Forum spam

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

I've just deleted a post by user chocnuts from 119.95.174.141 (Philippines) on when is neo/j 1.1 beta going to be released? (from 2004!)

Smokey

narf · The Anomaly Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075

Thanks Smokey and Patrick. I have disabled the accounts for chocnuts and rogerwillson.

--fran

James3359 · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:35 am Post subject:

I have deleted a post from user verankey (IP 59.93.221.111 - India) on the "Movie and scanner support test patch now available" thread on NeoOffice Testing. It was a post about the best digital camera for taking pictures of cats' eyes!

And an OP from arkins (IP 115.118.112.194 - India) on the Vacation Notices forum advertising MBBs in the Ukraine.

narf · The Anomaly Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075

Thanks James. I have disabled the accounts of arkins and verankey.

--fran

ovvldc · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

I just deleted a very off-topic post from user 'gracyna' from IP 59.93.206.38.

It was about dancing songs in a topic on decorative borders in Word, which had not been posted to since last June.

Best wishes,
Oscar

narf · The Anomaly Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075

Thanks Oscar. I have disabled gracyna's account.

--fran

ovvldc · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:10 am Post subject:

I saw a very off-topic post in a two-year old thread by user racheliya rom IP 59.93.245.169 (BTW, the IP lookup option seems to be broken).

I actually answered before I realised it was spam Rolling Eyes

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Best wishes,
Oscar

MacRat · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

The interesting thing was that the text use was a copy of a question posted on Yahoo Answers from a couple years ago...

Strange spam.

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

narf · The Anomaly Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075

ovvldc · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

You can also use network-tools.com; I typically use the "network lookup" option, http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=network&host=59.93.245.169, which gives you a summary at the top ("59.93.245.169 is from India(IN) in region Southern and Eastern Asia") and then progressively drills down to the actual ISP.

(I actually have this set up as a bookmark shortcut in Camino, so I can just copy the IP, type "nwtools" in the location bar, paste the IP, and hit return.)

Smokey

Samwise · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:25 am Post subject:

OK, we may have 2 new suspicious members.

First, stephenmorphey has three posts which, while possibly legitimate, revive semi-old threads.

And then, Water. His posts range from semi-suspicious:

https://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=56224&highlight=#56224

Lorinda · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:02 am Post subject:

They both seem to be taking a good deal of time crafting their posts, either to be relevant or to talk for a while to be typical spammers.

Two of Stephemmorphey's posts seem to be right on target, if a little late to the party. My "vote" would be to leave those posts and watch what happens over the next little bit.

Water's posts do strike me as somewhat odd; but I'm not sure that oddness itself is reason to ban them. I'm more concerned about the admission that they haven't used NeoOffice (are currently downloading), followed by an attempt to help solve an issue. That may need to be addressed, but I'm not sure about the best way to do it.

Lorinda