colin carron Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Some spam seen in No Words forum. Usually it appears elsewhere as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I'm getting multiple spam threads added to Philosophy, via my 'watched forum' emails, but now that I look at the forum, I don't see any new. Does that mean the spam filter is catching them as they're added, but failing to snag the outgoing email notices? Or is your cleanup crew just very, fast at deleting them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Reported a couple myself, but they are still getting through - look at Digital Darkroom. Not complaining, just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I couldn't help but notice that there are dozens and dozens of rapidly appearing threads in Chinese in various forums, posted by a person/persons using numerous garbled user names. What's going on, since they are forcing interesting threads off the list of threads pages big time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Are they by any chance emanating from the same source as the recent phishing e-mails ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I don't know how to tell. I'm not very good at the inner workings of computers/internet/etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 all is deleted - looking at the nets again - Chinese characters should be caught. We may revert to requiring people to upload 5 original photos and be approved before they can do anything in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 ...We may revert to requiring people to upload 5 original photos and be approved before they can do anything in the forums. I only shoot film, and I don't have any way to post photos here. Will that mean I can't post here any more or read the forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 no, you have an aged account - so you'll be more than fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 no, you have an aged account - so you'll be more than fine Whew! What a relief. Oops, forgot to thank you for clearing out the Chinese posts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Its the Koreans again - didn't know Kim Jong Un had all that extra time on his hands in between testing missiles...PS. I only know because I input to translate.google.com :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 We may revert to requiring people to upload 5 original photos and be approved before they can do anything in the forums. Why was this practice stopped? What about some sort of CAPTCHA screen for the first several postings of a new account? We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 not sure - was done without my knowledge - finding out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 They're back! In Casual Conversations ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 ...AND in No Words again! Thursday 28th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Well done for slipping a real one in !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 ...and they are gone again from No Words. Well done on quick response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I took care of some of them just now. Those were in Chinese, selling fake college diplomas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaTango Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I took care of some of them just now. Those were in Chinese, selling fake college diplomas. Do they come with a transcript? :rolleyes: I am thinking about a short but lucrative career in medicine... 2 "I See Things..." The FotoFora Community Experience [Link] A new community for creative photographers. Come join us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Thanks and congratulations are due to the Moderators for sorting this out so quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Moderators are doing an incredible job and behind the scenes the dev guys are tightening up the Xenforo spam filters, between the two is about the best any site could ever do - unfortunately its a game of cat and mouse until we kill the mouse. Wait...we're the cat right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 One improvement we have in photo.net 2.0 is that we can delete all spam from the same account with a couple of clicks, instead of one post at a time before. They must have some kind of bot to post so many spam messages quickly. Each post is for diplomas for a different university. Chinese is my first language, although I speak English just as well now. I didn't look at the posts that carefully, but they seems to have fake diplomas for a lot of western universities in the UK, Australia as well as the US .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Most of the spam has been posted in the early morning US hours. I've been able to catch a lot of it because I'm in Europe right now, They assume nobody will see it until "work time" in the US. There's also historically been a lot of spam on weekends. It is getting zapped pretty quickly since the first crush a few days ago. 1 Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 It is getting zapped pretty quickly It sure is! In PoP this morning, it was gone between the time I got the email forum notice of a new thread and my looking at the forum shortly thereafter. Thank you both, ShunCheung and Spearhead (Jeff) — and all/any other mods. And GPalm for keeping us posted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Just deleted another round of spams. This time it was in Korean, which I cannot read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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