Spambots?

nlz · 02-29-2008, 11:35 AM

Hey there,
I just received a PM by "7sins" advertising him to send him an email so that he could mail me some e-books. Even tho I'd like to think so I don't expect any kindness like this to be serious. Most likely it's not a guy but a bot sending random PMs in order to suggest people to really mail him to get their "real" mail-addresses and sell those for advertisement purposes. Another clue for that is, that he's not even got a single post.

However I'd advice the admins to take a closer look at it. Actually it should be easy to keep a community of 1000 users which now is kinda "invite only" clean.

stickylondon · 02-29-2008, 02:00 PM

I too had 2 copies of the same message from him. I deleted both. I noted that he had 0 posts. Looks very dodgy to me.

xnonfactor · 02-29-2008, 03:19 PM

I got the same message. I thought registrations were closed? Oh well it happens to the best of us I guess.

Alex Hess · 02-29-2008, 03:37 PM

Keep in mind, I am the only administrator here ; ). It's not as easy as you may think when you have your hands as filled as mine.

Not sure why or how he snuck through. It is definitely NOT a bot. The registration is bot-proof. May be a script the user ran. As for the post, I found 1 post by him, and a detailed one at that - http://exomagic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=576.

As for the PMs I have no idea. I searched the users PM database and it is reading that he sent 0 PMs. Never less I have set a ban on this user. He won't be bothering us any longer.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please all users who received this email do NOT follow his instructions.

I have permanently removed all emails/PM/posts from this user.

Quote:

You are about to perform the following actions concerning the user 7sins (id: 367)

1 threads started by this user will be deleted.
0 posts made by this user will be deleted.
45 private messages sent by this user will be deleted.
0 calendar events created by this user will be deleted.

02-29-2008, 11:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
nlz Inactive Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: ger:hamburg Posts: 118 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Spambots? Hey there, I just received a PM by "7sins" advertising him to send him an email so that he could mail me some e-books. Even tho I'd like to think so I don't expect any kindness like this to be serious. Most likely it's not a guy but a bot sending random PMs in order to suggest people to really mail him to get their "real" mail-addresses and sell those for advertisement purposes. Another clue for that is, that he's not even got a single post. However I'd advice the admins to take a closer look at it. Actually it should be easy to keep a community of 1000 users which now is kinda "invite only" clean.

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02-29-2008, 02:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
stickylondon Donator Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I too had 2 copies of the same message from him. I deleted both. I noted that he had 0 posts. Looks very dodgy to me.

02-29-2008, 03:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
xnonfactor Inactive Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 31 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I got the same message. I thought registrations were closed? Oh well it happens to the best of us I guess.

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