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Citizens off WME, it has come to my attention that some of you have been receiving spambot PMs. Gratefully we have been excising them as they appear. We need your help. If possible, could people post names and circumstances of spam here since some people do not report flagrant pms and simply delete them. This allows the bot to remain rampant and that's not acceptable.

Thank you,
J

EDIT: Leily87 and Ugis87 flagged as spambots.

This post has been edited by The J on Jun 9 2010, 03:19 PM

ah i was about to say i got a spam PM im sure cos i didnt recognise the user ID. then i went to check it and i guess you got rid of it already

from Leily87 yeah.

Yeah i got PM and opened it, nothing there =/

It hit both the forums. Please see this thread on IDW for referrence: http://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=73...dpost&p=1160215

Banned members and guests aren't allowed to read it.

Nevermind; think I saw it when I went to the main forum page.

This post has been edited by ImmortalDrifter on Jun 9 2010, 05:31 PM

First that you were banned is not my f@$^@#$^g problem...

second off. Sorry, I think this one deals with the same situation and may be viewable. http://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=41120

The information within essentially details the events of the spambot attacks through PM culminating in the termination and deletion of aforementioned abberrations.

Anyway, I've already posted a screen cap of the message, I got, on Random.

I didn't check out the site but I suspect a virus.

WME has been hit slightly more severe. 3700 members were spammed by this spambot. On IDW, 6700 members were hit, but consider IDW has 13000 members, 6700 is only half, whereas WME has only 5000 members, 3700 members out of 5000 is a bigger ratio. Either way, everything has been cleared up along with the new PM notification as well.

However, the Emails that were sent out can not be unsent. So I apologize in advanced for any troubles this may caused you.

Do a Google search this name and you will realize this Leily87 is a new bot that's going around: http://www.google.com/search?q=Leily87 Only 100 results so far, and we are one of the first couple hundred forums that are being hit on the Internet.

I will have you thinking that I think some members has been affected with this because in my PM Inbox, our regulars have been pm'ing me with the same message as to what Leily87 has said.

I think we got another one.
http://wmexpressway.net/index.php?showuser=7042

Took care of them.

- RemieGino14 -

damn spammers...

This post has been edited by ATRUM_Neto on Jul 3 2010, 11:17 PM

Usually spambots cant get into a forum if email verification is on. But nowadays, spam bots are getting more and more clever

Id suggest adding a secondary mandatory captcha to the registration such as:

a. name your favorite wangan maximum character?
b. which arcade do you play wangan maximum tune?
(favorite car wouldnt be a good idea, since the filter of car makes would be bypassed by the spam bot)

this way it could lessen the growing number of bots autoregging

This post has been edited by Modoki on Aug 4 2010, 09:04 AM

Let's take those two examples into consideration. Quite a lot of people don't actually play the actual game. A lot of people joined this forum to talk about real automotive related activities.

Although that is a good idea.

Captcha when you send PM



Also for security, features, stability and more, upgrade to IPB 3.0 instead of 2

Just do a google "IPB 3.0 vs IPB 2.0"

There's a new EASY way to deploy it, and a VERY EASY way to register "Connect with Facebook"


any more questions MSN/facebook me.


This post has been edited by WRX22B1998 on Aug 4 2010, 05:04 PM

*COUGH*

http://wmexpressway.net/index.php?act=donate

Yeah if I had money MYSELF I would then maybe consider donating it. Until then...

http://wmexpressway.net/index.php?showuser=7195

ITSATRAP

over 377 days old. but its still on topic.

i think we need to make another option when signing up for accounts because these spambots seem to be around more and more lately :/

anyone else care to share their thoughts?

This post has been edited by WRX22B1998 on Aug 29 2011, 03:50 AM