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    Posted: 16-November-2010 at 20:00
It's been brought to my attention recently about the
amount of new members who are appearing on this forum but
not posting. they also seem to have some dodgy usernames
and some even more dodgy websites linked.

Is this forum being infiltrated by spammers, I'd hate to
see that happening to such a good forum.

C'mon mods get your finger out and clear these rat bags
cleared out once and for all.

If nothing gets done about this soon I'm going to post
this up on every section within this board.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16-November-2010 at 21:54
This has been going on for a very long time, everyone has to be removed manually at the moment (which is time consuming task in itself).
At the moment it's easier to remove them on their first post as most just register and then are forgotten.

All I can say personally is, if you see one posting then just hit the report button and the next available mod will be able to deal with it.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-November-2010 at 18:55
Hi Rhys
Thanks for the reply on this subject.
I am logged onto this forum allot every day therefore this has been concerning me for a while after i noticed the number of people logging on with strange names and not posteing.  I was suspicious after another forum I was on had bother with spammers. I have noticed that going back through the member list there are well over 400 pages with 25 new members per pages the majority of them being these fake profiles obvious by the strange names and the more obvious dodgey website links attached to the profiles. I sent a pm to Killian on 21st Oct asking about these profiles as it concerns me greatly but unfortuately he has not picked up the PM yet. I understand what you are saying about removing them but the thing is these people are logging on but not posting which means we cannot report them and this is making me even more worried as to what they are doing on our forum.  I really think that in this day and age of worries around internet security this requires to be seriously looked into. I for one will reluctantly stop using this forum if this continues.
Thanks for you help with this matter
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-November-2010 at 20:46
As yet we have had no problems with security on the forum.
We have already discussed ways of automatically removing spammers from the forum (you'd be amazed at how many folk's birthday is 1st Jan 1910 - the default setting. Unfortunately they can't be auto-blocked as yet with this birth-date using this forum software). I'm sure as soon as it is possible it will be implemented.

As with any internet forum it is advised not to publish emails/phone numbers etc. PM's will automatically notify you via email anyway.

Most spammers are Eastern European (webs ending .ru) and are probably auto generated or by folks doing several at a time (hence dob not filled in)

I can't see any reason to stop using this forum and if there were to be a security risk everyone would be informed straight away on the forum.

If anyone has any further questions please contact Admin/forum mods and we can then discuss it off-forum.

Please don't be offended but I'll close this topic now.
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