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Discussion in 'Support and Feedback' started by gkd_uk, Dec 15, 2017.

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  1. gkd_uk

    gkd_uk Well-Known Member affiliate

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    Hi

    There are lots of spammy posts currently being posted

    Could someone please remove ASAP

    Thanks
     
    gkd_uk, Dec 15, 2017
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  3. gkd_uk

    gkd_uk Well-Known Member affiliate

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    Members posting spam are:

    ssuperman007
    duklsec07
    anduk sade
    werfdfdsf05
    kingqueenie01
    vriom crow
     
    gkd_uk, Dec 15, 2017
    gkd_uk, Dec 15, 2017
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    T J Tutor

    T J Tutor GM Administrator Certified Vendor Dojo Master affiliate

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    The list we had this morning was actually bigger than that. Thanks for reporting!

    These are mostly very sophisticated bots and it's a plague at the moment on companies, businesses, and community sites.

    We have been interviewing "bot mitigation" services recently to determine the best company to meet our needs. We will be implementing something to help prevent this type of vandalism for 2018.
     
    T J Tutor, Dec 15, 2017
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  5. Anthony.

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    It's annoying, just reported a few
     
    Anthony., Dec 16, 2017
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  6. azgold

    azgold Administrator Administrator Dojo Master affiliate

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    Just deleted a bunch more this morning. We delete them as soon as we see them or read reports about them and thanks so much for bringing our attention to these, guys!

    We have to sleep sometime and I think that's when they like to take advantage.
     
    azgold, Dec 16, 2017
    azgold, Dec 16, 2017
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  7. MonkeySocks

    MonkeySocks Affiliate Marketplace Seller affiliate

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    This is an attack of Chinese bots
     
    MonkeySocks, Dec 16, 2017
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    T J Tutor

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    Correct! They are in great abundance and a huge nuisance!
     
    T J Tutor, Dec 16, 2017
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  9. Anthony.

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    Maybe add a recaptcha for post creation, takes 2 seconds for humans (us) to do and can be just that little bit harder for the bots.
     
    Anthony., Dec 16, 2017
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    T J Tutor

    T J Tutor GM Administrator Certified Vendor Dojo Master affiliate

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    Believe it or not, we have recaptcha during the signup process as well as email account verification. These bots actually are groups of bots that work in concert with one another for all of these tasks.

    We Admins were in several bot mitigation demonstrations last week and it really opened our eyes as to how prolific and sophisticated they are these days. I was a developer for the banking industry for many years and I am fairly experienced with security and breach prevention protocols. These new gen bots are incredibly capable.

    We will get a new service to eliminate as much of this as is humanly possible shortly after the 1st of the year.
     
    T J Tutor, Dec 16, 2017
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  11. Daria_WapEmpire

    Daria_WapEmpire Affiliate Manager Affiliate Manager affiliate

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    Hey guys, I know that you know, but this everyday spamming all over the forum is becoming irritating... Really.
     
    Daria_WapEmpire, Jan 18, 2018
    Daria_WapEmpire, Jan 18, 2018
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  12. VirtualGlobalPhone

    VirtualGlobalPhone Service Manager Service Manager affiliate

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    @Daria_WapEmpire ; a cost to be paid and need to be accepted when someone become famous is it not ? Just a thought...
    Regarding spam post like @T J Tutor pointed out many times, we are on with them and keep blocking. The more they attack smarter our forum becomes.
     
    VirtualGlobalPhone, Jan 18, 2018
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  13. Daria_WapEmpire

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    Absolutely understood, still feels like it's becoming only worse
     
    Daria_WapEmpire, Jan 18, 2018
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    T J Tutor

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    You are CORRECT! They usually tend to stack up after 10PM EST and continue through 10AM EST. We eliminate all those that attempt to stack up through the day, but we have only a couple of Mods that work on the other side of the planet while we here in the states are asleep.

    We have just two more bot mitigation companies to interview and then we will implementing one of them.

    We feel your pain with this issue and we also apologize for not having a solution in place sooner. It's only over the past four months where it has truly become as unmanageable as it is now.

    We will either pay a service, or add a person, specifically to resolve this issue over the next couple of weeks.
     
    T J Tutor, Jan 18, 2018
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  15. no2pencil

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    The late night spam bots that I see post are always (& I mean always) in non-english. It can't be that difficult to setup thresholds of detected non-english posts, in large numbers, from the same user/ip.
     
    no2pencil, Jan 18, 2018
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  16. Graybeard

    Graybeard Well-Known Member affiliate

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    I don't have the server logs but there should be some similarities. IP 'C' blocks or User-Agent strings ...

    Google Proxy in Chrome is another issue to consider.
    As mentioned above the character set used is Chinese that should not be that hard to filter in PHP (xenforo)
    How to remove chinese characters in a string

    upload_2018-5-18_16-32-35.png

    Only the English words will be in the post. Making posting in Chinese a total waste of time ;)
    Perhaps, they will just go away :)

    **You could also do preg_match {Han} and generate an error unknown message -- in Han Chinese >:0)

    Maybe, I can use this eventually myself ...


    Graybeard, Jan 18, 2018
     
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    T J Tutor

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    We have eliminated the Asian spams. Have not seen a report on them in a couple of months now.

    We implemented something similar @Graybeard ., as well as a few other measures.
     
    T J Tutor, May 18, 2018
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  18. MillionDollarAffMarketing

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    Most mornings I see a lot of 1-post health spam related threads that always reference supplement4us, healthcaresupchat, healthyourder, nutritionfit, etc....

    Looks to be at least 10 right now.
     
    MillionDollarAffMarketing, May 20, 2018
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  19. Graybeard

    Graybeard Well-Known Member affiliate

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    Ban '/' in the thread titles as in http:// that will reduce it for a while -- thread titles are NOT nofollow as they are found indexed -- this is what they are trying to accomplish (me thinks).
     
    Graybeard, May 20, 2018
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  20. MillionDollarAffMarketing

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    Maybe a bad idea, but making post #1 pending approval. These spammers don't really post past the first post.
     
    MillionDollarAffMarketing, May 20, 2018
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  21. Graybeard

    Graybeard Well-Known Member affiliate

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    Then someone has to moderate the first post. Real people get turned-off. We all lose that way. So, yes bad idea. Better to just cut the spammers access off by filtering IMHO.
     
    Graybeard, May 20, 2018
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