Fed Up Of Spammers

Edinburghlass_2

Bogof_Babe can you take the link out of your post, don't want to give them any more traffic than necessary.

Bogof_Babe

Sorry EdLass, I was attempting to delete the whole thing as I realised the text had already been posted above . Got my buttons in a twist .

You were quick off the mark there!

jacktyler

I've reported mpkoojacky

Browntoa

there seems to be 4 or 5 on the forum at the moment, suspecy it's "bots" not real people

Numpty_Monkey

Poppycat wrote: »

xzylove
Last Activity: Today 8:15 PM
Private Messaging @ 8:15 PM

is still messaging people



so is this numpety

jspdkd
Last Activity: Today 8:15 PM
Private Messaging @ 8:15 PM

no it ain't me:p

custardy

cant be bothered reading 5 pages
what we do on a forum i moderate is a 1 touch ban & clean up
this works on new members who have been registered less than X days(eg 7)
and have less than X posts(eg 10)
it instantly bans and deletes all posts made by the user
this is open to all moderators ,and is great for instantly zapping spammers/spambots
obviously there is a level of trust involved with admin/site owners in their mods
handy for me as i often pop on before going to work and can catch the smappers on USA times

MrsTinks

xzylove pm'd me too which I found hillarious Duely reported them and wish I was allowed to be very naughty and track them down and hammer THEM with spam... *sigh* alas chances are they are infact part of a botnet and it's someone remotely controlling innocent peoples computers to run their delightful little bots...

Hohum - keep reporting them peeps and eventually they might get the message

Edinburghlass_2

Sorry but please don't keep reporting them or abuse will be overloaded with emails although if you get one from a user who hasn't been posted here then do report.

Browntoa

yes , 1 report is sufficient....poor abuse team will get 1000's of emails in one hit and the other spam will get missed

Nomad25

Can I tag an off-topic, but related question in here [have asked before - but got ignored]?

If in my user cp, I only enable MSE admin to send me pm's:

1] Does this mean spam doesn't get through?

oh a 2nd/3rd q:

What is forum protocol on enabling other MSE'rs to access? Do most members do it?