Yesterdays Crypto Scammer

[trog]

The scum who joined and posted the now removed Crypto Hacker post yesterday is here now viewing threads. WHY? Has just their scam post and thread been removed but their membership allowed to remain ?

 

[Black Hole]

This should be in the Forum Issues section.

 

[trog]

Move it where you want to just provide an answer please.

 

[Black Hole]

I don't have powers to move it or answer it.

 

[trog]

I don't have powers to move it or answer it.

That was not aimed at you, I see Martin Liddle was here but gone now.

 

[Brian]

The scum who joined and posted the now removed Crypto Hacker post yesterday is here now viewing threads. WHY? Has just their scam post and thread been removed but their membership allowed to remain ?

The thread was deleted, and the member was banned.

 

[prpr]

Is it not possible to have to approve new user accounts and/or initial posts and Profile details from same?

 

[trog]

The thread was deleted, and the member was banned.

How were they able to log in and return today then?

 

[EEPhil]

Was it my imagination or where there two different new users posting (similar?) rubbish yesterday? I thought I saw one spam posting which vanished later and then even later a similar (?) post appeared by a different user.

 

[trog]

Was it my imagination or where there two different new users posting (similar?) rubbish yesterday? I thought I saw one spam posting which vanished later and then even later a similar (?) post appeared by a different user.

Yes there was 2, the first was all over the internet with the same type of crypto hacker scam but it was the second one that returned today.

 

[Brian]

Is it not possible to have to approve new user accounts and/or initial posts and Profile details from same?

If the new user accounts are flagged by Stop Forum Spam, they go into the approval queue, which I process several times a day.

Unfortunately, many new users don’t get automatically flagged, and they slip through the process.

When I’m on the forum, I look at the users online, and perform checks on suspicious looking account names, and get quite a few in that way and run them through the spam process, which checks for other users with the same IP address, and can also ban them.

There are probably additional settings in the admin control panel that will require all new user accounts to be manually approved, but I don’t have the necessary permissions to access them.

 

[prpr]

There are probably additional settings in the admin control panel that will require all new user accounts to be manually approved, but I don’t have the necessary permissions to access them.

Have you asked, or is it a lost cause?

 

[EEPhil]

Another in the same family of crypto-spam posted by a new user very early this morning.

 

[Brian]

Another in the same family of crypto-spam posted by a new user very early this morning.

This has now been dealt with.

 

[MymsMan]

If the new user accounts are flagged by Stop Forum Spam, they go into the approval queue, which I process several times a day.

Unfortunately, many new users don’t get automatically flagged, and they slip through the process.

When I’m on the forum, I look at the users online, and perform checks on suspicious looking account names, and get quite a few in that way and run them through the spam process, which checks for other users with the same IP address, and can also ban them.

There are probably additional settings in the admin control panel that will require all new user accounts to be manually approved, but I don’t have the necessary permissions to access them.

While it is annoying that some users do slip through they are fairly rare - hence the reaction when they do

I appreciate the work @Brian does in keeping these forums spam free

 

[Brian]

While it is annoying that some users do slip through they are fairly rare - hence the reaction when they do

I appreciate the work @Brian does in keeping these forums spam free

Thank you. I have made some more adjustments in the admin control panel, these will no doubt mean more work for me, but should help to keep the forum spam free.

Please keep reporting suspicious users, and any spam that does get through, and they will be dealt with.