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Re: Reporting spam

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
I noticed you'd banned gmail.org (http://whois.domaintools.com/gmail.org) and hotmail.org - is that the entire domain? Is hotmail.org not a genuine M$ one? (or is it that we're getting a flood of spammers coming from it and therefore genuine or not it has to go?)
Hotmail.org is real, but it’s just a web redirect. There is no DNS MX record. We had about a dozen nonsense-name accounts associated with it.
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Another one making me twitch ...

pgvw: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=4882

again, no firm evidence, but googling "Viewing profile - pgvw" (no quotes) does throw up some nasty stuff in some of the site summaries. It might just be an unfortunate coincidence though: "pgvw" seems to be young-person-type text-speakery for "pageview". In MY day, we used vowels.
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Well yes, one doesn't want to alienate the youth (for they are the future) but they make it so difficult sometimes to identify themselves as human.

Kind of like a reverse Turing test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

Ghevat test? Maybe? Where the human tried to respond in a way, a badly programmed computer would?
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Ghevat test?
Took me five minutes to work that one out. :roll:
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CroscoliDroto: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=4699

No queries here – it's an out-and-out link farmer that's just decloaked.
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Thanks D... that one had been using hotmail.org until recently. It's IP is now banned.
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Disembodied wrote:
Another one making me twitch ...

pgvw: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=4882

again, no firm evidence, but googling "Viewing profile - pgvw" (no quotes) does throw up some nasty stuff in some of the site summaries. It might just be an unfortunate coincidence though: "pgvw" seems to be young-person-type text-speakery for "pageview". In MY day, we used vowels.
This one came online when I was around before - at that time IP and email were OK on SFS - will check back later - just in case...
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That one's on my watch list.
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wommureaumutt - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=4994

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icexaccog - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=4997

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As a moderator I noticed there was a payload from a spammer waiting to be approved when I logged on this morning - I'm presuming only Moderators can see these posts?
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
As a moderator I noticed there was a payload from a spammer waiting to be approved when I logged on this morning - I'm presuming only Moderators can see these posts?
Yep!
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Good - the system will work then - as it shows up for me as an unread post when I click on the "view unread posts" link
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profile https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5047

Yixstfbthcgca


worth watching....dodgy looking website
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To the posting of spam there is no end! :x

engiliaLape https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5067

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Ahbopkgdxa https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5095

Another porn spammer.
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