Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

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

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

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

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

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

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

salsEmpop is another spam poster.

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

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.

Spammity spam

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.

Greetings:

Just torpedoed tictersborgdhan.

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.

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.

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