Spambots

canterswest

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2412386

Why do they target the top couple of boards on the forum mainly?

MSE has done nothing.

MothballsWallet

Just to play devil's advocate, canters, perhaps MSE are doing something but they can't/won't/aren't telling us users because that would mean posting it on the boards where the spammers can pick up on it.

canterswest

Ok, I hope they are.


While they leave it unattended it's not doing any good. Posts are indexed so quickly into Google's search results. MSE is effectively advertising services that are most likely a con, although MSE is not being paid.


If they invest resources and fix it, that indicates Moneysupermarket Group plc might not view the forum as a cost that it would rather be without.

fermi

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Just to play devil's advocate, canters, perhaps MSE are doing something but they can't/won't/aren't telling us users because that would mean posting it on the boards where the spammers can pick up on it.

Yes, and yes, AFAIK.

canterswest

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2412646
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2412678
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2412687

Lots more spam successfully indexed on Google. I won't post more Google searches as it adds more of the wrong words to this website.


Home page claims
79 new threads started so far today
567 new posts today; equivalent to 1 books


Much of it spam which is not books.

prowla

There seems to be a new batch this evening.

Perhaps anything with a phone number to country code 91 (India) in the subject could be caught by the filters?

canterswest

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2413076
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2413085

redux

There is even spam that doesn't look like spam.

Totally innocuous and apparently relevant comments turn out to have been identically copied from earlier posts.

It looks more automatic than personal presence. I assume the underlying motive is to build up a presence and eventually start adding links or signature spam

I just reported one username, with a suggestion to check IP address range, as there will probably be other names from the same place.

fermi

Yes, see those type fairly regularly.

canterswest

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2413226
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2413431
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=2413508


Droves of new members posting multiple spam messages, too many to record all but some listed above, plus more posted by Fermi on Martin Lewis's apology thread.