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Not the brightest of forum spammers

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by Agent000, Nov 4, 2009.

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    I just banned a link dropper from one of my forums who is not very bright. I not sure what gave them away, but:
    • their email address was
    • their username had SEO in it (and the forum had nothing to do with SEO)
    • Their IP address was in Pakistan
    • Their signature was for a plastic surgery site in the Philippines (nothing to do with the topic of the forum)
    • In their post in the introductions forum, they said they were from Canada
    People like that need to be removed from the gene pool.
     
    Agent000, Nov 4, 2009 IP
  2. Vekseid

    Vekseid Peon

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    I block hundreds of these each day. Many of them are actually driven by humans.
     
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  3. Agent000

    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    I too block lots of these seo kiddies from my network of forums everyday....it was just this one had to be the dumbest of the lot.
     
    Agent000, Nov 4, 2009 IP
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    host1plus Peon

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    But it takes OUR time, here is problem...
     
    host1plus, Nov 5, 2009 IP
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    Haha, I agree. I think then it would even clean up all the seo blogs out there that spam the search engines with junk results.
     
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  6. Agent000

    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    To make it even funnier, he turned up on my other 5 forums and I was able to ban him before he even posted a message -- that sure would have frustrated him (assuming it is a him!)
     
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    World Class Peon

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    The Poster might be hired from Pakistan.
     
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  8. Agent000

    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    "Poster" is not the right word. They are another of the low life bottom dwelling scumbag of a spammer who need to be removed from the gene pool. Hopefully their sperm count is as low a their IQ, as society can not afford to have people like that reproduce.
     
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  9. World Class

    World Class Peon

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    Have you ever dealt with the spam of Iphone & Cellphone sales thread with prices and email id below, Don't know what they are looking for, Only an email id.
     
    World Class, Nov 5, 2009 IP
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    theapparatus Peon

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    What's funnier is that 1) you haven't banned the class c of ip addresses the poster is coming from which allows the poster to continue and 2) you actually think any of the information you posted is unique and actually of interest or new to anyone who deals with this problem day after day. Depending on the software of your forums, there are antispam solutions that check against known bad ip addresses, emails and patterns.

    Take a looksee: http://www.stopforumspam.com
     
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  11. Agent000

    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    I did
    You found it interesting enough to reply to. I deal with 100's of these everyday. What amused me about this HUMAN spammer and what motivated me to share it was that they could not have done more to bring attention to themselves.
    I have a zillion antispam measures in place.
     
    Agent000, Nov 5, 2009 IP
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    #12
    nice
    so confusingh

    it takes time but as we have started this buissness we have to care of
     
    rajpk, Nov 8, 2009 IP