The new kind of Spam Bots - A real problem!

[celebrityfan]

This user is spamming the site with links to porn sites, and the like. I can't remove any of his that I've found because I'm not a mod in some areas. Can we ban this user?

Enceterjoha - different user is also posting same spams.

[TheMailman]

I logged on earlier this morning and every forum had a new post, I usually go through all the new posts but 40% of them were spam by the same users (24 posts). I deleted about 5 but they were in the forums I moderate.

Registration needs to be tighter

[celebrityfan]

If any mods who help out in a forum can delete these messages...

http://www.fanmail.biz/mboard/search.php?mode=results

Here's the link to the posts.

Thanks in advance.

[cernan]

There are still several topics in the feedback forum that have his spamming. It says that only an admin can delete posts, but I edited his posts so that they don't contain the inappropriate links. If someone could go through and delete them, that would be great. I moved a couple of his spam topics to the moderator forum and deleted them here. Admin or The Collector, I think that it may be necessary to ban his IP Address if his IP Address isn't being "shared" among other members.

[jdp3577]

I beleive these are new versions of the spambots that dont quit after 1 post, I deleted about 20 of them this morning

[TheMailman]

Well we've had over 50 today

At this rate, we will receive over 100 a week?

We can't keep doing this, it's getting ridiculous

[loveryan]

We agree.
Spam must stop

[nowandagain]

Since we don't control the spammers (or amount of spam they post) , all we can do at the moment is remain vigilant, delete and report spam threads/users as soon as they appear.

I guess there are some periods that are worser than others, so if we can all keep a look out for these threads and users (and take appropriate action), we should be OK.

nowandagain [rockon]

[TheMailman]

I agree but we can't keep doing this?

We'd be deleting more spam than taking care of everything else on the forums

[nowandagain]

Well, as much as we want the spam to stop - we don't control the spammers. So, we will just have to remain vigilant to prevent/remove any spam from being posted.

I think we're going through a bad patch of spam at the moment, but it should hopefully clear up sooner or later

It doesn't take too long to get on top of everything. The forums will be fine, despite these unauthorised posts . We will be able to handle it!!

nowandagain [rockon]