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Title: Spammer
Post by: snapper on 24 November 2013, 09:53:22 pm

we have a spammer on board   " Anyalikes"    :(

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: ChristoT on 24 November 2013, 10:07:25 pm

Quote from: snapper on 24 November 2013, 09:53:22 pm

we have a spammer on board   " Anyalikes"    :(

That thread has been taking a lot of spam out of nowhere all of a sudden. Not just Anyalikes either...

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: Aegis Bearing Mel on 24 November 2013, 10:17:32 pm

Apologies to the family of Harley, I tried to mod through tapatalk and I clicked the wrong twatting button so deleted the entire thread.
Sorry.

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: Farjo on 24 November 2013, 10:22:53 pm

Thanks to everyone who has reported the spam threads I think they're all gone now :thumbup

If you see any spam click that post's 'Report to moderator' link.

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: ChristoT on 24 November 2013, 10:41:02 pm

Quote from: Farjo on 24 November 2013, 10:22:53 pm

Thanks to everyone who has reported the spam threads I think they're all gone now :thumbup

If you see any spam click that post's 'Report to moderator' link.

Thank heavens! I was running out of varations on the word "spam"!  :lol :lol

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: Farjo on 25 November 2013, 01:18:31 pm

I've changed the sign-up question again (although it's an easy question it usually shuts spammers up for a while, presumably English not being their language) and have deleted a bunch of suspicious accounts opened in the past week. Hopefully there will be only a bit of spam to come and then all quiet until they work out what country Italians come from ;)

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: Farjo on 25 November 2013, 01:30:08 pm

ps Can you think of any more questions that are dead easy and that everyone (not necessarily British or well educated) will know?

So a question like "What year was the battle of Hastings?" may not mean anything to non-Brits. 'How many cylinders has the Fazer' is tricky because it could be 4 or four and the software only takes one 'correct' answer.

The question shouldn't need a Wikipedia lookup as it will put people off and is unnecessary - the previous question "Where does Yamaha come from" although simple kept the spammers away for a few months.

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: snapper on 25 November 2013, 02:09:55 pm

how about " are you a spammer ? " :pokefun :lol
so far today Ive had nearly 200 spam emails from DHL and Flix's  who the Feck is Flix's?
 

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: Farjo on 25 November 2013, 02:24:00 pm

Read the emails :lol

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: snapper on 25 November 2013, 05:36:44 pm

"Read the emails (http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif)"  not frickin likely !  :rollin

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: taylor on 25 November 2013, 06:21:22 pm

I am not that pc literate, how do you know it,s spam? or would my laptop just crash.

Title: Re: Spammer
Post by: snapper on 25 November 2013, 06:30:15 pm

Its the equiverlent of cold calls on your phone just trying to sell you something you dont want or need ! but with emails they can have files attached especailly Zip. files which once opened steal your data passwords and anything of interest
some have viruses built into them which will crash your comp as well
 
Spam normally comes from unknown email addresses but not always  so if in doubt delete