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#1   08-12-2008, 12:30 AM
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If a spammer fails to spam, is he really a spammer?


I've gotten a bunch of new sign-ups on one particular forum these past few days, but none of them have posted yyet. Some I suspect are spammers because they have China-based email addresses, some have gmail addresses but the names seem a bit overly random. But none have posted or even filled in the homepage field in their profile. Think I should do a pre-emptive strike, or would that be overreacting?
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#2   08-12-2008, 06:07 AM
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i like to watch, and play with, spammers sometimes. just to see what they do, see if i can find a new way they are spamming and what not.
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#3   08-12-2008, 10:28 AM
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What do you mean by play with them? What sort of spammer tortures have you devised?
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#4   08-13-2008, 06:01 AM
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well not so much play with them, but just watch them to see what they do. Spammers are getting quite creative it seems so it's good to adapt and learn how they do the things they do. Luckily with the combination of defense measure that are out there most admins rarely have to deal with them.
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Well I'm pretty much leaving them alone for now, though I did forbid new sign-ups with that email address from China, so we'll see what they do...
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I never do anything to them until they actually spam.
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I have an ideea ... just go on your forum control panel ... create a new group ( and put them for example 5000 words required for posts or high number of words + no links ( no hyperlinks ) ... edit also theyr signatures / theyr quota for pm mesages and all features wich you normaly give to peoples when they register .... limit those users wich you suspect at maximum ... eventualy you can allow them to see only some part of the forums ( you can create one special forum who's seen only by them ) ...
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#8   09-05-2008, 05:49 AM
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why would you do all that work for a spammer? seems like i would just ban them myself...
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Like that spammer I had who actually posted relevant content, just with lots of links to their site... that treatment would be good

today I've got my eye on a couple of new signups who haven't spammed yet, have different ip addresses, but have curiously similar typing styles. Just waiting for the sock puppets to start talking to each other
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i hate the kind of spam probably the worst. some person with broken english signs up and asks a totally off topic question then you wait a few days and OOO someone has the perfect answer

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