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Weird Spam Posts

PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
edited March 2016 in The Commons

I'm assuming that these weird things are some kind of spam. The OP just joined a few minutes before the posts were made. Daz? An explanation, please? I'm just curious.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,687

    It was spam

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,565

    Those are Korean and Daz should, and probably is, blocking the IP addresses. They probably keep changing them.

  • KhoryKhory Posts: 3,854

    They spam Daz ever day at least once and often more than once a day. The mods spend a shocking amount of time looking out for and removing it.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,407

    What fascinates me to an extent - I was on two nights ago, and there were over 100 new threads from at least 4 userids of this stuff - and every one of them had 3 or 4 views.

    I also opened a ticket with a couple of suggestions to cut back on the amount, although I don't know how practical they'd be.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,223

    The 3 or 4 views are often users opening the message to "flag" it as SPAM.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    1.  99.9% of the time those things are NOT people.  They are bots.

    2.  IP blocking is worthless...they switch IPs faster than you change a newborn's diapers.

    3.  That's what is getting through a ton filters/blocking methods and other protections (Cloudflare is good for something...and controlling that IS one of its strong points).

    4. Manual catching and removing the stuff that does get through is about the only way to handle it.

     

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256
    edited March 2016
    mjc1016 said:

     

    4. Manual catching and removing the stuff that does get through is about the only way to handle it.

    Well a filter that stops anything with Korean characters in the subject line might do. No one else posts here in Korean language anyway...

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  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 12,473

    The thing that helps us is if someone sends in a report.  We don't need a report per spam.  Once we get a report, we can see all the spam and we can delete multiples under one account in one fell swoop.  :)

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256

    WellI guess you have seen the latest one, or?

  • 3dLux3dLux Posts: 1,231

    Flagged it and gone, for now yes

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256
    edited March 2016

    Funny there was only one post in 1½ hours. But maybe the mods deleted the account after the first post and just forgot to delete the post?

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    There were actually about 14 or 15 attempts to spam last night,  that was a quiet night.  One night Cris dealt with about 50 different attempts.  With only 6 of us on the team it is difficult sometimes to manage a complete 24 hour coverage, but we do get pretty close to it.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212

    I see them most around 08:00 here in the UK. I am wondering if it is a school/college/university course where they have to set up an account on a forum and then post. I have seen this before and the forum admin had to email the college in question and ask them to stop, which they did, and they said they didn't realise it was disrupting the forum. The forum was one of the addresses on the curriculum notes. Some teachers surprise

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    More likely to be school kids earning their pocket money when school is out, linked in to a botnet.  They try all different times of the day. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    They are about obtaining (I'm assuming counterfeit from the bulk of the wording) assorted certificates, diplomas and important papers from various universities in the United States (I've on only seen U.S.).   I could be wrong, because most translation programs horribly mess up grammar, but it seemed like a very shady deal and most likely another spam scam aimed at naive students studying overseas or perhaps individuals hoping to be able to use fake credentials to fool people.

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,666

    It's one of these crazy internet things that I just don't understand. If you are going to spam an American site surely you should do it in English? Making it Korean means 1) it easily stands out as spam and 2) most people using the site won't understand a word of it! I don't see how anyone can earn anything by doing this.

    It reminds me of those spam e-mails I used to get which were just a random sequence of words with no meaning to them. They seem to have died out now, I could never see the point of them.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2016

    mebbe forum can block that ascii character set?

    :) remembers when filters blocked saltwater taffy - was a legit conversation.

     

    dohh just saw it, letters in the middle  lol

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,056
    Peter Wade said:

    It's one of these crazy internet things that I just don't understand. If you are going to spam an American site surely you should do it in English? Making it Korean means 1) it easily stands out as spam and 2) most people using the site won't understand a word of it! I don't see how anyone can earn anything by doing this.

    It reminds me of those spam e-mails I used to get which were just a random sequence of words with no meaning to them. They seem to have died out now, I could never see the point of them.

    It may not care about being understood, it may simply be hoping to push up its Google search rank for those searching for fake qualifications.

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,185
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Peter Wade said:

    It's one of these crazy internet things that I just don't understand. If you are going to spam an American site surely you should do it in English? Making it Korean means 1) it easily stands out as spam and 2) most people using the site won't understand a word of it! I don't see how anyone can earn anything by doing this.

    It reminds me of those spam e-mails I used to get which were just a random sequence of words with no meaning to them. They seem to have died out now, I could never see the point of them.

    It may not care about being understood, it may simply be hoping to push up its Google search rank for those searching for fake qualifications.


    Or just wants to annoy other people. :)

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Sometimes it almost seems as though it is playing with us.   Posts a set of posts under different names, then sits back for a while to lull us into a false sense of security,  then it starts again.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,723

    Probably affiliated with sites that pirate DAZ content and think they are showing DAZ how cool they are. It's hardly ever latin character sets that spam anymore so those filters must be good.

  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 772
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    Sorry, nope. That's not a valid excuse anymore since mods don't get paid--you're slaves, you know!cheeky

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    And here I thought they were Gen4 characters... You know, the latest figures, now with AI.

    A Genesis figure that creates it's own scenes.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,090
    nonesuch00 said:

    Probably affiliated with sites that pirate DAZ content and think they are showing DAZ how cool they are. It's hardly ever latin character sets that spam anymore so those filters must be good.

    Regardless of the source, they seem to come from minds with a very stretched sense of ethics. 

     

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    There were actually about 14 or 15 attempts to spam last night,  that was a quiet night.  One night Cris dealt with about 50 different attempts.  With only 6 of us on the team it is difficult sometimes to manage a complete 24 hour coverage, but we do get pretty close to it.

    OK, wasn't aware that there was such an amount of spam, sometimes there's weeks between I see any and I'm here almost daily so I guess you're doing a pretty good job then...

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,407
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    There were actually about 14 or 15 attempts to spam last night,  that was a quiet night.  One night Cris dealt with about 50 different attempts.  With only 6 of us on the team it is difficult sometimes to manage a complete 24 hour coverage, but we do get pretty close to it.

    OK, wasn't aware that there was such an amount of spam, sometimes there's weeks between I see any and I'm here almost daily so I guess you're doing a pretty good job then...

    I think the worst I've seen was last week, about 3:00 AM EST, 1:00 AM DAZ time - I did a 'recent posts' search - and the first three pages (90+ entries) had one each non-spam topic, so quite close to 90 spam entries. And I quit looking at page 3. Its got to be like playing whack-a-mole with a very large playing field.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256
    namffuak said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    There were actually about 14 or 15 attempts to spam last night,  that was a quiet night.  One night Cris dealt with about 50 different attempts.  With only 6 of us on the team it is difficult sometimes to manage a complete 24 hour coverage, but we do get pretty close to it.

    OK, wasn't aware that there was such an amount of spam, sometimes there's weeks between I see any and I'm here almost daily so I guess you're doing a pretty good job then...

    I think the worst I've seen was last week, about 3:00 AM EST, 1:00 AM DAZ time - I did a 'recent posts' search - and the first three pages (90+ entries) had one each non-spam topic, so quite close to 90 spam entries. And I quit looking at page 3. Its got to be like playing whack-a-mole with a very large playing field.

    Don't think I've ever seen more than 20-25, and only a couple of times.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    namffuak said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    You have to remember that, no matter what you think, Mods are actually human so there are times when they need to take a break for stupid things like eating, or sleeping or even simply visiting the bathroom.

    There were actually about 14 or 15 attempts to spam last night,  that was a quiet night.  One night Cris dealt with about 50 different attempts.  With only 6 of us on the team it is difficult sometimes to manage a complete 24 hour coverage, but we do get pretty close to it.

    OK, wasn't aware that there was such an amount of spam, sometimes there's weeks between I see any and I'm here almost daily so I guess you're doing a pretty good job then...

    I think the worst I've seen was last week, about 3:00 AM EST, 1:00 AM DAZ time - I did a 'recent posts' search - and the first three pages (90+ entries) had one each non-spam topic, so quite close to 90 spam entries. And I quit looking at page 3. Its got to be like playing whack-a-mole with a very large playing field.

    And if that's the night I was thinking of, they were mass uploading, so those posts weren't a lot between them in time.   Luckily Daz have given us a magic button, as Cris said

    Cris Palomino said:

    The thing that helps us is if someone sends in a report.  We don't need a report per spam.  Once we get a report, we can see all the spam and we can delete multiples under one account in one fell swoop.  :)

     

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,603

    It's the first night that I've seen these posts.

    All sites get spamming problems from time-to-time. It's been a while since I've seen anything like this though.

    I haven't checked out any of the spam posts, just in case of viruses. With those titles, they do look pretty... suspicious.

     

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,256
    devilsatdusk15 said:

    All sites get spamming problems from time-to-time. It's been a while since I've seen anything like this though.

    If it's bots, a good captcha should keep them out.

     

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