SPAM INVADERS

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

I've deleted a half-dozen Spammers since last week. Most of 'em drug pushers, one * Site Purveyor.
Noisy-Person, can you look into this apparent weakness in our Shields?

One spammer Username was : immerlere
Another (just now...) was : aKikeInesk

[zuphilius]

Wow, someone is up to no good here, a bunch of threads have the spam thing going on all in the last hour!!

[Petrock's 1984 Spree]

Yeah ive seen a few of em, wierd stuff man. Noiseguy to the rescue!

[killerpancake]

doesn't spam come in a can? is there a way to tell if the spam is all coming from one place?

[mousewheels]

Noiseguy's the expert on putting up impairments to auto-registration and postings.

Keep up the good reporting
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13 spammers killed by Mouse from Sun to Mon morning...
Ringtones, various drugs and a gaming site.
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inizbupyign
Troullyhypoday
aEnermekHeni
aanaelfzex
brildRiff
aAnaeryrarge
JennCDX
Watriolla
BeaurrepAdepe
Oriegoarrerly
flonnasplef
aOptobbyArourb

[KingJeff801]

I love me some spam, just not the internet style!.....born and raised in the place that eats more spam than the rest of the nation combined .....HAWAII

[eliteguy50]

salsEmpop is another spam poster.

[maddog]

eat spam-do meth-steal scoots= hawaiian style...

[noiseguy]

I noticed the increased spam traffic too.

I'd changed the Captcha on the board, from barely readable to something else, during the last upgrade. It didn't work; we had something like 300+ spam accounts signed up in the last month. I've deleted all the accounts, and expect the inflow will tail off. If not, other measures will be taken.

[Trafficjamz]

Spammity spam

[noiseguy]

Ugg. Captcha change didn't happen. Another 50 spam accounts today.

Changed it again. We'll see if that fixes it.

One more try. Then I'm shutting down user registration until I can figure something out.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Just torpedoed tictersborgdhan.

[mousewheels]

Technology ranges from wild to brute force. A lot of talent seems bent upon breaking most any challenge between detecting a human vs computer.

-- Brute force side - outsourcing at a hard to believe price... and what folks do to see skin .

With respect to Wheelman - at this site, requiring a new member registration to know some characteristics of his current state of tune, max GPS, jet size, carb or last joke, this would at least educate the human solver population - and frustrate the computer programmers

---- from a 'wiki topic on CAPTCHA's (often those distorted character strings a human needs to echo back )

Human solvers

CAPTCHA is vulnerable to a relay attack that uses humans to solve the puzzles. One approach involves relaying the puzzles to a group of human operators who can solve CAPTCHAs. In this scheme, a computer fills out a form and when it reaches a CAPTCHA, it gives the CAPTCHA to the human operator to solve.

Spammers pay about $0.80 to $1.20 for each 1,000 solved CAPTCHAs to companies employing human solvers in Bangladesh, China, India, and many other developing nations.[19]

Another approach involves copying the CAPTCHA images and using them as CAPTCHAs for a high-traffic site owned by the attacker. With enough traffic, the attacker can get a solution to the CAPTCHA puzzle in time to relay it back to the target site.[20] In October 2007, a piece of malware appeared in the wild which enticed users to solve CAPTCHAs in order to see progressively further into a series of striptease images.[21][22] A more recent view is that this is unlikely to work due to unavailability of high-traffic sites and competition by similar sites.[23]

These methods have been used by spammers to set up thousands of accounts on free email services such as Gmail and Yahoo!.[24] Since Gmail and Yahoo! are unlikely to be blacklisted by anti-spam systems, spam sent through these compromised accounts is less likely to be blocked.

[killerpancake]

50 new spammers a day!? wow. what if the first post by a new member had to be checked by an admin? Im just throwing out ideas.

[wikked_spree57]

I've noticed that spammers in this forum use completely irrelevant and scrambled up user IDs. Pretty easy to tell by looking at the names I see. If it isn't idiots invading the neighborhood in real life, now it's happening in our online communities. LOL