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30 November 2012 #11
Joe Third Saab's a Charm
- Join Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
- Posts
- 48
- Saab(s)
- 2010 9-3SS 2.0T
Spam
It's a combination of human involvement and spamming software. There's usually a human registering for the sites, but the spam software takes over afterward to hit the sites with posts.
Google loves sites with a lot of links pointing back to them, and rewards those sites with better rankings. The point of forum spam is not to advertise to us as forum members, and it's not even necessary for the posts to make any sense. The point is to post a ton of links all over the Internet so that Google increases the page rank of the sites that are being linked to in the spam.
So you have disreputable companies hiring disreputable people to spam their links and get a quick boost in Google ranks.
Sent from my BlackBerry Bold 9900 using Tapatalk2010 9-3SS 2.0T AT (Sold)
2006 9-3SS Arc 5-speed (RIP)
2004 9-3SS Linear 5-speed (RIP)
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04 December 2012 #12
Frank Administrator
- Join Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Location
- USA - Netherlands
- Posts
- 7,901
- Saab(s)
- previous: 2006 9-3, 2001-06 9-5, 2011 9-4X
I added another spam database to the spam-o-matic settings and more keywords to filter in posts. Hopefully, that will catch more of them. I'll also change the random question when new users sign up.
Next step will be to put new users in newbie user group with very limited posting abilities in their first few posts on the forum (disallowing posting links etc.) but let's see if the recent changes will make an improvement.
I also found out the site that is used for this mod to check for known spammer IPs and email addresses has been experiencing some problems. If the mod can't link to the site, it will time out and forward the registrant to our registration system. They are working on fixing this.
Spam-O-Matic Tagged email - vhiphope462@gmail.com Unable to connect to StopForumSpam.com. This is probably due to some temporary problems on their website: Unable to check. User passed to vBulletin registration system per your settings at 'StopForumSpam:
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04 December 2012 #13
Renato Piereck Spreading the Saab virus
- Join Date
- 24 Jul 2011
- Location
- Ansbach, Germany
- Posts
- 1,520
- Saab(s)
- '00 9-5 Aero SC, 87 900i 8v
Spamtastic!!!
Now: '00 Saab 9-5 Aero Combi - '89 Peugeot 205 CTI - '91 Peugeot 309 GTI
Gone: '87 Saab 900i - '95 Saab 900 SE Turbo
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05 December 2012 #14
- Join Date
- 05 Aug 2010
- Location
- Melbourne Australia
- Posts
- 54
- Saab(s)
- 2002 9-3 Aero Nordic Stage 4; 1988 900 Aero (The Silver Sled)
His links are still in his profile at top right of his post (location and my saabs)… might wanna delete that too or just do a redirect to an even dodgier site from his. Fuggin spammers!
1988 900 Aero "The Silver Sled"
2002 9-3 Aero Nordic Custom Stage 4
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05 December 2012 #15
Frank Administrator
- Join Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Location
- USA - Netherlands
- Posts
- 7,901
- Saab(s)
- previous: 2006 9-3, 2001-06 9-5, 2011 9-4X
I installed another modification to block the spam bots preventing them to register. They usually fill out the registration form very quickly (under 10 seconds) so those attempts are being blocked. A regular person takes much longer than 15 seconds to fill out the form and click register.
A few minutes after this mod was installed, the first one was already blocked.
A registration was prevented by bot blocker; visitor information below.
Time Difference: 2 second(s)
Username: xerisy879
Email: ahheekua@hotmail.com
IP: 125.77.145.206
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1
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06 December 2012 #16
Joe Third Saab's a Charm
- Join Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
- Posts
- 48
- Saab(s)
- 2010 9-3SS 2.0T
On November 16th, one of my forums received 99 spam registrations. Another got 78. I pretty much had to block all Southeast Asian IPs on one site. Took me quite a while to sift through it all. Since then I have received less than a handful, and I have seen zero spam posts.
My trick? I use something like this as a question & answer:
Use an online translator to provide the English translation of this Hebrew word: מסעדה
Answers:
restaurant
refectory
dining room
cafe
cafeteria
diner
That's definitely one that they need to take the time to look up, if their browsers/spam software can even display the Hebrew text. And it has not affected my legitimate user registrations.2010 9-3SS 2.0T AT (Sold)
2006 9-3SS Arc 5-speed (RIP)
2004 9-3SS Linear 5-speed (RIP)
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10 January 2013 #17
Frank Administrator
- Join Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Location
- USA - Netherlands
- Posts
- 7,901
- Saab(s)
- previous: 2006 9-3, 2001-06 9-5, 2011 9-4X
I haven't seen any spam lately. Either the other moderators get to it before I see it or we won the fight so far.
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31 May 2013 #18
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- 31 May 2013
- Location
- Portland, OR
- Posts
- 12
- Saab(s)
- 9-3
that is hands down the weirdest spam I've ever seen. And they made the subject SPAM? lol