Spam written in Swahili.

alistair

10 years ago

I don't think they're bothered about anyone reading it, they just want the backlinks. Probably automated software.

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Kay King 10 years ago

The spammers have been hitting hard - and it seems to take longer to get the spam removed this week.
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- Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  The spammers have been hitting hard - and it seems to take longer to get the spam removed this week.
  
  It takes longer to get rid of it because there is a lot more to get rid of and the same number of people trying to get rid of it.
  
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HeySal

10 years ago

We've been getting bombed by it the last 24 hours. I've been wondering if something was changed with the new ownership that is allowing it in easier or if maybe the publicity has attracted the pondscum.

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

I know! Every time I log on, there is new spam crap! I don't have much time to spend here and don't want to spend my time reporting all of it anymore.

Terra

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HeySal

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

I know! Every time I log on, there is new spam crap! I don't have much time to spend here and don't want to spend my time reporting all of it anymore.

Terra

Right? I've reported more spam today than I've ever seen in here before and can't report it all because they want one minute between posts. I wonder if whatever is going on is why the forum was down the first time I tried to get in today. Wonder if the main forum is getting hit, too. Think I'll go up and browse.

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MikeTucker

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

I know! Every time I log on, there is new spam crap! I don't have much time to spend here and don't want to spend my time reporting all of it anymore.

Terra

Yeah, I saw this coming.
Perhaps I should have said something about it in the "psychic" thread,
then everyone would finally know my powers are real?

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bizgrower 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeTucker

Yeah, I saw this coming.
Perhaps I should have said something about it in the "psychic" thread,
then everyone would finally know my powers are real?

Mike,

How did Claude post under your profile?

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- MikeTucker 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bizgrower
  
  Mike,
  
  How did Claude post under your profile?
  
  Dan
  
  We are Psychic Buddies. Yes, that's the technical term.
  Anyway, our powers include being able to travel through the Astral Plane
  when we link our minds, so I was able to post under his profile.
  
  It doesn't last very long though, so it was just that one comment.
  And this one.
  
  --Claude
  
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  MissTerraK 10 years ago
  
  Hurray! There has been a stay on all the annoying spamvertising!
  
  Hopefully it's not a temporary stay!
  
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HeySal

10 years ago

This is out of hand. We have 1/3 of the forum up in spambots. I have no idea what's going on but I'm out of here until they clean up this problem. It's beyond what I'm going to fight with.

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Frank Donovan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

This is out of hand. We have 1/3 of the forum up in spambots. I have no idea what's going on but I'm out of here until they clean up this problem. It's beyond what I'm going to fight with.

Originally Posted by MikeTucker

And I as well, this is ridiculous.

Paul just posted this in a thread in the main section:

The extra surge of spam you're seeing now appears to be due to the previously working spam filters being somehow disconnected. I'm not sure what happened, but I suspect it has to do with changes to the structure as part of the sale. If so, it'll be temporary, and the minor inconvenience will be worth the upgrades.

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seasoned

10 years ago

I have ONE bit of advice I tried once on a site I had for a time, and it worked like a charm. I added a field to the URL, and checked for it in the program. If the field wasn't there, the data wasn't accepted.

It would be transparent to a human, but still work for most programs. Inputting data through the screen, for a computer is just IDIOTIC! I have only seen ONE program that did such a thing, and it was a FARSE! COMPLICATED, SLOW, ETC.... So MOST software does it via a standard get/post operation, and that means parsing the form, which is rarely done, outside of scraping for content of course, or just assuming.

ANOTHER thing that could be done is checking the title content and ensuring that it has say at least 3 latin characters that constitute at least 70% of the title. That usually wouldn't work, but today it would have cleared out nearly every piece of spam I have seen. AGAIN, it would be transparent to any legitimate visitor. I mean even the chinese guys on this system write their posts in English. and french, spanish, german, etc... use latin characters ALSO.

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Kurt

10 years ago

My Swahili is definitely lacking, but I could make out a few words: "clawed", "urea", "itch", "sad" and "disgusting"...

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Richard Van 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

My Swahili is definitely lacking, but I could make out a few words: "clawed", "urea", "itch", "sad" and "disgusting"...

You are right Kurt. I'm not entirely certain about the Swahili either.

Nice to know that in the end they weren't humans after all, just bottoms and soon, when the new stuff gets done, all the bottoms will be blocked and the spam will be wiped up.
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HeySal

10 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, Frank. I missed that post. When you've got new ownership it's hard to tell whether something's going to be an ongoing problem or what. I just ducked out for the afternoon and checked back just now and it looks like the problem is solved. Kewl. I didn't know where we were all gonna go to that would put up with us if this place wrenched out on us.

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whateverpedia

10 years ago

Uh, oh. Looks like they're back again.

A common theme seems to be the "member" claiming to be from a country that has no relationship to the language their "posts" are in.

The other night someone/something claiming to be from Australia was posting in Cyrillic (Russian). Tonight's mob are claiming to be from African nations (Malawi, Mali and Somalia so far), yet their "posts" are in Japanese (or maybe Korean?).

What they're trying to achieve is beyond my level of comprehension.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

It's the mysterious case of the hieroglyphic bandits.

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Kay King 10 years ago

Various languages - but seems to be all in the OT form today???
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- sbucciarel Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  Various languages - but seems to be all in the OT form today???
  
  Not all. There's a lot of it that they bury in threads by bumping old and new threads with it. It's not all topic starters.
  
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alistair

10 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Uh, oh. Looks like they're back again.

A common theme seems to be the "member" claiming to be from a country that has no relationship to the language their "posts" are in.

The other night someone/something claiming to be from Australia was posting in Cyrillic (Russian). Tonight's mob are claiming to be from African nations (Malawi, Mali and Somalia so far), yet their "posts" are in Japanese (or maybe Korean?).

What they're trying to achieve is beyond my level of comprehension.

They're probably building tiered links to a third tier or something. Apparently it isn't too much of a worry that they send thousands and thousands of links to these sites because it's not their money sites so doesn't really matter if they end up getting penalised. I haven't clicked any of the links or anything in their posts to look but they're probably like third or second tier links.

Personally I find this kind of backlink building a waste of time, but maybe not for them. I'm no expert or anything but basically it's probably a software like GSA ranker or something where it'll go out and find site after site where it can go and register with fake profiles, fill in captures, confirm any confirmation emails then go and post or whatever. These software will automatically generate usernames, passwords, etc, and you fill in the fields with spun content for articles, comments, profiles etc and then blast away at all the different platforms available. It's probably mass posting through a VPS using proxies or something. It's not about the quality or relevancy, they just build as many links as possible.

Of course it might not be that at all.

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sbucciarel

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by alistair

Apparently it isn't too much of a worry that they send thousands and thousands of links to these sites because it's not their money sites so doesn't really matter if they end up getting penalised. I haven't clicked any of the links or anything in their posts to look but they're probably like third or second tier links.

Yeah, it's bots. WF has had numerous bot attacks of this proportion. Do you have a filter fix on the way? With the one minute delay before reporting, some of us who are reporting are spending a bit of time on this.

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Kay King 10 years ago

These are so obvious I've stopped reporting them.

Edit: It's not just the garbled language stuff- big increase in the multi-paragraph spam stuff, too. I've just reported a couple of those - but it's a losing battle right now.
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- MissTerraK 10 years ago
  
  Yikes!
  
  We've been invaded to the nth degree. I'm not wading through all of that crap to try and have a normal (or not so normal, lol!) conversation.
  
  Anyway, I'm out for a while.
  
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  whateverpedia 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MissTerraK
  
  Anyway, I'm out for a while. Terra
  
  Sounds like a good idea. I've just checked in and the entire first page (with one exception) is full of this crap, either new topics or old threads bumped up.
  
  The one exception, ironically, is this thread.
  
  I'll come back later.
  
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sbucciarel

Banned 10 years ago

Well, this is a first. Never seen an entire section of the WF taken over by spam in this way. In addition to the daily live stream spammers and general douchbag link spammers, we now have porn spammer, fashion spammers, pharma spammers joining the ranks in epic proportions.

lol.... although it's not really funny.

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MikeTucker

10 years ago

Nope, by the time I saw your post, it was under a SPAMbot post.
Isn't there a fee for joining the forum or something?

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MissTerraK 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeTucker

Nope, by the time I saw your post, it was under a SPAMbot post.
Isn't there a fee for joining the forum or something?

Uggh!

I saw that!

GRRRRRRR!

Hmmm, I'm not sure about that one.

Terra
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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Uh, oh. Looks like they're back again.

Yes, a certain part of the world wakes up and it begins anew.

Originally Posted by Kay King

Various languages - but seems to be all in the OT form today???

Not all, but the OT has definitely been getting hit the hardest.

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah, it's bots. WF has had numerous bot attacks of this proportion. Do you have a filter fix on the way? With the one minute delay before reporting, some of us who are reporting are spending a bit of time on this.

Suzanne, I think you're confusing alistair with Alaister. Alaister is the new admin, alistair is a regular member.

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Nope, by the time I saw your post, it was under a SPAMbot post.
Isn't there a fee for joining the forum or something?

That was done away with quite a while ago.

There used to be a filter in place that blocked most of this stuff. As the infrastructure was being upgraded that filter somehow was broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, we're all getting tired of this.

Folks, you don't have to report the new spam threads with the strange looking characters in the title. They stick out like a sore thumb and will be deleted. The only exception to that would be if you see one slipping to the bottom of the page you might want to report it as it could have been overlooked.

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Paul Myers

10 years ago

Suzanne,

There was a big backlog of it this morning. Doesn't take much overlap of sleep times for that to happen. And it's still coming in. A couple of us have been sitting on OT and deleting it as it pops up.

This stuff has been hammering at the gates every hour of every day for years. Scott had filters set up that blocked most of it, but they appear to have gotten borked with some of the changes that have been made.

This time around it happens to be OT. The sports spammers hit the PIPS section really hard for a while last year, the offline and mobile marketing sections have had their turns... Pretty much everywhere that gets much traffic has been hit in these odd "why there?" situations at some time or other.

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sbucciarel

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Suzanne,

There was a big backlog of it this morning. Doesn't take much overlap of sleep times for that to happen. And it's still coming in. A couple of us have been sitting on OT and deleting it as it pops up.

This stuff has been hammering at the gates every hour of every day for years. Scott had filters set up that blocked most of it, but they appear to have gotten borked with some of the changes that have been made.

This time around it happens to be OT. The sports spammers hit the PIPS section really hard for a while last year, the offline and mobile marketing sections have had their turns... Pretty much everywhere that gets much traffic has been hit in these odd "why there?" situations at some time or other.

Paul

I thought there might be a good filter on some of this. I used to report the fashion spammers constantly, but haven't seen much of that around until this round. Some of it doesn't look like fashion spamming to most, but there are some fashion words buried in some of that mess.

Haven't seen much of the sports spammers for awhile either. Ones I see nearly everyday is the live stream spammers now, along with the "regulars."

Yeah, just noticed that they're still here but being deleted rapidly.

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Kay King 10 years ago

We are Psychic Buddies. Yes, that's the technical term.

Psychic.....psycho

Alistair - Alaister

One of these things is not like the other.

Alistair - you could have some fun with this.
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sbucciarel

Banned 10 years ago

Well, after I saw the massive invasion of spambots, I felt a bit overwhelmed and it's a pretty day here so I went into town to get groceries and chicken feed.

I bought a milkshake and devoured that ... then a big strong coffee. Just got back, fortified with sugar and caffeine, ready to do battle once again, and

it's ... all ... gone. I just checked everywhere and there were only about 3 left.

Big hand for the moderators who were stuck with cleaning that mess up.

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MikeTucker

10 years ago

Moderators sleep?

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Paul Myers 10 years ago

Mike,

Moderators sleep?

Appearances and urban legends to the contrary, yes. They do.

The typical North American sub-species is believed to require 1.5 to 3 hours of sleep daily, at least one hour of which must be in a contiguous block.

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