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There's some twat called Effective Promo sending spam messages via the pm system. Probably best for one of the moderators to delete him.
 
Quick response!!

Hmmm, I only log in now and again but I see from the request for Mods thread that spammers may not be too uncommon. B******s.
 
While they do not seem to post spam etc...regularly see "new members" sign up every day that are spammers...but for some reason most don't actually get through to post?
 
Gareth!!!

No user found in the listings, nothing showing up in the console panel either? Regsieterd under another name and spamming in a different one?
 
I think we should think about bringing in a system whereby a moderator has to approve a new member. Thoughts?
 
Andrew Hurley said:
I think we should think about bringing in a system whereby a moderator has to approve a new member. Thoughts?
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It exists already. Gareth has to authorize all new members. You will routinely see Spam Bots registering at the foot of your page. They usually have incomprehensible names accompanied with a number after them and a mixture of upper and lower cases. They appear as members, hence why some of out 'most ever members on line' equate to strange times of the day and days of the week. They also have IP addresses eminating from Russia and China. Although regsitered members, they can only post once Gareth permits them to. Occasionally one gets through, but we are routinely hit with dozens on a daily basis. Every night or so Garteh just deletes the lot.
 
I just deleted Effective Promo (and 20 other spam accounts that had signed up in the last 10 hours or so).

All new accounts currently have to confirm their email account and be ok'd by me before they can post. However, Effective Promo hadn't even confirmed his email account, so I'm going to go looking now for the setting that's allowing non-confirmed accounts to send PMs...
 
A breach!!!

The long and short of it Mark is that I don't really have the IT skills beyond simply doing the basics. I can ban a named user if they're registered and I can find them, if they know of a cleverer way of by passing a system, then for the most part I'll be rendered useless as they'll have no trouble out witting me on such technical issues.:D

As good fortune seems to have dictated, we had a lot of people logged in at the time.
 
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Good stuff Gareth and Warbler. Guess that is something TRF dont do (as in delete down the membership). Clearly the spammers do not get through there but they are left up as registered members.
 
I think I've sorted it - if anyone else has the same thing happen to them please let me know as soon as...
 
I take it your in receipt of Tout Seuls copy Gareth? Even I can work out the significance of it, can we guard against it?
 
The spammer would have sent the same copy to multiple recipients at the same time. Hopefully I've blocked it off now but I'll test a few things out tomorrow to make sure.
 
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