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Somebody named RobertT just posted some gay porn in my personal message inbox.

Yep...I got the same in my inbox as well.
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It looks like he spammed every single board and inbox. :hatred:

I've reported his posts as well as his s**t that he sent. What kind of worthless assf**ker signs up to a specialized board like this and thinks that they're going to get anyone that is interested in their s**t?

bah, what the f**k is with this spammer? someone destroy him!

As soon as a moderator comes online, they can delete his posts.
Then when Andrew comes back here, he can drop this dumbass into the deny pool and then it's Siyonara sucker!   :teddyr:

My question is how did they get past the captcha for posting PM's.  I know it can be done, but I've never actually seen it happen on a board.

What so no-one else is giving this guy good karma for coming on here?

Nobody??

Looks like I shouldn't be too liberal with the 'report to moderator' button since it looks like you guys have it locked up.  What a shocker... 

First bit of widespread spam I can remember for this site.  Shame it wasn't something easier on the eyes  :twirl:

What an ass...

He did not send a PM porn to me.  It was not a bot and he was solving the CAPTCHA's by hand.

All porn PMs should be removed from everyone's mailbox.  Man, I have got to get out the door to work.

Sorry for that idiot.

JEEZ! I didn"t even get my coffee! Thought I'd say bye a'fore I enter rehab this morn,and POW! I'm looking at some naked asian freak! YIKES!

Though not spam, we did have a seriously agressive troll hit the site almost two years (it was around Christmas 2004). I think some referred to them as the Ash Fanatic, as they seemed to have a fancy for Ash and brought close to 40, if not more, of his threads back to the top of the board by replying to them. They also started their own threads under several different names, then started replying to other threads under member's names claiming to be the troll; which caused just a little bit of confusion until it was realized that the originating IP was different than the actual members IP. And of course since Scott was having to deal with the troll himself, we took liberties in abusing the poor man ourselves while he had his hands full.  :teddyr:

The interesting thing about this spammer (may he rot in hell forever) is that his behavior was more of a troll than a spammer. I remember the user name having been in the new member entry several hours before it all started. Most spammers on forums hit and run, as they just want to hit as many forums as possible, and many of them use spambots. This troll took their time in order to do what they did, and to especially PM a good number, if not all, of the members of the board.

Well, that's enough about him. His kind is too busy anyway inbreeding among themselves.

I agree with Menard here. Not that it matters now but after thinking about it, this guy wasn't here just for spam to get us to go to any site...he had a purpose of causing problems...the lowly troll.

Man, looks like I missed all the fun.

Story of your life (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Tongue/mockery-022.gif)


It was too easy; I couldn't resist. :teddyr:

Yes, yes, A-hem, um, would anyone mind restoring some of his posts to a private message for me? Just for... em... no reason, no reason at all...

Ewwww.....I'm still trying to erase the memory of what he posted.  :buggedout:

(http://www.websmileys.com/sm/obscene/eck13.gif)

Trust me Mr. Briggs...you don't want to see that pic he posted.
It was some sick s**t. 

Reports were submitted to the abuse departments of both untd.com (the network where the spammer posted from) and Yahoo.com (his confirmed email address).  It included a copy of his posts and the letter below.

It is possible his posting was partially automated by software, but it was obviously a human solving the CAPTCHAs and even deciding on some of the subject lines.  My bet is he got tired of solving CAPTCHA's to send private messages.

LETTER TO ABUSE DEPARTMENT
*********************************************

Dear Abuse,

I had a problem with a porn spammer on my forum. He registered at 1807 hours (all times are EST) and started posting around 2244 hours. He posted new threads and also sent private messages to members, posting about 8 topics and sending something like 20 PMs before signing off at 2310 hours.  All of them were the same porn spam, with an image set to display [img] using bbs code tags.  He did vary his subject lines, one was "GODFATHER IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER!!!"  (My website is movie related, as in b-movies and such, not porn.)

The IP used for the postings was:  64.136.26.45
The email address used to confirm the account was:  donald92135@yahoo.com

It does not appear that this was a bot.  The spammer solved a CAPTCHA to register and also one for each and every single PM he sent to members.  He did make mistakes in solving the CAPTCHA's during his sending of PMs.  Here is one of his messages (with the  tags removed.  Again, in every PM and every post a graphic sexual image was displayed of a man, completely naked, with a photoshop-edited penis.

Thank you for your assistance in resolving this matter.

Careful...you may attract the attention of our spammer  :teddyr:

Heh!...Andrew,
I like how you started your e-mail.
"Dear Abuse"
LOL!   :bouncegiggle:

And Menard, I'd completely forgotten about that guy who kept bringing my old threads back.
There's nothing quite like an obsessed fan!

Received a useless reply from Yahoo, saying that they could not investigate the issue since I did not include the email headers.  I described the problem to them again, along with saying that I dislike form letters sent by someone who is not thinking.

United Online asked for second-specific timestamps and I provided them with a capture (zcat and grep) of the logfile with the idiots activity.  I want that more than Yahoo, because United was the ISP.  If it is a home customer, they can cancel the service.  If it was a terminal, then the spammer might suddenly find an extra TOS-related charge to his credit card.

Complaints never seem to really go anywhere, good luck. I used to run a forum on CompuServe back in the day and we were vigilant about reporting and catching adults who were trying to chat sex with minors. Porn was obviously something we kept from the forum message boards, chat rooms and private chats as much as possible. But we started to notice a few sickos who were trying to locate children and have sex chats with them.

Suprisingly, all Compuserve did was ban their account. Days later (sometimes minutes) we'd find the same person with a new handle revisiting the forum with the same MO. That's one thing that sucks about those "free accounts". Sometimes I spent an entire sleepless night zapping the same person over and over who kept re-entering the forum (which made it hard since we were one forum with 4 connecting language forums - we had a message board translater that would translate messages from each forum into the other 3 in th appropriate language)

We had to basically lure him into a chat under false pretenses we were a child, then we sat logging the entire chat. You would think that online companies would act accordingly but it seems like they were very lax about it all. These days with most of them outsourcing to india and most of your complaints ending up in kathmandu you can almost forget about it. Of course it is 2006 now and that kinda thing might land you on Dateline...

Agreed Susan, but I cannot just let it go without trying.  Besides, it takes very little effort on my part.  The email is nearly a form letter and it took about 10 minutes to pull the sections of the server logs that I needed.  10 minutes is misleading, because I was doing a few other tasks at the same time too.

Yahoo has become a cesspool of spam.
The amount of phishers and spammers that prowl Yahoo is unbelievable.
I've tried several times to get Yahoo to do something about it but I always get the same "canned responses" in my inbox.
It's easier to just press the almighty "Delete" button.

I got curious and did some searching.  This same guy has hit quite a few boards over the last year.  Same login and e-mail but different IP addresses.  Shame we can't hunt him down. 
Anyone play Fallout 2?  Theres a random encounter thats "A bunch of unwashed villagers hunting a spammer"
-Ed

HMMM! Either he missed me, or my pm has already been deleted.

By the way, for curiousity's sake, was the man in the photo, Asian? If so, our spammer, seems to be the same guy who hit Gerry's website, a number of weeks ago.

The picture posted was of an Asian man.

I went in the system and deleted all of the PMs he sent.  Many had not been viewed yet.

This is the reply from Untd.com, concerning the spammer:

"We have located the user and terminated his account.  Thanks for your help."


It might be a small thing, but at least something was done.

I think that's great. At least they closed him down and now he has to go through the hassle of signing up somewhere else.
At least they took it seriously enough to do something about it.