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[NoDakZ/28]

Originally Posted by 90503

I took a look a few days ago at the bottom of the screen where it lists current users...take a look at all the ridiculous user names...mostly spammers for pharmaceuticals...lol. There is always a bunch of obvious spammers, but when you click on their name, it denies access to see their profile or whatever. Hard to report them until they post something.
There are a bunch of them.

I get a kick out of the part where the forum welcomes new members...lol...usually its a spammer of some kind....lol..

Here's a few samples...lol...Hopefully the mods can nip them in the bud somehow

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I wonder how many have actually been booted, I have been reporting the last few days more than the last few weeks again.

[1JEWLDSSRS]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

First off, there are a number of us that look at the boards multiple times weekly… A “glance” won’t find all of the spam/bots… They are, in many cases, AI generated… and hit this and many other sites 24/7. I’m not a bot, I need sleep, and I spend time away from here pursuing other interests as well… my family first and foremost…

I feel your pain, and I apologize… I was a member like you before being selected to be a mod… and I have never once regretted taking the position… However, I read at a really rapid rate, and I can’t see all of the posts on all of the various sub-forums in ten minutes, much less ten seconds… I can’t view threads any faster than you do.

I will say though that once a Spammer/Bot member is reported, I can look at that “members” postings very quickly. I can look at it in their user page, “Posts or Threads started…” then I can batch select everything they have up and kill it all with a few clicks of the mouse, or taps of the iPad screen…

Neither I nor any moderator I know on any forum goes and looks at every sub-forum, or thread title looking for spammers. It would be horribly time consuming and frankly boring as hell. We are after all, on this board, volunteers and we have myriad interests. I could not care less about shiny new car show stuff, and some guys only care about that. You have specific interests that you peruse regularly as well I would guess. If you don’t report that which you see, you will see it again and again until we stumble across it or someone else reports it…

It can take from 30 seconds (with a bot with one post) to several minutes each to get a report, (via email), wait for report to load, go and review it, determine if it’s spam or just a link inserted by someone not really knowing what they’re doing… or go into their history and see what else they have posted, or threads they have started… Decide on a course of action… (Not all funny looking links are spam per se…) then if I just logged on, as I make selections about what to do, I have to re-enter my user password to verify who I am, again… and then write out a note or word about why they are banned… then click to ban them… At this point, I tend to look and ensure they are banned and the postings are gone, at least to you folks.. We still see many of them… we see them as deleted but they are still background visual “noise.” All of this equates to a lot of pages loading and time spent reading… stuff I don’t care a whit about, but I will deal with it for the sake of the forum…

All of us, save one or two Admins/Mods, are Camaro owners or enthusiasts first… With 200,000 members spread across three boards, it would be a full time job for many people just running through all of the forums, sub-forums, threads and posts looking for spam, spammers and or bots. I know it’s frustrating… but if members don’t help with reporting, how can we possibly keep up, against computer generated bots… It’s old software, and it’s limited… however what would be lost if we had to completely upgrade… Don’t hunt them, just report them if you happen to see them while browsing your areas of interest, and if an additional thread or post you see is by the same member, (thread titles often look identical and are easy to recognize) there is no need to report that member again… we will find them in their user profile of postings. Well most of the time we do… I make mistakes too…

I don’t like the advertisements any more than the next guy, and it makes running spam bots off even more time consuming… but it’s the way of the world today…

So please, I ask, if you see them in your browsing, take a moment to report them, click on the triangle to report, type spam, and leave the rest to us… that won’t take a “full minute,” unless the internet is really slow. Nothing else is needed…There is no need to chase their postings and report each one you find by the same “member.” We can do that part quickly-ish… and it saves us digging through dozens of emails to see if it’s just the same reported spammer multiple times.

I hope this helps… The reports help us all, members and moderators, and we really do appreciate them…

Thanks SSE, and to all your other moderators that do your best to keep our forums clean!! I, we really appreciate all you guys do. I am also aware that you guys have "lives" too, so I do MY best to help keep you guys aware of what's going on here. Thanks again for ALL you guys do for the forum. It's been a Godsend for a lot of us!!

[1JEWLDSSRS]

Originally Posted by 90503

I took a look a few days ago at the bottom of the screen where it lists current users...take a look at all the ridiculous user names...mostly spammers for pharmaceuticals...lol. There is always a bunch of obvious spammers, but when you click on their name, it denies access to see their profile or whatever. Hard to report them until they post something.
There are a bunch of them.

I get a kick out of the part where the forum welcomes new members...lol...usually its a spammer of some kind....lol..

Here's a few samples...lol...Hopefully the mods can nip them in the bud somehow

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Holy crap, I never paid attention to all that!! That's pretty wild...

[90503]

Here's an interesting one...

It looks like once upon a time it was a legitimate account. Prior to today the guy had no posts for about five years....Now it looks like it got hi-jacked...

Still Spam....Perhaps the bots are getting more resourceful....lol

https://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=625080

[90503]

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Poor web-site is getting hammered....lol...

[1JEWLDSSRS]

Man, that's just crazy!! I hope they can figure out a way for all these "bots" to be stopped... Just nuts...

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by 90503

Here's an interesting one...

It looks like once upon a time it was a legitimate account. Prior to today the guy had no posts for about five years....Now it looks like it got hi-jacked...

Still Spam....Perhaps the bots are getting more resourceful....lol

https://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=625080

I've actually asked Tran how he wants to handle these sneaky crackheads.... I've found several Spammers on accounts still legitimate, and that haven't posted in 3, 4, or 5 years.... Hacked maybe.... IDK.... Interesting is a good term...

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by 90503

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Poor web-site is getting hammered....lol...

Due to past events here on the site, even the mods can’t click on those names and handle it there, nor at the top under the members list…. However, you did give me an idea and I went and moderately quickly booted three of them… It’s relatively time consuming but each one is a win for us…. Small though it may be…

It requires accessing another website and doing a lookup there… Until I get an answer or have discussion about alternatives to handle these, I’ll do what I can… Thanks for the outside the box thinking…

[90503]

Another oddity is the spammers who do manage to post show a join date of the previous month, or several years being a member, yet that day is their first post.

I hope all these "new members" aren't just hibernating, then all hell breaking loose. The percentage of them showing as active members seems relentless and beyond prolific.

Good luck.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by 90503

Another oddity is the spammers who do manage to post show a join date of the previous month, or several years being a member, yet that day is their first post.

I hope all these "new members" aren't just hibernating, then all hell breaking loose. The percentage of them showing as active members seems relentless and beyond prolific.

Good luck.

So thanks for the idea…

PM on the way…

[90503]

Looks like another old legit account taken over by a spammer...

https://www.camaro6.com/forums/showt...3#post11421193

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by 90503

Looks like another old legit account taken over by a spammer...

https://www.camaro6.com/forums/showt...3#post11421193

Yeah, those will continue to be a problem, as there is nothing in their name that gives their intent away... I've axed close to 500 or so as I mentioned to you.... Trying to determine a faster way to do it....

[90503]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

Yeah, those will continue to be a problem, as there is nothing in their name that gives their intent away... I've axed close to 500 or so as I mentioned to you.... Trying to determine a faster way to do it....

This is quite a troubling development. If legitimate member's accounts are used to post spam, wouldn't that mean their passwords have been used in order to post? Or has the whole web-site and all it's members been compromised? I can see starting a new member account for spam purposes, but even those seem to have manipulated the join date.

The suspect new accounts seem to be all the ones whose profile cannot be viewed. Not all of them have obvious spam usernames.

Thank you and good luck with your efforts.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by 90503

This is quite a troubling development. If legitimate member's accounts are used to post spam, wouldn't that mean their passwords have been used in order to post? Or has the whole web-site and all it's members been compromised? I can see starting a new member account for spam purposes, but even those seem to have manipulated the join date.

The suspect new accounts seem to be all the ones whose profile cannot be viewed. Not all of them have obvious spam usernames.

Thank you and good luck with your efforts.

I forwarded your concern to higher ups.... Hopefully a response is forth coming....

I don't know how they are getting into these accounts, or if they are mimicking them somehow, but to this point, I haven't sen any utilizing any active accounts. I'll let you know what or if I find out anything....

And Thanks for your input...