Be Gone Acursed Spammers

[Archangel]

Fellow Forum Members,
Please do not repost Spam content you receive, as when other members read your post it promotes the spammer's agenda, I would ask you also not to open any thread posted to by a spammer until the administrators have deleted the spammer's entry. Well how do I know it's a spammer? If you open 1 post and the spammers used I D is the last poster, and several other posts have him as a last poster, just figure, those posts have been spammed too. Please do not post over them as it then becomes difficult for the Admins. to know what threads have been contaminated with ruthless, dastardly, low life spam. AND NEVER POST YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS ONLINE, Unless you like getting spammed.

[Darrel Taylor]

... have been contaminated with ruthless, dastardly, low life spam.

I usually have a few different words about SPAM. But I guess those will do.

I'd also like to say that the "Report Post" button, is EXTREMELY welcome for reporting abusive posts. (Really, please).

But SPAM is removed as we see it, so please don't "Report" it unless it's been there more than 24hrs.

That function also sends an email to Lester.
I'm sure he doesn't need to be bothered with such matters.

Thank You!

[Darrel Taylor]

OK everyone, I think we're in for a "bumpy" ride.

The "LOW LIFE's" have released their latest version of the vBulletin forum spammer.

They will start out as "Bump it up" posts.
But they will accelerate to full on "NASTY SPAM".

Please be carefull what you Click On.

These programs have been developed to circumvent the latest forum registration pages. They can read those pictures, that you have to type the corresponding letters. You know, the ones that take a normal person 4 or 5 times to get right.

It will take an update to vBulletin before it goes away.

P.S. ... Don't reply to them. (Please). It only makes them harder to find and delete.

Regards,

[Pic_User]

Hi Darrel,

Just do your best with the tools you have to work with.
You guys have done a great job so far.
We can put up with any infiltration from the dastardly Acursed Spammers, till the tools catch up with the invaders.

-Adam-

[skimask]

Those SpamBots are really cooking this morning aren't they?

[Melanie]

I've deleted 11 posts and over 2 dozen new registrations - that's just in the last six hours today...

[T.Jackson]

OK everyone, I think we're in for a "bumpy" ride.

It will take an update to vBulletin before it goes away.

If those updates cost money, I'm very suspicious about who is behind it. Nobody in this world does anything without reason. I'm having trouble swallowing the notion of "Cyberpunks" (bunch of immature twits looking for attention) -- being responsible.

Think about it, just how informed would these people need to be in order to do what they're doing? They're professional programmers with, at very least, inside information relating to the system.

Trent Jackson

[T.Jackson]

Writing character recognition software for all those pictures would be a tedious, time-consuming exercise.

*Skills required to do that?

- Application programming
- Subclassing
- DIB knowledge
- Mathematics expert

*Who could have done this?

- Cyberpunk
- vBulletin

*Why would they do this?

- For profit
- Attention
- Immaturity
- Insanity

That's the best analysis / argument I can come up with at the moment.

Hope it helps you solve the problem.

Trent Jackson

[skimask]

If those updates cost money, I'm very suspicious about who is behind it.

And the Apollo missions were faked too...

[mackrackit]

And the Apollo missions were faked too...

Really?
They must have been because I could not do it with my skill level.