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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:08 am
by MrFlibble
A bot that seems to have picked random sentences from posts in the forum and used them as topic titles:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13445
All stuff Trash Heap'd.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:39 am
by Rwolf
The returning spambot 'jagdev02' definitely needs to be moved out.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13317
Status: Posts removed. Spammed domain added to spam list. Account banned.
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:59 am
by Rwolf
Another salesbot: 'NinaAnderso', multilingual posts, spanish link in profile.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13460
Status: Posts removed, account banned, spam words updated.
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:52 am
by MrFlibble
This bot has posted another thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13467
A while ago it already made one, which was trash heap'd. It also has links in profile.
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:46 pm
by Rwolf
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:40 am
by Rwolf
Another spambot: 'alsoft' adding random generic posts of nonsense praise, in this case as new postings. Common practice by some robots.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... hor=alsoft
Related spam-link in its profile.
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 2:33 pm
by MrFlibble
Both bots' posts were Trash Heap'd, thanks.
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:43 pm
by Rwolf
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:57 am
by Rwolf
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:41 pm
by Rwolf
More from the same Indonesian spammer; a new user with every post, containing identical text and web links. (the post titles are suggested for spam word filters)
spammer alter-ego user names:
qeyfarow
Crekiyox
demiera
rewasqiy
RWEWINS
REFANS
trevansxay
Trash Heap'd the stuff. Admins should take care of the rest ~ MrFlibble
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:35 am
by Rwolf
More spam from the same source and with same message as before:
Todays spam is brought to you by:
Frandesraw
Drewbinx
Cvlara
Trevansd
Hevonix
Rewanes
Revkandre
Androans
edit: I see the removal was swifter than my post, almost :-)
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:57 am
by MrFlibble
I'm thinking that maybe the CAPTCHA type used should be changed to a question. These bots seem to be getting better and better at bypassing countermeasures.
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:39 pm
by Rwolf
More spam from same source:
new user:
Hewaveqz25
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:41 am
by wardrich
Updated ban list to include RWOLF's last 3 posts' worth spammers.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:03 am
by MrFlibble
Can you please do something about that Indonesian spam? It seems like there are no less than 5 new spam posts from them every day now.
What about changing the CAPTCHA to a question? From my experience, it seems to be more effective than those "type in numbers from picture" countermeasures.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:52 am
by Rwolf
More Indonesian spam, likely from the same spammer.
The post headings, signatures and web links repeat in the profile.
new user names:
Sezkra,Vraxzz, Braygz, Praxzlo, Qzeqrox, Rexyz, Heqzax, Qrexzz, Kraylez, Zeqarex
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:29 am
by MrFlibble
I Trash Heap'd the posts, but is there any reason to list user names? I'm not sure about the version of phpBB here, but the latest versions will remove a username from the ban list if the respective account is deleted. IPs and emails will stay on the ban list regardless though.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:37 pm
by Rwolf
Well, I know you find the posts anyway, I'd just as well list the profile pages or whatever is appropriate.
In this case any listing could be redundant, as they are rather obvious.
edit: 12 new spams from the same source.
I won't list them, you know where they are.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:05 am
by MrFlibble
This spam nonsense is becoming increasingly annoying. Could the admins please do something like change the CAPTCHA type as I suggested above? This worked quite well for me in another forum.
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:44 am
by Rwolf
10 more spam today, likely from same source as before.
On another forum we had to vet new registered users before letting them post in public; there was some 40-50 spammers each day, looking valid on the surface, but the profiles were faked, stolen from hacked user databases & the post content was always spam. It kept up from august to november last year.