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Rex_Mundi

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henryscat

meher wrote: »

we could ask the forum team to filter the $ sign from the site

not a bad idea actually!

meher

Poppycat wrote: »

This US spam is more often than not a Bot. A PC that has sometimes innocently been taken over by a trojan which it then spams forums

There is no full way to stop them they get round those letters/words that forums use to sign up to now. The best way is block known IP address that come from a country like US/China but there are ways round it

banning IP address doesn't always work - if they're into these sort of business they would also know their way round beating any such techi system - it wouldn't be economically feasible to attempt at ridding them with any set system

not letting people to post links for the first 30 days of registering with the forum or to let them post links only after 15 posts might make some difference

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

I love this board - I loved hearing about the 3 leather jacket scam and how many peeps had fell for that one.:o For mentioned is fore-mentioned is fore-warned and all that.:D

meher

and finally could we stop spamming the board with anti-spam threads and posts please

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furndire

What is the point of closing it down ~ basically, use common sense ~ Then no-one gets freebies. Most Spammers work on peoples greed - and usually the saying "if it seems to be too good to be true, it is" is usually correct 99.9999 times out of 100.
If anyone is worried about getting spam from it, they shouldn't use the thread.
The spammers are usually picked up very quickly, and a lot of nice freebies would be missed for the sake of ignoring a thread.