Spammers everywhere

[mdh]

At a little before 4am, we're at our high water mark for spammers. Twelve are logged in right now, frantically trying to understand English well enough to know why they can't post anything about their Gucci, Nike and Rolex stuff at bargain basement prices. Who knows...one maybe even be able to get through.

I almost feel sorry for them.....not!

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah they've been on quite the rise over at our forums at speedguide.net
The usual handbags and sneakers, but quite a rise in the "google are mafia" ones from across the pond.

A few months ago we had a high rate of the dvd/mpeg ripping software spammers ...I tracked most of those ip blocks and banned those ranges.

Did you just implement a new reverse Turing?

[mdh]

Eh? Por que "reverse Turing"?

[YeOldeStonecat]

A test between computer and "new arrival" to validate if the "new arrival" is human.
CAPTCHA is an example.
Later iterations...just answer questions like how many months in a year.


Basically tests you put on your forum engine that new members have to pass in order to join the forums. Designed to cut down on the spam bots. But the spammers have already countered this, they hire cheap human labor to sit and sign up on forums..and a few weeks or a month later they let the bots loose with those credentials.

It's getting to be a pain.

[mdh]

I just sent you an email that you might find amusing. Sent to email used when you joined forum.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Back atcha!