Spambot Alert

[the gecko]

Logged on this morning to see we had some wonderful new members all online;

• carpinteyroaki
• ‎carpinteyroakp
• ‎carpinteyrobma
• ‎carpinteyrobug
• ‎carpinteyrobvv
• ‎carpinteyrocls
• ‎carpinteyrodao
• ‎carpinteyrodfe
• ‎carpinteyrodjv
• ‎carpinteyroeox
• ‎carpinteyrofhl
• ‎carpinteyrogfl
• ‎carpinteyrogif
• ‎carpinteyrogpl
• ‎carpinteyrogzb
• ‎carpinteyrohdm
• ‎carpinteyrohkq
• ‎carpinteyrohvw
• ‎carpinteyrohym
• ‎carpinteyroibn
• ‎carpinteyroiky
• ‎carpinteyroisa
• ‎carpinteyrojda
• ‎carpinteyrojye
• ‎carpinteyrojym
• ‎carpinteyrojzj
• ‎carpinteyrokbt
• ‎carpinteyrokeq
• ‎carpinteyrokgf
• ‎carpinteyroksq
• ‎carpinteyrolhc
• ‎carpinteyrolkd
• ‎carpinteyroltf
• ‎carpinteyromiu
• ‎carpinteyromoc
• ‎carpinteyromqp
• ‎carpinteyromrd
• ‎carpinteyromrh
• ‎carpinteyromxp
• ‎carpinteyronso
• ‎carpinteyronxk
• ‎carpinteyroofh
• ‎carpinteyroogx
• ‎carpinteyroolx
• ‎carpinteyrophm
• ‎carpinteyropnw
• ‎carpinteyropon
• ‎carpinteyroqel
• ‎carpinteyroqhs
• ‎carpinteyroqla
• ‎carpinteyroqof
• ‎carpinteyroqoq
• ‎carpinteyrorif
• ‎carpinteyrorkw
• ‎carpinteyrorns
• ‎carpinteyroror
• ‎carpinteyrorqr
• ‎carpinteyrortn
• ‎carpinteyrosmz
• ‎carpinteyrotbd
• ‎carpinteyrotdn
• ‎carpinteyrotij
• ‎carpinteyrotju
• ‎carpinteyrotkx
• ‎carpinteyrotsi
• ‎carpinteyrotyi
• ‎carpinteyrounl
• ‎carpinteyroutk
• ‎carpinteyrouuv
• ‎carpinteyrovbp
• ‎carpinteyrovez
• ‎carpinteyrovph
• ‎carpinteyrowdo
• ‎carpinteyrowid
• ‎carpinteyrowqe
• ‎carpinteyrowwh
• ‎carpinteyrowxm
• ‎carpinteyrowys
• ‎carpinteyroxgp
• ‎carpinteyroxmo
• ‎carpinteyroxqv
• ‎carpinteyroyaj
• ‎carpinteyroymb
• ‎carpinteyroyuz
• ‎carpinteyroyym
• ‎carpinteyrozbi
• ‎carpinteyrozjl
• ‎carpinteyrozkv
• ‎carpinteyrozop
• ‎carpinteyrozqd
• ‎carpinteyrozqw
• ‎carpinteyrozww
• ‎carpinteyrozzr

Looks a bit strange. Mods might want to delete them before they start posting spam.....


cheers
Andrew

[Jarrah Jack]

Did they all pay ten bucks?

[the gecko]

Dunno about $10, but I can see they are multiplying.
Someone should tell a Mod before these accounts start posting.
Anybody have a mods phone number?

Its just a matter of time before the boards are flooded. This is a bot attack, and it has happened before.

more sus names just joined;

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• ‎exiblylythini
• ‎eyzisssb
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• ‎fleesmemi
• ‎fnfiwsbzub
• ‎foornepeatalt
• ‎Frevetarcurce
• ‎ftcbjnirt
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• ‎fzriyjsvyo
• ‎
• ‎giocpqqpaz
• ‎givgbsq
• ‎
• ‎gnvpgzgpfnff
• ‎gohxkme
• ‎
• ‎
• ‎grxrhds
• ‎gt71sn09
• ‎gzdkeubpqn
• ‎hapebratt
• ‎Hichcrimi
• ‎hnllrxrfjn
• ‎hoxeldcheelve

Apolagies of any of these are genuine accounts, I didnt have time to check them all. Im sure 99% of them are bogus.

[mod5]

I am sure that if they all subscribe and pay the fee then Ausfish will be far better off. Best to let them pay and collect their $10 then wipe them out after they post. Win/win for Ausfish.

As it is they cannot do any harm.

[boboncc]

I'm now getting this from both of my computers when I log onto ausfish:

Attachment 89812

[the gecko]

Cool. Didnt realise they could register for free, but not post yet.
I thought they had bypassed your systems.

Just trying to be helpful, as it is an odd thing to see all these names.
Please feel free delete/move this thread then mod5.

I'll shut up now, lol.

cheers

[mod5]

All good information for people mate.

Forums from around the world experience this all the time. Fortunately this software has some great features that stops them. It is the real spammers (real humans) that you have to watch out for.

[mod5]

I'm now getting this from both of my computers when I log onto ausfish:

Attachment 89812

Ausfish is dealing with this in another thread.

[Ausfish]

Thanks for the alert. They can't do anything unless they pay to post. This is one of the reasons why we introduced the pay to post option years ago, other wise the forums would have gone the way of many others around the world.

[Ausfish]

I'm now getting this from both of my computers when I log onto ausfish:

Attachment 89812

It seems that AVG was picking up the way we served ads as a virus. But no other virus software was. Have made a few changes so hope it is fixed for you now. I don't use AVG or IE so can not test it.