WTF spammers...

[jsimenhoff]

Thanks for letting us know everyone. I'm working with the Forum Directors to find a quick fix. Hang tight.

 

[Elixer]

I don't get why even allow new members posts that have URLs in them?

It would be easier to just throw them all into a moderation queue, and then forum users would never see the spam.

Seems this forum software has some management tools... https://xenforo.com/help/spam/

A spammer may manage to bypass the automated registration checks and successfully register. A second line of defence can be added to prevent them from submitting their spam content. These options are found in the Spam Management group and are new to XenForo 1.2.

1. Spam phrases can be defined. If any of a user's first few messages matches theses phrases, an action can be taken. For example, some spammers submit messages with "watch film name online". We can match that with "watch * online" and simply block the message.
   
2. For more dynamic content matching, Akismet can be checked. This is a service that uses heuristics to determine if the submitted content is spam. If Akismet thinks the content is spam, you will need to manually approve (or delete) the message.

So, #2 is what you would want...

 

[jsimenhoff]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into adding Akismet to our list of spam blocking tools.

 

[jsimenhoff]

I'd also add that we already do prevent many URLs from being entered. Spam is notoriously hard to fight against. There isn't one catchall method otherwise, well there wouldn't be any spam

 

[Ken g6]

Seems this forum software has some management tools... https://xenforo.com/help/spam/

So, #2 is what you would want...

Hm, or maybe #1, blocking the most frequent characters of Hangul?

 

[Iron Woode]

they're back and posting gibberish.

that was fast. but I am sure they will be back soon.

 

[lxskllr]

they're back and posting gibberish.

that was fast. but I am sure they will be back soon.

Sorry, that was me :^(

 

[highland145]

Sorry, that was me :^(

Don't take credit for my crap.....

 

[brianmanahan]

they're back and posting gibberish.

that was fast. but I am sure they will be back soon.

i wouldn't think spammers would post gibberish

maybe that's somebody just looking to cause trouble :hmm:

 

[Iron Woode]

i wouldn't think spammers would post gibberish

maybe that's somebody just looking to cause trouble :hmm:

I am not sure who saw the posts they made.

they had subjects like - vbvbvbvb and the same thing in the post.

it was all very odd.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've seen a lot of giberish spam before too. I have a feeling they serve another purpose than to try to advertise. Heck even most "advertisement" type spam is typically so badly formatted that no one in their right mind would even think it's legit. It's like if some bots just copy and paste email spam to forums lol.

 

[Pick2]

The forums updated their defenses , obviously because I haven seen any spam in a day.
The gibberish posts/threads were them testing our new defenses.
I had posted in the one gibberish thread " Help , the spammers are feeling us up " or some such

Give them time , some will figure it out , hopefully most won't. At least no more of the 75 spam posts from each account.