Forum Spammers

Ypip

Type 3: The Classic Spammer

The classic spammer will be easy to spot and is the forum spammer that most are already familiar with. Typically, the classic spammer goes to a forum, registers, posts an unsolicited ad for a product(s), quite often not even targeted to the forum he is posting (often electronics, prescription drugs, gambling or adult websites), and will provide either a link or some hotmail/yahoo/gmail email address to reach them in the post or the signature of the post.

Simonthepilgrim

How kind of a grandson to instruct in the sucking of eggs.

Ypip

It was Buckley's cough syrup at the time.

Floating_Abu

Ypip wrote: »

Type 3: The Classic Spammer

The classic spammer will be easy to spot and is the forum spammer that most are already familiar with. Typically, the classic spammer goes to a forum, registers, posts an unsolicited ad for a product(s), quite often not even targeted to the forum he is posting (often electronics, prescription drugs, gambling or adult websites), and will provide either a link or some hotmail/yahoo/gmail email address to reach them in the post or the signature of the post.

Thanks Ypip _/\_

Linc

I ban 2-5 spammers a day before they can even post by monitoring forum registrations and cross-checking their IP address with their country of origin, checking their username for patterns and comparing it to their email address, and checking their forum profile and signature for links. I then ban them AND their IP address to prevent repeat offenders from the same Internet connection.

Even if they manage to post, there's a spam filter in place that catches more than half of what slips past me, which means it's only visible to staff for moderation. If you actually see a spam post, it's the 1% that made it through all of that (and that's AFTER they've already beaten all the registration tricks).

Spammers: 7
Lincoln: 1,328 (or something like that )

[action=Lincoln]returns to his perch high above the city, keeping watch :ninja:[/action]