Two more spammers - Orchid Board

got ants · #1 01-10-2011, 08:35 PM

klmn942 and rstu968.

Both have been banned and message sent... "spam is not tolerated here, go find another website, interpol has been notified. cc"

Call_Me_Bob · #2 01-10-2011, 08:38 PM

i saw them too, guess it wasnt needed for me to give them infractions to, but oh well.

there have been alot lately, on this forum and a bonsai forum i frequent. people need lives!

Gin · #3 01-10-2011, 08:54 PM

good on you !go get em

ronaldhanko · #4 01-10-2011, 09:00 PM

The two you banned are the same Canadian spammer who always sends his spam under a name with four consecutive letters of the alphabet. Wish somebody could find you where he is and get him out of here permanently.

Call_Me_Bob · #5 01-10-2011, 09:04 PM

isnt there a way to ban his ip address or something? idk, just spitballing

trdyl · #6 01-10-2011, 09:32 PM

The IPs are not always static but the MAC addresses are. I'll bring it the "MODS".

got ants · #7 01-10-2011, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

The two you banned are the same Canadian spammer who always sends his spam under a name with four consecutive letters of the alphabet. Wish somebody could find you where he is and get him out of here permanently.

Its funny how minds think. I saw the last three numerals, and was like..WHOA!! Gottcha!

Hold up now, I almost banned BikerDoc.

Gin · #8 01-11-2011, 06:50 AM

I write down the ones I think might be spammers so far been right, Sometimes they register then come back later to spam .

RosieC · #9 01-11-2011, 09:44 AM

Ah, I've just replied to Ted's PM on this before seeming this thread.

Anyway, as Ted said IP's are not static and I've tried looking for a common one which these are coming from with no luck.

I don't believe we can read MAC address. It's certainly not something I can see (I have a little icon which tells me the IP address for every single post on the board... Mauhaha

)

I've asked some of the techies here and they don't believe it's possible for a website to read a MAC address. We don't believe it's transmitted through the interweb

RosieC · #10 01-11-2011, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Gin

I write down the ones I think might be spammers so far been right, Sometimes they register then come back later to spam .

I do the same.

However some suprise me. We have a couple of users whose names look like spammers names to me and they are genuine users.

For this reason I have to wait until someone actually spams before I can delete them.

The other thing I do as soon as I log in, and several times while logged in if I'm here a while, is look at the top posters list. If there is any name I don't recognise I go and check it out. I quite often find spammers before they have been reported that way. Most spammers post arround 5-10 messages and that can very easily put them in the Top Posts for 'Today'.