Spam Everywhere

Muhammad said:
Actually we can just deleted all of the accounts with .vn e-mail addresses; they're all spammers.
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Thursday morning 5.35 there are 18 members signed in 10 are spammers and 8 have already been banned and this is every day. The problem is we can ban members but we can't delete them from the forum so there still on the membership list and can sign in when ever they like. Deleted all of the accounts with .vn e-mail addresses; they're all spammers and that's fine but that's only a small percentage, what about all the others. You have at least one third of the membership here that are spammers, you have a number of members registered as many as two to six different times. The thing is one spammer breeds more spammers and it's only getting worse daily and it's to the point of the forum being flooded with spammers.
 
Ric said:
Thursday morning 5.35 there are 18 members signed in 10 are spammers and 8 have already been banned and this is every day. The problem is we can ban members but we can't delete them from the forum so there still on the membership list and can sign in when ever they like. Deleted all of the accounts with .vn e-mail addresses; they're all spammers and that's fine but that's only a small percentage, what about all the others. You have at least one third of the membership here that are spammers, you have a number of members registered as many as two to six different times. The thing is one spammer breeds more spammers and it's only getting worse daily and it's to the point of the forum being flooded with spammers.
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Riddle me this, if the spam accounts are banned, how are they able to log/sign in? Why can't you delete them permanently? You need to make it to the point where they can't come back to datamine this place day after day. The scorched earth policy wins in the end and its going to take a year to get there.

You need to ban the following countries: Vietnam, Bangledesh, India, China & Pakistan. VN to save LMF from going over the edge and the other 4 countries for spite.

LMF in its current state is probably 6-12 months from teetering over the edge to becoming a full-blown spam site. There will come a point in time all you can do is pull the plug, honeypot the current forum and start over.

Right now just to keep up, you need someone that all they do is go through every single new account as they join. Check every IP and if its in the least bit questionable, ban it. Every email address. If the email belongs to a good IP but the email address has been reported as spam, ban because the email address is most likely stolen. Check usernames. Cross verify usernames with the email address. There are programs out there that collect email addresses per username. Background checks on everything. Ban/Report/Ban/Report. 24/7
 
buzzzmeister said:
Riddle me this, if the spam accounts are banned, how are they able to log/sign in? Why can't you delete them permanently? You need to make it to the point where they can't come back to datamine this place day after day. The scorched earth policy wins in the end and its going to take a year to get there.

You need to ban the following countries: Vietnam, Bangledesh, India, China & Pakistan. VN to save LMF from going over the edge and the other 4 countries for spite.

LMF in its current state is probably 6-12 months from teetering over the edge to becoming a full-blown spam site. There will come a point in time all you can do is pull the plug, honeypot the current forum and start over.
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That was the point I was trying to make, we ban them but we can't remove them because we don't have access to the admin panel to remove them so they can sign in because there still on the member list. I agree with all of what you say, that was the reason I said or posted what I did because I feel like something needs to be done soon or like you say 6-12 months it's going to be a full blown spam site.
 
Ric said:
That was the point I was trying to make, we ban them but we can't remove them because we don't have access to the admin panel to remove them so they can sign in because there still on the member list. I agree with all of what you say, that was the reason I said or posted what I did because I feel like something needs to be done soon or like you say 6-12 months it's going to be a full blown spam site.
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Yep, you can't not have a forum site with open registration and not give moderation access to the administrative panel. Mods need to have access to the membership information before any spaminating can happen. I've always said that Administrators that withold that info from the modsquad only have their forum to stroke their ego.

What forum software is this, vB 3.8.something? I could give you the work-around to get into the Administrative panel. :cool:
 
buzzzmeister said:
Yep, you can't not have a forum site with open registration and not give moderation access to the administrative panel. Mods need to have access to the membership information before any spaminating can happen. I've always said that Administrators that withold that info from the modsquad only have their forum to stroke their ego.

What forum software is this, vB 3.8.something? I could give you the work-around to get into the Administrative panel. :cool:
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It's Powered by vBulletin Version 4.2.0 and no I'm not going the work around way.
 
I just came back to the computer a few minutes ago and counted 14 spammers in the currently active member listing. This IMO should not be happening. :frown:
 
Ric said:
I guess that's my point they have been banned and there still there and it's just breeding more.
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And you can tell they are related because they all start with the same letter...today it's 'h' (and similar names)! :confused2:

huongdienabc2, huongdienabc3, huongdienabc4, huongnb11, huongnb12,
 
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