freebies scam: warning too all

john1975_2

Edna_Bucket wrote: »

The fact that the very first reaction you make to this is to describe the one person, Poppycat, who does more individually than anyone else to help keep MSE free of spammers and scamsters, as a "troublemaker" possibly says more about you than anyone else john?

i know what you trying to do and its not going to work on me go bully someone else i said my piece.

Poppycat

John having gone through your post early today and researching the whois register it was mighty suspicious that almost all the links you posted over many months all are owned by same person.

It is slightly plausible that you found them all from one site and repeated them here, however that raises question that perhaps that was foolhardy to so so, and that someone eventually will pick up on it.

I only found as I do check from time to time not every post, and that site you posted raised alarm bells for me, hence why I did some digging

As for trouble causer well I was only looking out for best interests of the site, its rules and its posters, as you were with this post.

MSE abuse seem to agree as they blocked many of those sites I mentioned in the web filter

Edna_Bucket_2

john1975 wrote: »

i know what you trying to do and its not going to work on me go bully someone else i said my piece.

Once again - you look mighty suspicious john. First Poppycat asks you a serious question and you respond by name calling. Once that is quite reasonably picked up you once again react badly - i am particularly offended by the underhand way you now claim "bullying."

Nonsense.

Why don't we just report you as being a long-term and cleverer than the average spammer to Abuse and see what they think?

Edna_Bucket_2

Just a quick repeat of the post I've put in the Spamming poll thread:

Edna_Bucket wrote: »

Sometimes (but only momemtarily!) I feel really sorry for these saddos. They seem to fall into two camps, and you have to wonder what sort of life someone has if:

a) Their "job" is to spend all day going round every single forum they can find to register new IDs and plant the same 5 or 6 US spam links (including the obnoxious use of a breast cancer one.) or alternatively the Hooper and copycat referral/pyramid sites.

b) The only thing they can do on a Friday or Saturday evening after drinking heavily (or other substance abuse) is to sit alone in front of a PC and try to spoil things for others by posting garbage, abuse, spam, resurrecting years old threads to mess up the Boards (the person who was "gaydave"/"eileen19"/"rachel-shake" and probably Kings of orient and many others)

When you think that this small number of people are also probably very young too, it's quite sad, and they do quite seriously need help.

That's not to say we shouldn't jump on them hard as soon as they are spotted of course!!

Thanks to all who do that, and to the BGs abnd Abuse team. I'm off to the US now for the rest of August, so good luck to you all with the disruptors while I'm away!!

Poppycat

Edna I hope when you go to States you come across intelligent US people, because my only impression of them is they are either 1. Can't be bothered on net so never come across some US with any brains 2. The net is full of braindead US

welshdeedee

Weekend spam alert!!!!!!!!!!!

Bumped to shift all the spam

Poppycat

OH dear OP busy again spamming yet another, yawn web site, now John has got banned

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=533908

Domain name:
freecurry.co.uk

Registrant:
Quassim Y Hussain

Registrant type:
UK Individual

so2006

oh yea, Gd work poppycat! Shame on him lol

Edna_Bucket_2

Edna_Bucket wrote: »

Myriad spammers today - like rancid flies around the MSE honeypot.

Several of the threads centre on the activiities of "sweetcollect" run by Carl Knight (formerly known as Carl Buckingham) and the websites of Richard Hooper.

Those threads will hopefully soon be deleted, but it might be useful to add to this ongoing resource thread. We've covered Hooper before, but here are a few items for reference on Knight/Buckingham (who also runs pinkcashback) - some are from MSE:

http://sweetcollect.blogspot.com/

(do read the "comments" as well)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5858766

http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/newbb/viewpost.php?uid=13928

http://reviewwritersforum.editboard.com/REVIEW-SITE-TALK-c1/CIAO-f2/Remember-the-whole-Sweet-Colllect-episode-t1391.htm

An interesting coincidence here. The last time we commented on the activities of Carl Knight (formerly Carl Buckingham) and the dubious "sweetcollect" websites, this was promptly followed by some attempts at site disruption by people (or one person) registering several usernames here as close variations to existing users and then trying to post all sorts of garbage.

Funnily enough, today poster Noswor makes a comment on sweetcollect

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=544980

and lo and behold we get the same pattern - a desperately sad individual registering variation names such as "alan close" as opposed to our real poster alanclose, and of course "ednabucket" The culprit then makes various offensive and disruptive posts, etc, etc.

Interesting coicidence that, isn't it? I wonder if the fan(s) of Mr Knight follows a similar repeating tactic elsewhere?

Poppycat

Yes I noticed that too, lol. Some people are so pathetic and unoriginal, we have seen it all before, sigh, and they still keep trying