The SPAM spammers lately

[mtrycrafts]

Sorry guys. We are doing our best to clean them. I just banned 12 using the same IPs so hopefully that cleared out a few.

Love it. That 12 from different posters on the same IP or same poster at 12 places posting.

 

[NINaudio]

In the last 4 hours or so, there have been 60 new spam messages from multiple new accounts.

Can you please remove the time limit for reporting accounts? Is that something that can be done.

 

[Tankini]

Why can they so easily create id's/memberships let alone myriad posts?

 

[Teetertotter?]

Unfortunately I'm afraid it's too late.. These people are in and nothing is going to get them out.. There highly automated, and will send out
page after page at a click of a button. In some cases it's completely automated, once they have programmed to selected forums. Thinking you can somehow block there IP addresses, , is a waste of your time, It's been reported elsewhere that they have hundreds of active IP's simply waiting to be used.
It's a bit like trying to beat "Wack a Mole"
I know of one forum [the subject is unimportant ] where they shut down the site for 6 months , and when they reactivated it they where back to
where they were before the shutdown. The site no longer exists
Try loading TEMO into a search engine, The selling site is massive, https://www.SPAM.com/a
In short the ships already sailed, and nothings going to bring it back

Thank you for your Insight on this issue. I'm sure @gene has been pulling his hair out, doing bis best. Somethings are not always that easy on situations likes this. What degree of expertise, does one have to rid spammers? Like hackers, they continue to persist, until job is complete, for continual !@#$%^&*()_? Mayhem. Thanks Gene for all that you do, and whatever assistance you can get. WE are all hanging in there.

 

[gene]

Sorry guys. I added a rule for new users to have to be registered for 5 days before posting but I can't find any setting that states how many replies a new user has to have before starting a new thread. We may have to put a better CAPTCHA.

 

[DigitalDawn]

I still think membership via an AV question would be a great way to go.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Thank you for your Insight on this issue. I'm sure @gene has been pulling his hair out, doing bis best.

Don't remember, does he have any left to pull?

 

[mtrycrafts]

I still think membership via an AV question would be a great way to go.

Maybe part of that CAPTCHA?

 

[NINaudio]

Sorry guys. I added a rule for new users to have to be registered for 5 days before posting but I can't find any setting that states how many replies a new user has to have before starting a new thread. We may have to put a better CAPTCHA.

This rule isn't working. There have been a handful of spammers who have joined and posted minutes later in the past few days.

 

[gene]

I just increased the post count to 10 on new users. Let's see if that helps.

 

[NINaudio]

Nope, latest spammer joined ~20 minutes ago and made 5 spam posts within minutes of joining.

 

[mono-bloc]

Just wait until they invade existing established threads, And going by reports it will happen.

It's a bit late now, trying to restrict membership, You should have done that weeks ago, when the first invasion started
Once these people are in,, there in and all your fancy programs won't mean jack

 

[highfigh]

I just increased the post count to 10 on new users. Let's see if that helps.

How many 'Click on all boxes that show a bicycle' screens are required to join? Some of the forums I join have at least five. It's a pain, but those forums don't have much spam and definitely not as much as we have here.

 

[Cos]

It almost seems like a targeted attack. Time to bring in IT Support!

 

[Verdinut]

@gene
Have you had a look at Cloudflare Turnstile which is an alternative SPAM protection?

I have a credit card with Capital One bank and this is what they use on their website when you log in.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Turnstile can be embedded into any website without sending traffic through Cloudflare and works without showing visitors a CAPTCHA.

developers.cloudflare.com

 

[gene]

@gene
Have you had a look at Cloudflare Turnstile which is an alternative SPAM protection?

I have a credit card with Capital One bank and this is what they use on their website when you log in.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Turnstile can be embedded into any website without sending traffic through Cloudflare and works without showing visitors a CAPTCHA.

developers.cloudflare.com

We use cloudflare for the main site and just enabled it on the forum a few days ago. Let's see if that helps

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Looks like it helped a lot. Thx, Gene, for addressing it as it was very annoying.

 

[gene]

Looks like it helped a lot. Thx, Gene, for addressing it as it was very annoying.

I'm really glad to hear that. I was right there playing whack a mole with our mods and trying a poop-ton of stuff to fix this problem. Hopefully we keep em out for good.