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 Post subject: Spam campaign on the Forum
PostPosted: 19 Aug 2020, 09:51 
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The video and sound quality will get worse and worse towards the end until it will start skipping and stoping abruptly. This happens on every disc almost. I tried cleaning the discs. I tried cleaning the laser. Nothing helped.

(spam links removed, account deleted, keeping this one as an example).

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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 19 Aug 2020, 23:57 
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New user, no posts, no specifically LD related question, has a username that is one word (sometimes a town) followed by a single digit...it’s spam, guys.
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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 20 Aug 2020, 02:35 
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signofzeta wrote:
New user, no posts, no specifically LD related question, has a username that is one word (sometimes a town) followed by a single digit...it’s spam, guys.


Lucky for us the bot creating the account isn't very smart (although coming from a different IP each time).

Fake accounts (but real email addresses):

+--------------+
| Username     |
+--------------+
| kepricorns3  |
| relindwto6   |
| airystelan3  |
| hitishakeys5 |
| marvelsferb7 |
| johnwalker1  |
| ukesilkeris6 |
| trikibasey2  |
+--------------+


Also created 2 accounts at the same time, posted one message each never replied to my messages:

+-----------------+
| Username        |
+-----------------+
| colton11        |
| camden11        |
+-----------------+


They're all scheduled to be deleted if no more life sign.

Feel free to flag new/suspicious ones.

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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 20 Aug 2020, 02:50 
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All UK towns? Almost sounds like It’s Grim Up North.
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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 02 Sep 2020, 03:56 
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Also created 2 accounts at the same time, posted one message each never replied to my messages:

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| Username        |
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| colton11        |
| camden11        |
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Both deleted.

They do not edit messages later to add links but add a signature with links.

I might have to disable URLs in signatures.

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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 02 Sep 2020, 04:00 
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admin wrote:
Fake accounts (but real email addresses):


Few more since last time:

+--------------+
| Username     |
+--------------+
| wenildexis5  |
| trikaldevs2  |
| bretaincrab3 |
| ilorametis1  |
| jhyt65       |
| jhhyy98      |
| kepricorns3  |
| relindwto6   |
| airystelan3  |
| hitishakeys5 |
| marvelsferb7 |
| johnwalker1  |
| ukesilkeris6 |
| trikibasey2  |
+--------------+


All deleted.

They seem to copy/paste r/LaserDisc posts for credibility.

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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 02 Sep 2020, 09:54 
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admin wrote:

I might have to disable URLs in signatures.

Julien


Maybe make it so the account needs x amount of posts or is x age, if that's possible of course.
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 Post subject: Re: Very strange problem I'm having with my player.
PostPosted: 02 Sep 2020, 10:21 
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Maybe make it so the account needs x amount of posts or is x age, if that's possible of course.


Turns out I can keep new accounts in the "Newly Registered Users" and assign specific constraints (no link, no signature, etc.) until you reach X number of posts.

Let's set it to 3 as a test.

Initially I had set up a specific "Spam" user group but these bots never come back again, I'll delete them as well:

+------------------+
| Username         |
+------------------+
| hippersberwyn    |
| root7274         |
| fetchsouthern    |
| madisoncarr      |
| tom4254          |
| hazlewood7857    |
| jassifarnandis51 |
| tim5768          |
+------------------+


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 Post subject: Re: Spam campaign on the Forum
PostPosted: 02 Sep 2020, 12:29 
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Can you restrict "Newly Registered Users" group to just General Discussions>Presentation Thread...or maybe even just General Discussions sub-forum for their first post/thread?
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 Post subject: Re: Spam campaign on the Forum
PostPosted: 03 Sep 2020, 11:32 
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deadlegion wrote:
Can you restrict "Newly Registered Users" group to just General Discussions>Presentation Thread...or maybe even just General Discussions sub-forum for their first post/thread?


Maybe but I don't want to make it TOO hard to show good face.

Let's try with the 3-post limit first.

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 Post subject: Re: Spam campaign on the Forum
PostPosted: 03 Sep 2020, 12:36 
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Just find out what country the spammers are from since they're presumably not bots if they can get past a captcha.

Like if they're from England, have them tick a box that says "agree" on "Poland is greater than Great Britain" or something
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 Post subject: Re: Spam campaign on the Forum
PostPosted: 03 Sep 2020, 12:51 
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takeshi666 wrote:
Just find out what country the spammers are from since they're presumably not bots if they can get past a captcha.


I checked IP but I got Brazil, USA, Australia, Korea and the Netherlands.

Probably VPN or simply hacked computers leveraged as part of a botnet.

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