Reporting spam

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:57 pm

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UNSONPYPE: https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2931

still up and running (this one's a definite spambot).

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:38 pm

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Fienniapy

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2933

Pretty sure this is a spambot.

Post by **Cmdr James** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:36 am

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
JazHaz wrote:
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XRumerFan

9 entries on SFS
A variation on an old "favourite"...

And back again registered today

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2935

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:55 am

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Also up for deletion:

black-kitten: https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2933

Weird location, and the spamtastic two-words-and-a-comma "occupation" and "interests". Plus two hits already on SFS for the email address.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:17 am

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Spammer post: Don't Tell the Kids

by inetryconydot

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:45 pm

* Listing “admin” as occupation is more than enough for me

Don't like the look of this one:

WillieFox https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:15 pm

El Viejo wrote:
Don't like the look of this one:

WillieFox https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936

You're probably right. Four hits on SFS, and some more under other names from the same IP address.

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:30 pm

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Member2

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2936

Could just be paranoia on my part. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:39 pm

Loxley wrote:
Member2

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2936

Could just be paranoia on my part. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

Probable, but with no evidence and no spumy links I’m not doing anything about it.

Post by **Disembodied** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:03 am

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Member2: https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936

After a bit of googling ("member2 profile") I'd say this was almost a certainty. There are a bunch of brand-new registrations for this name on a range of forums – "MMORPG Games", "Download 4 All", "SybianTalk.net", "ELT World Discussion" – and at least one as-yet-undeleted spam posting (made 40 minutes ago) on the last one in that list for mobile phones.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:23 pm

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I don't like the look of this one:

unfamb https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936

varsator · Post by **varsator** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:22 pm

I see you have a lot of problems with bots here.

I don't know if the version of phpBB you are running allows this but I did something on another board that helped a lot with bots. I implemented a "custom profile field - number" that requested from the registering user the answer of a simple math question. Then marked the field as visible in the registration screen and also required. Finally, in the "Profile type specific options" I set the maximum and minimum values to the result of the math operation.

In this way, if the bots do not nail the result of the math operation exactly their registration is denied. You would be surprised of how many of the sophisticated bots do not know simple math.

allikat · Post by **allikat** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:20 am

varsator wrote:
In this way, if the bots do not nail the result of the math operation exactly their registration is denied. You would be surprised of how many of the sophisticated bots do not know simple math.

In time, they will work around this, they just need to code a solver for the math, and a detection routine to spot it. They are already running a captcha breaker on some bots, simply by using faked websites to host captcha tests, and making the poor schmucks who end up there pass the tests to get scammed, and keeping a database of the answers online for the bots to search.
But it will certainly work for a while, which is all you really need. Just install it for now, and replace it with a new signup verification routine when the bots start penetrating it.

Post by **another_commander** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:56 pm

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JamesWilliams: https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2937

Email is flagged on SFS, multiple forum registrations today, suspected PM bot. Anyone receiving PMs from this account, please ignore and don't click on links.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:03 pm

another_commander wrote:
JamesWilliams: https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2937

Email is flagged on SFS, multiple forum registrations today, suspected PM bot. Anyone receiving PMs from this account, please ignore and don't click on links.

But he's the manager of the StopSpam Organization....