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MiG
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spam accounts

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http://forums.informaction.com/memberli ... le&u=60968

Received a spam PM from this user earlier this year, but apparently the account still exists, and part of his payload is still in his signature (presumably to boost his pagerank). Ditto for the latest registered user below, cfr his 'occupation' and ditto website:

http://forums.informaction.com/memberli ... le&u=79137

You may want to either downright ban/delete them, or strip their payloads and block those user fields.

PS. I've been using the StopForumSpam plugin for vBulletin for about four years and it's cut down bogus registrations to a minimum. As apparently a version for PHP bb exists, perhaps this would help reduce them here as well.

PPS. "PHP bb" without the space in the middle very strangely triggers a *posting* spam filter?
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Re: spam accounts

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The user was banned, as early as March 25, 2012.
Banned accounts do remain, though should be ineffectual.
His signature & whatnot should also be ineffective as bots are not able to view member profile data at all, so he (no one) gets anything out of links posted there.
As far as "others" posting similarly, yes that is an ongoing & growing situation.
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Re: spam accounts

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Firefox current version, and only two extensions, and one of them is NoScript :)
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No public spam posts, so could you please forward the spam PM to therube, Thrawn, Giorgio, and me, and whoever gets it first will ban them? Thanks.
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Re: spam accounts

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Tom T. wrote:
No public spam posts, so could you please forward the spam PM to therube, Thrawn, Giorgio, and me, and whoever gets it first will ban them? Thanks.
Spam PM confirmed. I guess you don't want us all to forward the PM so I'm leaving it up to the first reporter.
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Re: spam accounts

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Tom T. wrote:No public spam posts, so could you please forward the spam PM to therube, Thrawn, Giorgio, and me, and whoever gets it first will ban them? Thanks.
What am I chopped liver? :lol:
I have been banning like crazy.
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GµårÐïåñ wrote:
Tom T. wrote:No public spam posts, so could you please forward the spam PM to therube, Thrawn, Giorgio, and me, and whoever gets it first will ban them? Thanks.
What am I chopped liver? :lol:
I have been banning like crazy.
I know that you had some particular obligations recently -- still waiting to hear if the goals were achieved -- hadn't seen you around, and so didn't want you to be bothered with e-mail notification that anyone else of us could handle. Sorry for being overly solicitous. Certainly no offense intended, and when you get a chance, could you let me know through secure channels how that early February project worked out?


@ sonickydon
: No PM received here, and we don't know how soon the previous reporter will see the reply. So please feel free to forward -- including to GµårÐïåñ, of course. ;)
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Tom T. wrote:I know that you had some particular obligations recently -- still waiting to hear if the goals were achieved -- hadn't seen you around, and so didn't want you to be bothered with e-mail notification that anyone else of us could handle. Sorry for being overly solicitous. Certainly no offense intended, and when you get a chance, could you let me know through secure channels how that early February project worked out?
I know, I was just yanking your chain. I don't write much but if you look at the mod logs you see, I come by and assassinate a bunch of spam and leave. I am like a Ninja, you never see me but I am here :mrgreen:

@ sonickydon
: No PM received here, and we don't know how soon the previous reporter will see the reply. So please feel free to forward -- including to GµårÐïåñ, of course. ;)
I was only kidding with my good friend, but by all means, any mod or admin would be able to handle it for you. Tom just pointed to the most visible and active ones to ensure that your message doesn't end up with those who either hate PM or are no longer actively on the site.
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Re: spam accounts

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sonickydon wrote:
Tom T. wrote:
No public spam posts, so could you please forward the spam PM to therube, Thrawn, Giorgio, and me, and whoever gets it first will ban them? Thanks.
Spam PM confirmed. I guess you don't want us all to forward the PM so I'm leaving it up to the first reporter.
I reported the PM. Next time, I will do same, instead of posting here. :D

Sorry, I did not notice the report icon in the PM.

"I have been banning like crazy." Me too. Where I live, we get tons of spam hourly.

"chopped liver?" The Lightly Diced Liver group is where it's at.
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