(grizzled internet vet) I've seen worse (/grizzled internet vet)It's getting bad... there's currently a thread that is entitled "girls fucking dogs" and god help me, I just thought it would be spam... no, those images were uploaded. My brain needs bleach now.
I think you are right.Closing off Russia to registration ever or even looking at the site might be a good idea.
It's not actually purchasing things that nets the profit, it's redirecting people to either a site that gerates revenue through hits, or in a worst case scenerio contains malware that will infect your computer.I'm just curious as to just HOW successful could this kind of spam POSSIBLY be? Surely no one truly buys that shit on impulse thanks to some random incoherent spam on a message board, right?
RIGHT?!?!
apparently they do
But I can't even fathom the jughead that would even follow the link on these things.
At least some of the email spam I've seen has some effort to actually make it look legit & perhaps warrant a clickthru. Hell - I've seen some reallllly legit looking Mists of Pandaria beta invites.
Side note: I used to get WoW spam all the time. then I cancelled my acct for about a year & a half - no more spam. Back in march I re-upped thru the Scroll of Ressurection deal, & within a day I started getting spam again. Then last week we hear of the security breach. Perhaps they've had a security problem longer than they think eh?
Hmm...does that mean you're a tremendous perv, then?(grizzled internet vet) I've seen worse (/grizzled internet vet)
Why yes. Yes it does.Hmm...does that mean you're a tremendous perv, then?
Since I wrote that the number of rejected spammers is almost 50. Keeping my fingers crossed.Just did a few behind the scenes changes.
Since I loaded these about 1/2 hour ago, we've blocked 5 registrations for spam. I'm keeping my eye on it, but on Xenforo.com there's a thread that started Saturday and is 15 pages long. This thread is about how a hacker/scammer group called XRUMER has written a script to get past Xenforo spam controls. They then published a list of a couple thousand Xenforo sites and started hammering them. It's not just us.
- I turned back on registration.
- I added something called KeyCapture, that makes you have to complete a picture to register.
- Added something called XenUtils that checks out Askimet & other spam sites & will refuse registration if there are hits.
But let's see if we have this under control.