Intresting surge in new "Users"

[Ammianus]

It's worrisome because their nefarious activities may impact this forum.
My ignore list is gigantic! Hopefully our system administrator can take immediate action to delete this throng and shut down their activities.

[General Lee]

I hate how intelligent spammers have gotten. And I'm told that, for the most part, it's the work of bots and not actual human programmers.

[Chris Brantley]

A new trick by the spammers I'm afraid. All deleted now..but will have to keep a close eye on new registrations until I can find a new tech solution. Appreciate all the notices of nefarity.

[David Constable]

Originally Posted by General Lee

I hate how intelligent spammers have gotten. And I'm told that, for the most part, it's the work of bots and not actual human programmers.

Humans write programmes for learning bots, and that is what makes it difficult. So a bot learns from WHEN being turned on, and it learns by web site as well, but checks what works on one site with all, THAT WAY it LEARNS the different systems ideas work with.

It is like doing code breaking.

David Constable

[Adrian Bryan]

Why the hell can't these people turn there hand to doing something good! instead of trying to mess things up for other people all the bloody time!!

[Haardrada]

Can't these idiots be reported to some net policing body in the U.S. and be blocked? Or how about leaving feedback on the sites they are selling from saying how useless the items are they are trying to sell?

[Bardolph]

I usually check the "whois" on the links they post, if they are using a US based webhost like GoDaddy I report them to the webhost.

http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Just use the domain name, leave off the www

For instance, the current idiot is spamming for several sites, one of them, milliontalks DOT com is hosted by DirectNIC, here is their spam reporting email address: abuse@directnic.com
from this page: http://www.directnic.com/help/faq/?question_id=526

One of the others I checked was harmonycentral DOT com, hosted by PSI-USA Inc., which of course is located in Germany...

Also useful is the ICANN complaint form, for reporting the registrars that host spammers:
http://reports.internic.net/cgi/regi...lem-report.cgi

Now whether or not it actually does any good is open to question. I think GoDaddy has a big enough profile they will do something, these smaller companies are less likely to care as long as they are getting paid. If ICANN pulls their accreditation though then they have a big problem.

[timurilank]

But why did they select 2.2.+ to start? I would have thought HOTT.