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Spammers from hell(mainly from Russia and China)

Post11 Jul 2009, 01:58

Don't know if any of you caught this, but over the last 24 hours or so, our membership went up and down in a crazy fashion. When I got up this morning there were 19 new accounts to be approved :eek: - most had websites connected to them for porn or viagra or something similarly off-topic(for this site). After deleting all but one(that person has actually made one post), I made a small change to the registration process but [lazily] !@@! left in some wording that was part of the anti-spam "mod" that I had applied to the site months ago. Another 8 drifted in over the next 5-6 hours. Growing weary, I went full tilt on changing it 4 hours ago - peace has resumed for now. ;*

Funny, all had set Basque for their board language. Even the supposedly Chinese ones.
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Nov. 2022 - back in business!! BItter divorce is in home stretch, come grabs some great deals, I had to open the safe . . . damn attorneys. piss.
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Re: Spammers from hell(mainly from Russia and China)

Post11 Jul 2009, 11:10

retroleds wrote:Funny, all had set Basque for their board language. Even the supposedly Chinese ones.

Probably a Basque underground cyber terrorist group ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4RtFmiz0EA 8-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Dub_Foundation
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Re: Spammers from hell(mainly from Russia and China)

Post11 Jul 2009, 16:13

rewolf wrote:
retroleds wrote:Funny, all had set Basque for their board language. Even the supposedly Chinese ones.

Probably a Basque underground cyber terrorist group ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4RtFmiz0EA 8-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Dub_Foundation

Just great. Anyway, no new ones this morning.....must be strictly a 'bot driven attack.
http://www.retroleds.com - Sales of vintage LED, LCD, analog watches, parts and gadgets - repair tutorials & tips
Nov. 2022 - back in business!! BItter divorce is in home stretch, come grabs some great deals, I had to open the safe . . . damn attorneys. piss.

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