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Posted by StereoPrincess on Aug-06-2010 12:09:

Whoa! Spam overload!

How does spam even work on forums?

Are those bot accounts or are people's accounts taken over?

Posted by ChemEnhanced on Aug-06-2010 12:14:

I don't see any spam...I think you are seeing things

Posted by CAKE on Aug-06-2010 12:15:

Posted by Swamper on Aug-06-2010 12:15:

Sorted

Posted by StereoPrincess on Aug-06-2010 12:26:

yeah. it's gone but how does it work?

i thought you had to confirm you are a real person before posting?

Posted by Spam on Aug-06-2010 18:02:

You can set up programs to deal with the "real person" tests.

Unless Swamper and the other Mods wanted to personally e-mail every single new account, it would be very hard to stop every bot in the system.

Also.

Posted by CAKE on Aug-06-2010 18:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Spam

Your a Spam!

Posted by Spam on Aug-06-2010 19:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Djsketchbag
Your a Spam!

No you.

Posted by WittyHandle on Aug-06-2010 20:12:

Anyone else notice tons of spam from people with Hotmail addresses? Looks like lots of accounts got hacked and they're being used to sell health pills.

Posted by jad on Aug-06-2010 23:36:

quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
Anyone else notice tons of spam from people with Hotmail addresses? Looks like lots of accounts got hacked and they're being used to sell health pills.

Ye I've gotten those before. Fucking Viagra. Maybe I'd be a little more interested in opening them once I hit 60 (hopefully later than that). They try to trick you into opening their e-mails by using normal subject titles. The best thing to do is to mark them as phishing scam.