Spam Bots are back

martinthebandit

http://www.theawl.com/2013/12/the-new-spammer-panic

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

Now fake passport spam, just in case you need to travel to your true love. (DFW Board)

forgotmyname

Kitchen spammers are going to get more phone calls tomorrow. Odd how they got really annoyed when i called them last time.

torbrex

and here we go again, more Indian black magic

Even if the spam button was at the top of the page, it would save scrolling down through all that crap to get to it.

torbrex

as if its not bad enough that the bot is posting every 30 seconds, along come some well meaning members and bump the thread back to the top of the page again.

Sneezy

Have reported them all Torbrex - I normally spend my last few minutes in bed nosing at posts overnight and with the exception of the last week I don't know when it was last so bad :0

fermi

18 threads zapped. :eek:

fermi

custardy wrote: »

Yup,its a great tool
You see one spam post and jobs one.
Doesnt matter about moderation rights on other boards.

Could really do with that this morning.

torbrex

fermi wrote: »

Could really do with that this morning.

I counted 16 on the Public Transport board, all at 30 second intervals

fermi

What you saw was the tip of the iceberg.