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19 minutes ago, NewZed said:

The latest.  NY.  One post.  This one has something hidden in the flat line under the post.  Shows up when pasted though.  dynamonsworld.com

 

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I have been very aggressive at banning accounts and hiding posts/threads from spammers.  It's possible this is related to me but when I look at the post I don't see the info mentioned.  Another mod may have already deleted it.  Thanks for reporting, I can't get them all.

 

Cary

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This might be an old thing but many new "members" are putting web links in their Profiles as Contact Information.  These three have joined within the last couple of days.

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58739-alileyla986/

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58740-kats-botanicals/

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58741-brazilian-hair-wigs/

 

 

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1 hour ago, NewZed said:

This might be an old thing but many new "members" are putting web links in their Profiles as Contact Information.  These three have joined within the last couple of days.

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58739-alileyla986/

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58740-kats-botanicals/

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58741-brazilian-hair-wigs/

 

 

Those are all spammers, and can be banned. 

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These accounts have all been flagged as spammers and I have removed the posts that were made.  I allowed one to stay that was indicated as a bot but have sent them an email asking them to respond on why they are not a bot and should be banned.

 

Thanks for all the help everyone,

Cary

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Thanks NewZed.  Those and a bunch of others have been flagged as spammers.  I've also removed from bot posts and topics from the forums.  I've been away for a few days and unable to do my daily patrolling.  We seem to have a lot more spam activity lately and it will take the village to fight them.

 

Thanks for all the help,

Cary

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23 hours ago, NewZed said:

 

These are all flagged as spammers.

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14 hours ago, NewZed said:

This one at least has a Z in the web link.  Maybe the AI is learning.  No posts, just a sign up and a web link.

 

https://forums.hybridz.org/profile/58780-northlandz/

Also removed.  I try to make sure I check the site a couple of times a day but it doesn't always work out that way.  I appreciate the extra help in getting rid of these.

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22 hours ago, rturbo 930 said:

I imagine there's some additional security measures that could be put in place in the account creation process. Classiczcars, which has the same software, doesn't have this problem. 

Dan would have to answer but we're missing the spam plugin.  It appears this software has a license fee that isn't trivial that Dan has been paying.  I'm not sure how much the spam plugin costs but there may be other reasons it stopped working I don't know about.

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Here's another one. It's very subtle and might actually be a real person, but they post about 5 meaningless but not obviously spam comments in a row, and then will sneak in a link or reference to 4wheelparts or similar. 

 

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