I'll put out some feelers, but we need a hacker to respond in kind.......or kinder. I know some people in low places.....hehehe
Ecigssa spam alerts
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https://www.ecigssa.co.za/69-1.t60397/
this one is starting small, I think they are trying to slip by
this one is starting small, I think they are trying to slip by
Another one trying to sneak past it seems: https://www.ecigssa.co.za/99-1.t60436/
and another sneaky post https://www.ecigssa.co.za/69-2.t60439/
Nuked
They are at it early again I see
At it again... Spam hackers!!!!
Another Spam alert!
Thanks @Adephi and the rest of you for your alerts
The flies have been swatted
You are right, they were at it early this morning
Interrupting me with my calls to Malaysia and China for VapeCon
@Adephi - you are right they are bots - but what we think is that they are humans first that get on and sign up - then hand the account over to a bot of sorts to go wild.
Our sign up process I am told is now very hard for bots to get through
We are continually reviewing this - and just to let you know our spam blockers on the back end are blocking several sign ups each day (every time we remove spam, it learns more about IP addresses, so in theory should get better and better).
Lets see how it goes.
Apologies to everyone on the forum for this. We hope to resolve this soon...
Thanks @Adephi and the rest of you for your alerts
The flies have been swatted
You are right, they were at it early this morning
Interrupting me with my calls to Malaysia and China for VapeCon
@Adephi - you are right they are bots - but what we think is that they are humans first that get on and sign up - then hand the account over to a bot of sorts to go wild.
Our sign up process I am told is now very hard for bots to get through
We are continually reviewing this - and just to let you know our spam blockers on the back end are blocking several sign ups each day (every time we remove spam, it learns more about IP addresses, so in theory should get better and better).
Lets see how it goes.
Apologies to everyone on the forum for this. We hope to resolve this soon...
I don't know how the technical stuff works, but maybe prevent everybody in creating 2 threads within 60 seconds from eacother. Might slow the flies down a bit and maybe work against their protocols.
Investigations take time but hopefully a pattern emerges out of this.
To me this now starts to appear to be a botnet doing this with an human sign up.
From what I’ve read up, there are human “sweat factory” type operations that search internet for any forums and other social media platforms that they can infiltrate. These infiltrations are then sold on sites such as freelancer. Then the buyers bots take over.
Because of the low cost of purchasing these “infiltrations” they don’t really care whether the language is even understandable by the target (our forum).
These people are already dodgy to begin with. Some of the kak posted points to getting fake degrees etc.
Yeah you can get those on the Darknet. I was just reading up on botnets and the computers controlled are called zombies. Very interesting how they operate.
Seems it's a very common problem on forums.
New member who joined today
Die Filistyne is op ons!
Can we maybe start by blocking all posts containing any Mandarin/Japanese/Cantonese characters?
Thanks @Dela Rey Steyn
All sorted
Good idea to block posts with Chinese characters.
We will have to check if that is possible
All sorted
Good idea to block posts with Chinese characters.
We will have to check if that is possible
Spam alert again!
These guys are getting crafty!
These guys are getting crafty!
Thanks @Gadgetboy
You are right, they are getting crafty
They have been removed.
Our technical team installed something else yesterday that is supposed to help - but we are monitoring and tweaking...
Sorry for the inconvenience to all - we are working on it.
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