Private message spam

But... if these people are real guys subscribing to the forum... what could stop them?

Any security measure would also discourage "real" users, as happens with game copy protections.

The only thing i can think of, is prohibiting for example links from users with < 10 posts;
I mean, if they can't have links to anything in the messages or in the signature, their spam is just pointless

PS: How their activity can make money? Nobody on these forum could have clicked on those links, because totally off-target and suspicious... why they found useful to pay a person to spam?

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:23 pm

And a new one.

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/profile.ph ... le&u=19942

Post by **Kencho** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:29 pm

Seems runescapewhatever wasn't a safe site for him

darke · Post by **darke** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:19 am

_tommo_ wrote:PS: How their activity can make money? Nobody on these forum could have clicked on those links, because totally off-target and suspicious... why they found useful to pay a person to spam?

It's not just this forum they're hitting. Their software probably just does something like google and find any phpbb forums. Then tries to create an account, and toss a few spams in.

If the links are found, it doesn't cost them anything since it's all either automated, or done by low cost workers.

If the links aren't found it boosts the site's search rankings when search engines crawl them, so when people do want some gold/whatever and do a search in google they get their site close to the top.

Plus they probably will hit a few forums, where there are people who will click the links. After all, spammers send out millions of email messages every minute for random pills and other crap, and there are enough people in the world who will go "oh, I want some of that" and buy something off them to make it profitable.

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:55 pm

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=46705

pintodragon · Post by **pintodragon** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:02 am

User perfect1 is posting spam on Help.

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:58 am

pintodragon wrote:User perfect1 is posting spam on Help.

Try using the 'report' button (that exclamation mark thing above a post).

xadhoom · Post by **xadhoom** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:47 am

wow gold bot

http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47022

Post by **spacegaier** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:52 pm

Every post has this nice exclamation mark, so you don't need to post here anymore, but instead just klick on this little button and the post gets marked to be checked by a mod/admin.

Post by **xavier** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:10 pm

Good point, locking now.

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