Spammery Infestation!

[Tach Deneva]

How are all those spammers getting in here? They're almost as bad as the bots in GW2!

[Hammer]

they are humans, so there is not much to do about them unless someone wants to volunteer to administer all the forum registration requests.

[Tach Deneva]

When I see a name like 'aggdh8dgvdf' and 'wangjingjhg' I figure there's a spammer behind it, human or otherwise. 'zhengtiegu' on the other hand, is not as obvious, although he, she, or it has indeed turned out to be another spammer. How does the registration process work? It's been so long since I registered, I don't remember...

Is there any way to limit registration to people who are invited by existing members?

[Hammer]

we could, but it would be manual. and we then run the risk of not letting people register that genuinely want to join up and game with us.

during registration, the person has to answer a fill in the blank question. this prevents all bots, but the answers are simple enough for humans.

[Softball]

I say implement that feature. If someone wants to join the forums, we can let you know about it; it will most likely be someone we know. This spam is getting ridiculous... I guess I'll go unsubscribe from the forums I am subscribed to. I'm getting emails for every spam post. Grrrr!

[Tach Deneva]

Probably a good idea for everyone here (who isn't a spammer, that is) to hide their email address and/or other contact information from other members, so these spammer guys can't get it. They'll spam you directly if they can AND they will try to use your email address to hack your game accounts.

[Softball]

I don't think your email address is revealed here. As a precaution, I changed my email listed here to my Nyms.net account. Forced me to re-activate my account, no big though.

Hammer, how about using a Captcha box for new accounts? I see you have a mathmatical equation in place, but it looks like that is static and I would think could easly be bypassed with a script / macro.

Im guessing these are not legit accounts:
88 aghtqsmkn2 Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:50 am 0
89 mbt8c4cshoes Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:34 am 0
90 login2102 Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:34 pm 0
91 sgbizg778 Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:35 am 1
92 ymkgjy020 Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:52 am 1
93 xneeyw482 Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:33 pm 1
94 linbiao25 Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:12 pm 0
95 aiaicai Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:02 am 0
96 wangjingjhg Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:47 am 0
97 leathervc Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:28 pm 0
98 delly68691 Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:37 am 0
99 quzhidian Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:11 pm 0
100 iokerr406 Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:12 pm 0
101 wtrcdp466 Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:41 pm 1
102 wrvnyp803 Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:54 pm 0
103 gicilp945 Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:46 pm 1
104 tayznb432 Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:50 pm 2
105 ekljzj842 Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:56 pm 2
106 vewjva908 Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:31 pm 1
107 foctqy854 Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:08 pm 2
108 ezwaus446 Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:13 pm 2
109 jvbuld648 Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:24 pm 0
110 wykkvw972 Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:29 pm 2
111 yynpuw369 Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:02 pm 2
112 faojhg053 Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:15 pm 4
113 pfuvbv698 Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:22 pm 2
114 mayelh676 Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:33 pm 0
115 ymxtqu215 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:04 pm 2
116 hwkceo799 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:09 pm 2
117 aabmco990 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:15 pm 4
118 nzhruf209 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:19 pm 2
119 lyxago761 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:19 pm 2
120 jersey84b Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:24 pm 0
121 hmzqvj858 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:34 pm 4
122 fmmqbz069 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:39 pm 2
123 yzjbfp843 Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:46 pm 0
124 dpcxry051 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:01 am 1
125 whefbc814 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:14 am 2
126 bolukh446 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:14 am 2
127 ilzzoc896 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:25 am 0
128 zavlpt424 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:37 am 0
129 drprep467 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:38 am 0
130 qpulzt479 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:45 am 4
131 bbatqx595 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:48 am 0
132 qnjfny947 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:55 am 2
133 tddkrt398 Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:56 am 2
134 sijie432 Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:41 am 0
135 qrliaf564 Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:45 am 2
136 aiouyhtn210 Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:45 am 0
137 affdh9asf Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:49 am 0
138 wpbfzs075 Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:29 am 2
139 efytmb127 Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:14 am 0

[Tach Deneva]

Gonna go out on a limb and say those guys are NOT Real Life Gamers!

Something I was wondering - would it be possible to make the entire forum private - or 'read only' with no posting privileges - with the exception of a New Members area in which any actual Real Life Gamers could introduce themselves? Once they've established their bona fides, then you could let 'em in to the (queue spooky music)...

(lightning flash/thunder crash)

...Inner Sanctum.

[Softball]

And now just about every forum has a spam post. WEEEE!!!

[PanzerMeyer]

Forum spammers need to be shot. I frequent the Bear McCreary website forums and those get filled by stupid spam posts as well.

[Softball]

/agree... MFers need to die! Jeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....\

Hammer? Help!!

[Hammer]

i was basically out last night, and they struck. just now finished cleaning them up. i am going to disable self registration until i get something else figured out, or just some time goes by and they forget about us.

captcha does not work, bots/scripts have cracked it. there are way more questions than just a mathematical problem. that is just the one you got when you tested. ;) the setup now ensures it is a human registering. there are just a lot of humans doing spam now.

[Softball]

Thanks a million Hammer.

[Tach Deneva]

From the darkest depths of Spamdor they came!



Alas! Could this be the end for the good people of RLG Land?



Then a mighty hero arose!



And the peasants rejoiced!



Hammer! Hammer! Hammer!

[PanzerMeyer]

there are just a lot of humans doing spam now.

That's what happens when you have over 12 million unemployed!


Thanks for the clean up Hammer.

[Tach Deneva]

Alert! Alert!

We've still got one spamming in the Star Trek Online and Lord of the Rings Online sections!

Looks like he joined October 18th: aghtqsmkn2

[Hammer]

yes, and sat quite in a dark corner until now. there may be a few others like that, but as of last night all registrations have to be approved by me.

[Hammer]

well, there were 21 more like that. they are gone now.