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  Apr 7 2009, 06:44 PM
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 PsychoGeneral Group: Administrators Posts: 20,578 Joined: 28-March 01 From: Silver Spring, MD Member No.: 1  |
Due to some recent abuse by spammers, I've disabled the PM system for all members until a 'fix' can be implemented or the abuse reports die down. I apologize for the inconvenience.
-------------------- Stormtrooper
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Apr 7 2009, 11:00 PM
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PsychoInfant Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 23-December 08 Member No.: 69,853 |
wow spammers kill my inner child.
You could use those pics to slow them down. Or only guys that have posted can PM. |
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Apr 7 2009, 11:27 PM
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PsychoInfant Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 16-March 09 From: California Member No.: 70,353 |
QUOTE (Stormtrooper @ Apr 7 2009, 05:44 PM)  Due to some recent abuse by spammers, I've disabled the PM system for all members until a 'fix' can be implemented or the abuse reports die down. I apologize for the inconvenience. Ahh, I'm guessing that would explain the PM without being able to claim. Ignore my e-mail then =) |
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Apr 8 2009, 12:02 AM
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PsychoInfant Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 25-February 07 Member No.: 65,496 |
I guess it was the same bot that sent those PM's like on other forums, where it sent you a link to a site that asks you to do image verification which in turn is used to register bots on other forums?
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Apr 8 2009, 04:16 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 6-October 08 Member No.: 69,360 |
what version IPB have you?
you can use this mod http://resources.invisionpower.com/index.p...mp;showfile=445 if you see this article and this is : Members which want use a PMs must have a any number of post on board. |
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Apr 8 2009, 04:21 AM
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 PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 20-September 05 From: Belgique Member No.: 43,174 |
QUOTE (Stormtrooper @ Apr 8 2009, 02:44 AM) Due to some recent abuse by spammers, I've disabled the PM system for all members until a 'fix' can be implemented or the abuse reports die down. I apologize for the inconvenience. Hello Storm, does that mean that the PM I've just been notified for is a spam and can be ignored?-------------------- ...Il faut aimer la vie et l'aimer meme si le temps est assassin et emporte avec lui le rire des enfant...
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Apr 8 2009, 08:07 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 14-January 07 Member No.: 64,529 |
I guess yes. I got 3 PM's in a short row, and i'm not that active here
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Apr 8 2009, 05:41 PM
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PsychoGeneral Group: Administrators Posts: 20,578 Joined: 28-March 01 From: Silver Spring, MD Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (Mousstach @ Apr 8 2009, 06:21 AM) Hello Storm, does that mean that the PM I've just been notified for is a spam and can be ignored? Correct. The user that did it was deleted as well. -------------------- Stormtrooper
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Apr 10 2009, 10:12 PM
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 PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 21-April 01 From: Miami, FL. Member No.: 147 |
okay cool .. please ignore the PM I just sent you
-------------------- :: WickedNET! ::
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Apr 10 2009, 11:39 PM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 17-October 05 From: USA Member No.: 44,464 |
I received another PM today. Just no email telling me I had a pm.
-------------------- There is nothing deadlier than a US Marine and his rifle.
A close second is a US Marine and his K-BAR. |
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Apr 11 2009, 01:50 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 14-January 07 Member No.: 64,529 |
2 new messages to me, again with a link to a russian website. Seem your fix (if you added one) did not fix it
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Apr 11 2009, 02:04 AM
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 PsychoInfant Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 4-March 05 From: va Member No.: 33,345 |
you cant really prevent someone from pming you except by denying free email accounts and putting up an image verification to prevent people from making a program to autoregister. The only problem with denying free email accounts is that most everyone has hotmail, gmail, yahoo accounts and so forth
and as for having only people who have posted allow to pm, that would just incite the people doing this to write programs that will spam the forums instead of pming people at random. --------------------  |
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Apr 11 2009, 02:19 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 6-October 08 Member No.: 69,360 |
storm use that plugin i give you
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Apr 11 2009, 03:42 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-January 09 Member No.: 70,006 |
muzrinkl is sending my all the time messages with links to porno sites xD
omg, its like there is no escape from porn in the internet |
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Apr 11 2009, 06:50 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 28,950 |
QUOTE (ToXedVirus @ Apr 11 2009, 04:42 AM) muzrinkl is sending my all the time messages with links to porno sites xD omg, its like there is no escape from porn in the internet Yeah I just logged on to say that this user is spamming: http://www.psychostats.com/forums/index.php?showuser=70478 and I got excited for a real message. God I'm such a geek. Happy Easter everyone. -------------------- Veterans Of America CS:Source www.voanet.com
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Apr 11 2009, 08:10 AM
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PsychoGeneral Group: Administrators Posts: 20,578 Joined: 28-March 01 From: Silver Spring, MD Member No.: 1 |
I tried re-enabling the PM system last night, and this morning I have another hundred replies in my email... sigh. According to the announcement from the IPB folks, its a new wave of spammers doing this and they believe a human is actually registering in order to get around the captcha and then a bot is let loose to spam all the members.
I've disabled PM's again, and have deleted the 2 user accounts that were spamming. I've also applied a patch that adds flood controls to the PM system. This won't solve the problem but will help lessen the impact of PM's so I can delete the offending accounts as needed. -------------------- Stormtrooper
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Apr 11 2009, 10:27 AM
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PsychoInfant Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 18-September 06 Member No.: 59,953 |
hahaah i thought muzrinkl was someone i played with before that found me here
 i got like 4 email notifications.
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Apr 11 2009, 06:11 PM
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 PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 24-May 07 From: NJ, USA Member No.: 66,363 |
Yes, I've gotten 3 messages from this "muzrinkl" person so far, email notices that I have private messages here.
Flood control >= 1 minute. Proxy login denial (no traceback no access). Disallow use of known crap email services for registration, like yahoo. |
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Apr 12 2009, 10:41 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 21-February 02 From: Wisconsin Member No.: 1,623 |
Handling a spammer like this is fairly easy.
Whatever adult sites he is spamming, means he is an advertiser for them. Any money he has possibly accumulated would be taken from him by the site he was spamming...ie violating TOS. Any retail adult site will not allow spamming of adult material to unqualified users, especially on non-adult sites. No way to verify users are 18 or even give notice of site being for users 18yrs or older. When dealing with spammers, simply send a copy of the email/pm or whatever they used to the email address listed on the domain, as well as the NOC for the provider. Owner of site doesn't want to be blackholed by provider. Laws can't help much, but hitting spammers in the wallet is a good thing. A lot of times you can't personally stop the spammers. By dealing with upstream provider and site owner, action is generally taken very quickly. |
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Apr 13 2009, 11:21 AM
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PsychoNewb Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 17-October 05 From: USA Member No.: 44,464 |
QUOTE (GameWarrior @ Apr 12 2009, 09:41 AM) Handling a spammer like this is fairly easy. Whatever adult sites he is spamming, means he is an advertiser for them. Any money he has possibly accumulated would be taken from him by the site he was spamming...ie violating TOS. Any retail adult site will not allow spamming of adult material to unqualified users, especially on non-adult sites. No way to verify users are 18 or even give notice of site being for users 18yrs or older. When dealing with spammers, simply send a copy of the email/pm or whatever they used to the email address listed on the domain, as well as the NOC for the provider. Owner of site doesn't want to be blackholed by provider. Laws can't help much, but hitting spammers in the wallet is a good thing. A lot of times you can't personally stop the spammers. By dealing with upstream provider and site owner, action is generally taken very quickly. Excellent advice. -------------------- There is nothing deadlier than a US Marine and his rifle.
A close second is a US Marine and his K-BAR. |
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