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Post by THE LEVIATHAN on Aug 3, 2014 14:24:03 GMT -8
A spam bot has been lurking around some proboards forums (maybe jcink as well) and was posting crap in the cbox. They're going by the name "NOT A SPAMMER". Even though I had the whole "must register before posting" for the site's cbox I help run, they still managed to post meaning this isn't a bot and is an actual person .. with no life.
Just be on the look out and permaban the person.
PM me for the IP if you want to take counter measures before they strike.
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Post by Lyro on Aug 3, 2014 16:11:34 GMT -8
This spam bot has recently taken the name of POPPLE and currently spamming sites with links to our RP site Pokemon EPOCH.
I am an admin of this site and would like to make it known that EPOCH is not by any means affiliated with this person and does not approve of their behavior. We deeply apologize for any trouble they cause on your sites. We have no idea what could have sparked this outbreak. The POPPLE spamming sites is not the same Popple from our staff team.
If you need their IP Address to ban in advance, I can provide it for you in PMs as well.
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Post by Lyro on Aug 3, 2014 16:30:58 GMT -8
The spammer is aware that many people are now noticing it and recognizing it as a problem and will try to present themselves as a nice and concerned person about this matter but do not trust them. Popple of EPOCH is not moving from our site at the moment so if you see any Popple anywhere, it is not our fellow admin and you are free to ban them on sight.
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Post by sairri on Aug 3, 2014 17:47:39 GMT -8
jesus christ this dude really needs a life
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Post by Saska on Aug 4, 2014 8:12:47 GMT -8
I didn't manage to catch the incident, but he showed up on Illyria sometimes this morning (about 3 hours ago or so) asking about our pop-out cbox code and spamming the link to a site. I'll have to ask my mod to confirm what site (luckily she was around) but he was going by the name Strider, not Poppy.
Or, at least, I'm assuming it's the same guy. I'll be able to snag the IP from my cbox control panel (required registered names, woohoo!) so if anybody wants to crosscheck it drop me a PM.
I wonder if it's the same guy from about a year ago doing it then? I remember that guy was affiliate-hopping and posting random links (one of them was a SAO site, that much I remember, because I recall going to the site and actually letting the admins there know what was going on).
UPDATE: He also hit my sister site, Tales of Unity, though I'm the one with their premium cbox so I was able to fix that. They didn't hit the Chatango box, however, just the regular cbox. I managed to snag the IP from that as well. He didn't use a specific name on Unity but he was going by "Strider@Pokemon Epoch" on Illyria (so I'm guessing it was Epoch's link he was tossing around). I managed to crosscheck the IPs and they were the same, though. Doesn't seem to be a proxy.
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Post by shado on Aug 4, 2014 8:39:21 GMT -8
I sent an email regarding the spammer and their IP Address to CBox admins yesterday, hopefully they can do something to restrict this user's access since it goes against most TOS for chatbox services.
The spammer also hit up a site and spammed both their chatango boxes (IC and OOC) so I also sent in an impersonation/spamming report to Chatango this morning regarding the situation with the IP Address. It, too, goes against their TOS and I believe somewhere in there it said something about revoking posting rights for recurrent abusers.
Again, however, I am not sure if the companies will be willing to block this IP globally through their respective hosts, but maybe they can give us some insight in improving the situation.
Hopefully this can be resolved quickly for the sake of the site and the members that this spammer is targeting.
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Post by BOU on Aug 4, 2014 9:28:25 GMT -8
Hey there guys I actually know a lot about the spammer! They go by stryker/striker on most sites and she has a habit of trying to lure underage members of sites into her camshow! She's been banned from a lot of sites for it though a couple of sites have just let her run through with it. Please look out for your younger members whenever this person is around.
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Post by Saska on Aug 4, 2014 10:48:03 GMT -8
They've also been hitting resource sites, it seems -- I logged on to BTN and they'd gone into the cbox there, lol.
I fail to understand why people have so little lives that they'd even bother doing this.
Also @bou-Guest: Given the nature of what the spammer is doing, I'm relatively sure they're not related. It's likely someone with a grudge against Epoch who just wants to make their site and members look bad (So far it appears they've used 3 different member names, 1 staffer and 1 member that I happened to catch when passing by). Not sure if the name they used on Illyria was the same, but they did use Popple's and Taki's names I believe.
If they were trying to lure people, they wouldn't be posting links to an arbitrary site. They're not actually joining the site, just trying to make the place look terrible, which given the general rules across RP sites isn't that hard when you're advertising in the cbox. Fortunately we've got resource sites to band together against all that, lol.
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Post by Lyro on Aug 4, 2014 13:47:28 GMT -8
Thank you all so much for the updates regarding this spammer. It should be safe to assume that anyone that claims to represent EPOCH that is spamming your cboxes is by no means affiliated with us. Strider hasn't even been on our site in ages, and Teki / Taki has been a long standing member who has no reason to be doing this either.
There has been no dramatic explosions on the site as of late, so whoever is doing this has either held the grudge for a long period of time or is just randomly targeting EPOCH by lolwhy not?
I tried to post up a thread regarding the spammer on a few resource sites, so hopefully that should get the word out about this person. An extra thank you to Shado for the effort he's putting into helping us out with this problem.
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Post by Lyro on Aug 4, 2014 18:05:11 GMT -8
Hey guys, Lyro here with another update regarding the spammer.
We got a recent complaint that the person is now impersonating staff members of the sites they spam EPOCH's link on. However, it is entirely possible for them to begin spamming under the guise of normal members as well, so proceed with caution.
If you see a staff member or other member of your forum suddenly posting repeatedly a link to EPOCH and demonstrating a different typing style from usual, it is most likely the spammer striking again. Temporarily switching cboxes to requiring login with passwords could help with preventing this kind of situation. You'll know it is an impersonator as the name will have to be different from the person's usual name.
I would appreciate if you guys spread a warning to other forums about the spammer. I know not all RP communities check Gangnam Style or look around for these kind of threads, and I have seen a few sites he hit assume that EPOCH was involved with this terrible behavior. I just wish to stress that EPOCH does not promote or affiliate with them at all.
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Aug 4, 2014 18:24:29 GMT -8
stickied because I can't make threads an announcement
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Post by guyy on Feb 9, 2016 18:20:43 GMT -8
A spam bot has been lurking around some proboards forums (maybe jcink as well) and was posting crap in the cbox. They're going by the name "NOT A SPAMMER". Even though I had the whole "must register before posting" for the site's cbox I help run, they still managed to post meaning this isn't a bot and is an actual person .. with no life.
Just be on the look out and permaban the person.
PM me for the IP if you want to take counter measures before they strike.
spam bot's come to proboard's, i didnt know this....thought they only did like PHP forums or domain names...
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