Bob or Buzz, have you seen an unusual number of goofy registrations on RWA lately? The maintenance of pruning these bozos is getting on my nerves.
Rash of spambots
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Rash of spambots
by Bananarama » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:45 pm
I’m seeing a rash of spammer/spambot registration over at my forum, easy to spot once they’ve submitted their info, but hard to stop, as it seems they can get around my challenge question (now changed).
Bob or Buzz, have you seen an unusual number of goofy registrations on RWA lately? The maintenance of pruning these bozos is getting on my nerves.
Bob or Buzz, have you seen an unusual number of goofy registrations on RWA lately? The maintenance of pruning these bozos is getting on my nerves.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by DrewG » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:33 pm
Funny. Don't know if it's related or not but I've had 5 fake Facebook accounts add me I'm the past couple days.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by artimrj » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:37 pm
I whacked 2 of them last week. One was a bout the life as a hara chrisnah and all the beliefs. Another was selling plates. The N3V forum had 7 last week. From porn to pots&pans. I guess they are getting smarter.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by hminky » Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:50 am
Guess they have nothing to do until the 2018 elections.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by NYWhiskey » Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:44 pm
hminky wrote:Guess they have nothing to do until the 2018 elections.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by buzz456 » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:14 pm
Were two of them Boris and Natasha? I heard they were heavily involved in the last election.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by PNWR1854 » Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:04 pm
buzz456 wrote:Were two of them Boris and Natasha? I heard they were heavily involved in the last election.
Several went thru the anti-bot detector on my website for my youtube channel. They then contacted me and whenever I would open the message, it would redirect me to the "Critical alert from microsoft" page.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by JOHNtheREDNECK » Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:24 am
Why do spam-bots need to invade train simulator forums of all things? I would think they would just keep hunting down mainstream social media where all the money and click-bait is at. 
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Re: Rash of spambots
by Chacal » Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:46 am
Mainstream social media apps have better protection against bots.
Hundreds of thousands of forums are relying on old or shoddy forum software and have little staff monitoring them.
They still reach tens of millions of users, so they are a juicy target.
Hundreds of thousands of forums are relying on old or shoddy forum software and have little staff monitoring them.
They still reach tens of millions of users, so they are a juicy target.
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Re: Rash of spambots
by Ericmopar » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:32 pm
And that's why I had my stuff removed.
Because of unequal rule enforcement.
Politics aren't supposedly allowed on this forum. Clearly they are...
Because of unequal rule enforcement.
Politics aren't supposedly allowed on this forum. Clearly they are...
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Re: Rash of spambots
by buzz456 » Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:13 am
I think when humor is involved a little light touch is allowed.
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