Why are those Funky Russian people allowed on this site?

rajron · Post by **rajron** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:57 pm

Any way to block them?

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:59 pm

Only a moderator can stop them, the site will continue to be spammed to death until a moderator or Eric comes on. Too bad there's no way to "vote" ban them from the site when no moderator/administrator is logged on.

rajron · Post by **rajron** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:02 pm

Yea;
Well I vote, even though it doesn’t count – get rid of them!

Post by **jmazza** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:11 pm

Unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated than that. We can ban a user and a spammer can make another user name. We can ban an IP address and a spammer can post from another IP address.

Spammers are hard to stop. But there are possibly some other tools Eric can use to slow them down. We did have a pretty big hit overnight/early this morning. I think it was something like 25 or so posts in a matter of a few hours. I know because I got to delete a decent number of them!!! But that's pretty rare.

We're working on it!! In the meantime, apparently the spammer has a great deal on some Russian SMS recovering system and if you're interested I can hook him/her up with your email address!!!

Cheshire · Post by **Cheshire** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:21 pm

Banning all the IP's from an entire country would prevent quite a few future scooter people from discovering something wonderful.

Besides, spammers take advantage of forums from any country's IP's. Banning russia wouldn't help.

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:48 am

How can you tell they are Russian?

BuddyRaton · Post by **BuddyRaton** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:57 am

By the dressing!

bigbropgo · Post by **bigbropgo** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:12 am

I couldn't sleep last night and logged on around 3am or so. They had posted five different times in the general discussion and once in all other sub forums. The thing is this stuff happens to all forums. I think this forum is very clean but there is only so much you can do. I just wish I knew what it said, no fun in another language.

rajron · Post by **rajron** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:47 am

This is a great forum; very rarely do spammers get very far along in the site – I was at a tender moment and just started to yip and snip out loud.
Thanx for the clean up.

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:25 am

We take 'em out quick as we can! I think most of us would rather put up with the occasional spam thread than have to enter in Captcha words every time we post. If you see spam, please don't reply to it; report it using the report button:

These things seem to come in waves—we'll go months with no spam—so it should die down soon. If not, I'll look into other prevention options.

I always ban their usernames and IP addresses—in fact, I ban a whole range of IPs. Unfortunately, the spammers have learned to spoof their IPs which seemingly come from different locations.

What's stupid (and how we know that they're Russian) is that the recent posts are in Cyrillic. Anyone here read Cyrillic Russian? No? Thought so.

At least we're not getting the hardcore p0rn posts. We had some really disturbing images posted here.

Portland_Rider · Post by **Portland_Rider** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:51 am

ericalm wrote:Anyone here read Cyrillic Russian?

Yes though not an expert.

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:44 am

Portland_Rider wrote:
ericalm wrote:Anyone here read Cyrillic Russian?
Yes though not an expert.

I doubt you'd have clicked on the links for this anyway.

Контроллер телефона с возможностью скачивать смс и журнал звонков.
Любой человек имеет возможность читать чужие смс и смотреть журнал звонков за последние 3 месяца, даже если их удалили с телефона.
Проверьте своего любимого или любимую. Как говорится - доверяй, но проверяй.

From Google translate:

Controller phone with the ability to download sms and call log.
Any person has the opportunity to read other people's SMS and call log to watch the last 3 months, even if they are removed from the phone.
Check your favorite or your favorite. As they say - trust but verify.

Anachronism · Post by **Anachronism** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:17 am

My guess is that they are google bombing. It doesn't matter that we cannot read the post, they are posting text associated with a link so that google ranks the website higher.

Makes more sense than simply spamming a website in a manner that 99% of us cannot read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

Quo Vadimus · Post by **Quo Vadimus** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:56 pm

ericalm wrote:I think most of us would rather put up with the occasional spam thread than have to enter in Captcha words every time we post.

YES! Thank you.

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:21 pm

I activated the the feature requiring new members to reply to email when they register to activate their accounts. We'll see if that helps. As is, they have to enter Captcha words to register… We can only hope they're using fake email addresses.

Tried tracing IPs to a single source—nope. They're all over the place. Crafty Russky spammers.

chloefpuff · Post by **chloefpuff** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:18 pm

Ha Ha! Thought that was cyrillic!

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:01 pm

Stormswift wrote:How can you tell they are Russian?

Because they spoke and typed in russian.

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:20 am

BuddyRaton wrote:By the dressing!

Well I liked it!!!

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:02 am

It is Russian now that I had a chance to see it. They are advertising/spamming some kind of a proggie or whatever that allows retrieval of information from cell phone (like spying on GF, or BF, etc). Spammers definitely. I asked how we knew they were Russians because I did not catch the original posts before they were removed. Pure spam. We are lucky we did not get "girly" adds.

rickko · Post by **rickko** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:55 pm

Как говорится - доверяй, но проверяй.

From Google translate:

... As they say - trust but verify.

Ha! They even use one of Reagan's famous quotes in their message. Now that's funny coming from a Russian.

..rickko..

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:55 pm

Actually the saying is very old, very , very common in Russia. It sounds better in Russian actually

.I suspect Reagan deliberately used translation of an old Russian saying to make a point.

jmkjr72 · Post by **jmkjr72** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:54 pm

one way to stop them is to change your security settings every now and then
all it takes is changing the captch numbers belive it or not some time making them weeker stops the spammers

ScooterTrash · Post by **ScooterTrash** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:29 am

rajron wrote:Why are those Funky Russian people allowed on this site?

I resent that

rajron · Post by **rajron** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:50 am

Oops; No offense to Russians; jus spammers.
I know that saying:
You can take the Russian out of KGB but you can’t take the KGB out of Russian.

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:25 am

ericalm wrote: We had some really disturbing images posted here.

yeah... but those were all in the scavenger hunt

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:46 am

ScootLemont wrote:
ericalm wrote: We had some really disturbing images posted here.
yeah... but those were all in the scavenger hunt

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