:bowrofl:

Fixed, lol

And they're back...

Yeah... Jeezus...

Seriously i want to help guys! I know it doesn't do much good but Can you temporary lift the 60 sec between posts rule?

They deleted the last wave, lol

Yeah, AK was supposed to get on and change the setup ... not sure what happened

Yea I just saw that, Wtf they just keep coming here. Doesn't make sense, the stuff they post don't make any sense either, what's the point?

Thanks mods for deleting stuff before I can even report it, you guys are awesome

Well thats going to end once we go to bed

You guys never sleep, lol
And worse comes to worse, pass it to me, I never sleep

Talk to the man. Trips and I are just janitors.

I want to be janitor ! Heck I'll settle for hallway monitor if you just let me have the ban stick =)

Incoming spam! Take cover! Defensive positions!

Temporarily disable new member registration? Looks like the spam bots are infiltrating forums. Script kitteh!

Example:
http://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/s4-...l#post16641536

I wholeheartedly support the use of drone strikes on spammers. You'd only have to blow up one or two to make an example.

It is bad again today.

Lets capture some and water board em for information on how they infiltrated.

also Captcha's aint doing ****! AK check out http://areyouahuman.com/ for better captcha's :tup:

this is getting stoopid....

Real bad this morning..

Might be time to freeze new membership for a little while until some way to stop them is found.

Stupid spam.

I found and flagged 6-7 this AM. Chuck33079 beat me to a bunch of 'em. :)

Wheee! was on point this morning. He got there first most times.

I have noticed something that might help if you have GREP available to search - the Location and Drives fields all start with 5 LC alpha chars and end with 5 numeric chars. Edit3: Always 10 chars for username, Location, and Drives. Edit4: Not _always_. Also found username "George103". Edit5: Found a few other usernames with less than 10 chars. Loc and Drvs = "aaaaannnnn" seems to be consistent.

Edit: Acccckkkk! They just keep coming. The 60 secs between reports is getting tedious and really slows things down (yeah, it's probably a good thing during "normal" operations but still a PITA for occasions such as this).

Edit2: BTW, I haven't been leaving a post saying I flagged posts. Would just have to go back later and delete. If I should be making an I-flagged-this post, please let me know.

This is already worse than yesterday.

+1 on the time limit on reporting posts getting lifted temporarily.

Somebody's got to do something about this. Fo realz.

If they are using just a few IPs or the IPs are in a range, they can be blocked. If the forum software won't do it, htaccess will.

I was a member of a site that had a group of users that could hide posts. The posts weren't deleted, just flagged as hidden so they didn't display until a full mod took a look at it. An over-zealous member of the group couldn't do much harm; if the post was improperly flagged, the mod just unflagged it and it reappeared. Our group was scattered around the globe so we usually had 24/7 monitoring. I have no idea how it was implemented but it worked very well.

Sat there drinking my coffee swearing under my breath, clicking like a madman with 30 windows open....

I'm not sure what kind of practical joke this is, but this is all randomly generated. I saw one of the random links appears to link to some page on this site. The rest are random sites. I tried running VirusTotal to scan some of the URLs, and it didn't find anything.

For what it is, it could be a human member on this site running a utility to infiltrate the new member registration and spew out random threads on every subforum with random junk. Z h8r troll? :rolleyes:

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/745635584/hA59C52BC/

Then they should recieve the death penalty.

Thanks for the patience guys. The spam accounts are EXISTING account that signed up before. I haven't let a single new member in my forum in 72+ hours. These accounts are from prior sign ups.

I tend to see this happen each year. No specific time or anything. Massive spam activity, then followed a quiet whole year. Last year it happened too. So I am guessing it's that time. I'm going to change some registration verification question now. I'll change report post time interval to a smaller number. Please continue to report these posts and last but not least, big :tup: :tup: for trips and frost cleaning these threads up and keeping The370z clean :tiphat::hello:

I am going to change it but it only affects registration from this point on. All these spammers are from the past that are already member. I have not let anyone in last 3-4 days. ( I already had new members on moderation queue "on")

Must be a my350z member that hates 370z! :ugh2:

Morning guys, I've removed all the latest spam thats been reported.

I please suggest NOT quote the spam post But simply just report it

That makes the cleanup much easier after the fact.

AK is aware of the issue as I presume is working on a fix to stop these bots


Again THANKS to everyone especially Chuck :tiphat:

Not a problem. Been stuck on web based compliance training all day, so it was good to have something productive to do.

Can we not implement a rule that all new members first posts have to be moderated before they can be seen?....

Sooo... any way to get rid of that stupid 60sec reporting timer? I would have went Reporting crazy if it werent for that...

There has been a lot of everything:

• Annoying scammer/telemarketer phone calls to my personal and work phone, and I think they spoof the phone number using VOIP services. Half the time the number appears local, but it really isn't.
• Tons of spam passing through the filters using random spoofed sender domains affecting G-Mail and work e-mail. IT at my workplace are working hard trying to filter this stuff out.
• Heck, even news reports of local scams with someone hanging notes on doors with an urgent message to call some number.
• Chaos in this world...

Lots of work for the human moderators. NSXPrime has a system setup such that new members must answer a math question, and sometimes it's beyond 5th grade level.

There's a fairly prolific one running wild right now. Mods!

Start deleting derelict usernames....