot of porn spammers for some reason, so far it's just been links and incoherent nonsense. Judging by the various things these [i]people write[/i] if they start putting in pictures I think I'd be scarred for life

Well, we do have some other anti spam featres aswell. Such as there being a certain period of time you have to wait before being able to make another post.

There is also a word filter. If needed I can make things stricter, but I do not want to lose instant-membership.

I can also ban images, and do various other things... Its a long line of defence where I will modify it as and when needed.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.