reporting spam in PMs

[knite0]

Uhh, are you supposed to report advertisers here?

 

[Paka]

I got one from matrix12 right after I signed up. Is there a way to disable PMs for users below a certain post count on this format? That might solve a lot of it.

Funny thing is then, the spammers are probably spamming each other as they sign up.

 

[The Pi]

Funny thing is then, the spammers are probably spamming each other as they sign up.

Never thought about it that way before

 

[c_house]

MY GOD!!! I hate spam. I'll defiantly report if an a$$hole spams me.

EDIT-- By the way... does spam have any thing to do with a certain meat in a can?

 

[tk_saturn]

Funny thing is then, the spammers are probably spamming each other as they sign up.

Not really, it's one person behind it.


QUOTE(c_house @ Jul 16 2010, 08:37 PM) MY GOD!!! I hate SPAM. I'll defiantly report if an a$$hole spams me.

EDIT-- By the way... does spam have any thing to do with a certain meat in a can?

Google Monty Python.

 

[Paka]

Another option to slow this person down then is to disable links for members below a certain post count. (Which will be annoying for some new members who want to post legit links of course, but does solve problems) I know spammers are a nightmare...

There is an NFL forum I'm supposed to be the admin for since the owner went away, but I gave up on approving new memberships (spammers were so bad he set memberships where they had to be manually approved) because the sheer number of obvious spam accounts is insane. You also get a lot of "silent spammers" who just want to get on the member list so the website they put in their profile will be picked up by search engines.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Got one from FF7__Cloud. I forwarded it to WildWon. Thank you staff for working fairly quickly.

I also got a PM from FF7_Cloud.
He's banned now so I doubt it really matters.

 

[tk_saturn]

Another option to slow this person down then is to disable links for members below a certain post count.

That's not going to solve this.

They are using hacked accounts, they will simply use acounts with higher post counts.

 

[Paka]

Yipes, sounds like a real tricky one then.

It is definitely a concern if this person is hacking accounts. There is one other trick I can think of, but not sure if it would work in this case since the problem is with PMs (admins/mods, PM me for details if curious, would ruin it if posted and seen). Anyways, wish the admins best of luck, great site here, sorry to see them causing problems.

 

[YayMii]

I'd like it if there was a "Report as spam" button on PMs.

 

[evandixon]

I'd like it if there was a "Report as spam" button on PMs.

I think in another forum I've been to (I'm pretty sure it was SMF, if not, the real, un-edited version of IP Board) had a report to administrator button in PMs.

 

[RupeeClock]

Anyone else got a spam PM from leopardproof, asking to promote a site selling video games and chinese electronics?

 

[jceggbert5]

Anyone else got a spam PM from leopardproof, asking to promote a site selling video games and chinese electronics?

No, but I did get one from Teelow...

Spoiler: The PM

QUOTEMessage Forwarded From Teelow

Hi, this is my website I recently made: http://www.r4idscards.com
You can get the Lowest Price R4 DS cards, R4 DSi cards, M3 real cards, Supercards, DSTT/DSTTi cards, Acekard and Cyclods cards from here, hope you like it!!!
Great site,isn't it! I appreciate that you can forward it to one or two of your friends!



And you can also have more choices on NDS flash carts. All latest R4/R4i, DSTT/DSTTi, M3, Supercards, Acekard are available now with Dreaming Price here.
O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O O(?_?)O

 

[RupeeClock]

Aren't you doing the spammer's job by posting his spam message?

 

[redact]

Anyone else got a spam PM from leopardproof, asking to promote a site selling video games and chinese electronics?

i didn't get that but i got an email from him with the same contents by the sounds of it
he also tried to friend me on msn and this forum :x

Spoiler

[titleix]

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(actual spam has been cropped out to stop him from getting free advertising from this post)

and i also got a pm spam ad from teelow...

 

[jceggbert5]

Aren't you doing the spammer's job by posting his spam message?

No, I'm quoting it to see if anyone's getting the same message from that member or other members...

 

[redact]

Aren't you doing the spammer's job by posting his spam message?

No, I'm quoting it to see if anyone's getting the same message from that member or other members...

you could have at least removed the hyperlink...

 

[tk_saturn]

This is a list of most the websites owned by NCS, who are behind the spamming:

Spoiler

aigostyle.com
eurotiffany.co.uk
fashioniphone.com
ghdkiss.org
ghdstraighteneruks.com
iphone3gszone.com
mbtshoesale.org
mbtstore.co.uk
medicalequipmentstore.co.uk
myafclothing.com
I'm a poopy head.com
ndscardstore.com
newerahatsale.com
redblackshoes.com
r4fords.co.uk
r4idscards.com
thomasabo.co.uk
volumerates.com
tryon-online.com

All of those need substituting.

Why hasn't r4idscards.com been blocked? it's the website they are linking to and advertising in all the PM's. I forwarded mine to mthr on July 13th, with that address in...

This one also looks interesting liujingyue.com as they haven't hid the whois record.

edit: I found another bunch run by the same people,

Spoiler

christianshoesuk.com
coolinks.co.uk
ghdhairsales.co.uk
ghdsale.com.au
jewelryespanol.com
linkscraft.co.uk
linksjewellery.co.uk
linkslife.co.uk
linkslondonjewelry.com
mytiffanyjewellery.com
myuggonsale.com
newtiffanystore.com
pandora4sale.com
snowugg.co.uk
tiffany-store.co.uk
tiffanycojewel.com
tiffanydesigner.co.uk
tiffanyforsale.co.uk
tiffanyline.org
tiffanymall.org
tiffanysilvers.org
tiffanystore.org
timberlandbootsale.com
timberlandbootsuk.com
ugg2all.co.uk
uggbootsdiscounter.com
uggbootslove.com
uggclassic.co.uk
uggsbootsky.com
uggshoesonsale.com
uggwinter.co.uk
ukghdsales.com
ukghdstore.co.uk

andreamjewel.com
bootsuk.org
nbajerseyshop.org
thesexylingerie.co.uk
uggsboot.de
uggsbootuk.org
uggshort.org
uggstall.org
uggukstore.org
pass4sure-demo.com

again all the same type of shitty sites. Most sell fake products/ have fake Mcafee logos on their website and have scammed people. I seriously hate those kind of sites.

Google any of them, and you see they frequently spam forums/ blogs. NCS is one serious company to avoid, bunch of tossers. It seems they are professional spammers.

 

[_Chaz_]

From: leopardproof

Joined: July 20, 2010 10:11 PM

Date: July 20, 2010

Time: 10:46 PM

Title: do you have interest to promote my site?

Message:

Dear friend,

I got to know that you are the old member in this forum. We have a site dealing with video games and other china electronics. We'd like to invite you to help promote our products and even our site.Pls if you have interest, you can join our affiliate programme to get commission.

Could you pls add my msn: [email protected] to discuss on line?

Best regards,

Achilles

Additional Notes:
Before this message, he had added me as a friend. This was most likely to gain my trust. This bot is interesting.

 

[tk_saturn]

The user trioffer (Risky2008) needs to be banned, website is trioffer.com which will need to be substitued along with [email protected]/ [email protected]/ [email protected].

 

[worlok375]

Teelow tried to advertise his r4idscards.com site in a PM to me.
LukeFonFabre asked me to give him a romsite that only gives out clean roms.