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Craig Lord of the Manor
Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 748 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:33 pm Post subject: A word of caution |
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Just wanted to let all of our legit users know that of late, there has been a wave of fake accounts created on this forum by bots. Seems to have been since the new year. Phantomotaku was the one who caught it and brought it to my attention. I have since begun deleting suspicious looking accounts. If you are a new user who has not yet posted, and the data in your profile looks fishy, you may get deleted. I am looking carefully to avoid deleting legit people, however.
Just keep an eye out for these bots and if you see anything suspicious, shoot a PM to either myself or Phantomotaku. Thanks everybody! _________________ ᛊᛈᚨᚱᚨ ᛟᚲᚢᚱ ᚠᚱᚨ ᚦᛖ ᛟᚠᛊᚨᛒᚱᛇᛞᛁ ᚨᚠ ᚦᛖ ᚾᛟᚱᚦᚢᚱ |
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Phantomotaku Moderator
Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 670 Location: Colton So Cal
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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I also wanted to add that its about 10-15 spam bots/spammers registering in a 12 hour period.
Last night I cleaned a massive amount of fake users (about 75) out of our mists by running their email addresses and usernames against the "StopForumSpam.com" database - any one who had an entry there was purged from our humble forum.
I cleaned another 15 out about an hour ago.
Craig and I are looking into options with the web host (bizhat.com) and the forum software (PHPbb)
Check back into the Forum Progress Report forum for any offical news for GRMF . _________________ When someone asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."~ Jack Burton |
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