Spam?

It appears we have a "Spammer" or two on this forum.

• I've added a report icon ...Please report any suspicious activity so that I can address the issue with the user.
  
• I created a "Guest Lounge" to prevent guests from posting in "Forum Updates...Help...Comments & Suggestions".
  
• I've "Banned" 3 users...I think it's the same person.

This recent spam activity has forced me to approve all members before activation can occur.

~Focker
Forum Administrator

Oh Hell Focker, admit it, you just don't like 'ese' - like Vietnamese?

Or you're not too fond of Jaccuzi's? Here's a novel idea: line one with a buxom blonde, and find out who's getting wet first

I actually did click that Q.M.inTriangle-thingy today, on some spamming music thread, but it only goes to a normal reply-thingy without the link embedded in it..... so I gave it a skip.
Besides, I thought I maybe ran the risk of being considered pestering you, but now that you ask...... I will next time.
Good riddens though, and 'approving' is a good idea.

BuRP wrote:I actually did click that Q.M.inTriangle-thingy today, on some spamming music thread, but it only goes to a normal reply-thingy without the link embedded in it..... so I gave it a skip.

By clicking the report icon...I get a msg emailed to me with a link to the post in question.

I might have to give a few of you a Spam Police title if you start catching offenders.

They are annoying Focker to say the least, what secrity does the forums have @ the front end during registration to stop bots ?.....whatever it is it don't work
They are also attacking other forums as well.....mindless morons who write and use these bot

One has to enter the encryption code to finalize the confirmation process. I believe the perp is not a bot but a jerk who wants waste our time.

I've seen a good forum going to Oblivia due to spammers, porn in this case. Just add bad policing and one ends up with a bit of a different content, and next see the complaints raining in & the actual members staying away.

Isn't there an email-bombardment site or something one can 'give' email-addresses to? My thinking is, "If you spam us we'll pass on your Eddress to XYZ...", in doing so filling your Inbox with Viagra, Jacuzzi's, Enlargements and why.
Mind you, maybe I should re-register under a different name, faking location 'Vietnam'......

Focker wrote:One has to enter the encryption code to finalize the confirmation process. I believe the perp is not a bot but a jerk who wants waste our time.

Seen some other sites using several images with a question like which of these are motorbikes....you have to select them correctly to get past the registration page ?, but like most things it's probably difficult to add to the existing forum .
I say tie them to the ground and we run them over with our pigs ?.