Nailing Spammers

Those same spammers like to re-join and post in he middle of the night. Persistant little buggers. I would have thought they would have given up by now and left. I unfortunatey let this continue for so long that they've made this their prime spamming site. However, it's not over yet. For the time being late at night, I will disable the forum from allowing "brand new" members from posting. So anyone who joins late at night when we're sleeping will not be able to post. Their proxy servers can do nothing about it and they will be confused as to what's happening, and will give up.

We're getting rid of these guys for good.    

You got it FluMom.  

That's a good solution, and we can do that.  Might be the next step now that the names are deleted and they have to re-reg.  Good plan. 

Sounds like a plan!

Spammers.  Primitive little things.  

I've had quite a few late night spam posts in the last few days from the UK that I couldn't delete. Not a huge problem as someone else took them down pretty quickly.The time difference works to their advantage - early morning there is the middle of the night here.

Had a ton today.  Have you guys seen an increase over here?

I had to remove the i.p's that were banned as someone banned my i.p.  

No IPs on a lot of them, and no way to delete them, but their location was showing up as the UK. It was the usual spam - rolex, gold, cialis, etc.

Ya, probably by mistake lol.  It happens.  Of course there's no way to ban admin like with all forum software, at least not with this one.  I even accidentally banned my own i.p several years ago, so these things happen.  The problem is that some i.p's are used by many different people, and blocking common i.p's can result in a lot of potential members being blocked by mistake.  Plus, with these spammer, they're using proxy servers to blocking their i.p wont work.

I have to sort through the mod functions/users and should have it all fixed by Monday.    

Oh, i can assure you we've ruffled some feathers, and it will continue.  Until I feel we're getting the truth - don't plan on the ruffling to end anytime soon.  Someone has to keep things in line and expose the truth at all costs as the stakes are very high in this situation, and AFT will continue on this plight. 

Like I've said, this site goes far beyond just tracking and posting news I'm afraid.      

Just deleted more spam (mod functions seem to be working again, Albert), and checked the IP using the geobytes link TG provided. Beijing again despite their profile saying the UK. 

No worries turbo.  Like i said, once banned myself back in 05. 

The mod functions are fixed.  Please gang, anytime those UK spammers show up, deactivate them and delete the posts as quickly as possible - regardless of the hour of the night - if possible.

Many thanks,

Albert

Will do!

Well that figures.   We're probably not a very popolar site among a few out there right now. Oh well, we'll just delete them faster.

http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=29177&SID=1ccazc82bzcf24c3125ff581e8522192 Albert, another one with no mod functions. Can you please take it down? Thanks!

http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=29173 No mod functions here either. Can't get rid of these spam posts.

Finland on Swineflu.org still has no mod function. 

A little after 10pm and we have six people trying to register as new users - all using Windows XP and IE 6, all with IPs showing them as being in Beijing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the internet in China is pretty heavily restricted, so would an average citizen even be able to get on to AFT? I'm guessing it would prove to be difficult, if not impossible. So how are we getting so many spam messages originating from Beijing and who's giving them the green light? Seems that someone's decided to try and devalue our stock by flooding us with spam about prom dresses, watches, ED medications, and anything else they can think of to dilute the info we're sharing here. 

Bear in mind young guns, without proof and I.p posted, and where it goes, nada and pure speculation. Although the spam problem here rivals the worst ever seen on a forum, so I doubt it. Any proof and we really have fun.

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    Posted: Today at 6:44pm - IP: 174.139.126.10 Says they are from the UK but they are in the United States, Ohio

I used up all my free IP address checks on geobyte.com last night (they have a "reasonable use limit" apparently) on unregistered guests, and lo and behold, I found about a third of them were in Beijing. Seems we're attracting an awful lot of attention in China.