Reporting spam

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:36 pm

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:39 am

*
Bots must be slacking,

Kern https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24099
Obvious,

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:19 pm

Fatleaf wrote:
Bots must be slacking

Ha... we should be so lucky!

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:00 am

* * * * * * *
Good luck with the flit!
If I should go missing, I have been eaten by the cardboard box monster,

Coiskbitalicageogs https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24117
Stupid name,

Dycleensulse https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24112
Obvious,

Scooxleallbal https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24113
Obvious,

brddzbkl https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24114
Obvious,

empigueoptipt https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24115
obvious,

amnistiyc https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24120
One entry on SFS,

SewZequeSal https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24122
Obvious,

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:09 am

Fatleaf wrote:
If I should go missing, I have been eaten by the cardboard box monster

A fearsome beast, is the cardboard box monster - good luck, Leafy!

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:37 am

* * *
Kristopher
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=24136
Looks very innocent, but needs a closer look.
Never logged on.
User name shows some recent hits on SFS, but it's a very common name so may be false hits in this case.
Zilch information in profile (looks like a place holder)

abammermasy
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=24139
Link pimp

Maranda310
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=24140
Again, looks very innocent, but needs a closer look.
Nothing on SFS, but shows up as a recently registered member on several forums on google.
Again there is zilch information in profile (looks like a place holder)

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:56 am

*****

pernecony
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24160
Link pimp

myzwbp6m
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24161
No hits on SFS or on Google.
Odd user name, empty profile.
Needs check.

maictalarry
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24162
Link pimp

chiballs
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24164
Link pimp

pernecony
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24165
Another link pimp

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:27 am

Do any real people use hotmail, I wonder? It seems to be the email of choice for bots lately... more so than gmail.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:09 am

**

thittyidelerty
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24315
Looks innocent, but needs a closer look.
Logged on for 2 min.
No hits at all on Google or SFS. Zilch information in profile (looks like a place holder)

enalsesoxusew
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=24316
Link pimp

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 6:50 am

Smivs looks up from his armchair, thinks somebody must have left the gates open last night - 30 plus 'new members' to exterminate - He gets the mop and bucket ready to clear up the blood/ichor/haemolymph...

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:43 am

I think, perhaps, a hose might be more appropriate ...

58 spambots made it through to registration since around 2 a.m. - most between 6 and 7 a.m. GMT, and most (over 50) were practically identical, and came from just half a dozen IP addresses, now blocked. Man, some spammer is desperate to shift a lot of knockoff handbags ... one can only assume that if he doesn't, the Triad will take his thumbs. To which I say, "Why stop there?"

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:51 am

Disembodied wrote:
58 spambots made it through to registration since around 2 a.m.

Just one of those nights, eh? They waited 'til after I'd logged-off for the night too - sweet!

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:03 am

Cody wrote:
Just one of those nights, eh? They waited 'til after I'd logged-off for the night too - sweet!

Yup - it was obviously all from the same bot: all arriving within ten or twenty minutes, all from one very close spread of IPs, and every one of them had tried to start a new thread, each titled something along the lines of "[insert name of designer label] randomletter-randomnumber". Most of the profiles also carried links to some site pimping the same label.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:31 am

Disembodied wrote:
... it was obviously all from the same bot: all arriving within ten or twenty minutes, all from one very close spread of IPs, and every one of them had tried to start a new thread...

Must be something about it being summer solstice - I just had a small batch like that.

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:45 pm

Aye, something's stirring in the spamosphere today! I just took a trawl of the top 20 IPs from SFS and barred them: they're all rotten with bots. Maybe that'll plug up the gushers for now ...

Oolite Bulletins

Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam

Re: Reporting spam