Moderators (requests and notices)

What was s/he doing? Being nosey.

Bought something on eBay for ~£160 trying to flip for ~£400 whilst additionally spamming as it's advertised on other sites too like Pedal Room.

I banned on the basis of spammer... but found the flipping to be pretty bad given that the price was more than doubled.

Ta

Any reason why my classified post has no views after 14 hours. Is it even listed? Slightly confused and wondering if I need to be approved or something...

Just realised this is a thread for mods to post, not for me to ask questions. Sorry (noob).

Have a look now; I think it only updates views when you get a reply.

"Views" are cached... any update to the listing (an edit) or a reply to the listing will flush the cache and show the latest number.

https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/116491/

Spam user

Yeah, family member of the company that was advertised.

Was that easy info to find?
makes mental note to never annoy Velocio

Yes.

Combination of:

• DNS whois records (name, address and phone of the person who registered the domain)
  
• the email address of the spammer
  
• the IP address to give confidence that the source was geographically close to the addresses identified
  
  

I spotted the shared surname of the whois and the spammer straight away, so didn't look further after having that.

Typically I'd look at Company House data too, and any office locations, or start Googling the email addresses or phone numbers.

But meh, figured it out in a few seconds and I'm lazy.

bossman, a friend of mine wants to access luffguss from india but is getting this:

The owner of this website (http://www.lfgss.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (IN) from accessing this website.

Ah yeah we're blocked in India. Proxy?

Was that possibly due to the guru spam explosion of 2016?

Any chance this mcr bike tag spoiler could be erased? (Post not user, obv).

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13439109/

We are blocked in India.

But it's trivial to bypass, just use a VPN.

And yes, it's a spam problem. Anywhere from between 50-150 spam attempts per day from India.

The number of real users there is tiny... 1 or 2... so at the time I did it I recommended VPN. It's trivially bypassable using a VPN because I'm not a huge fan of blocking things.

Deliveroo apostle.
https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/116823/

Should be in wanted ads not for sale

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/299784/#comment13456340

Duplicate thread (and both in the wrong sub-forums) and on eBay:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/299792/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/299795/

@Velocio

Looks like spam:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/299833/

3 Spammers banned and content deleted.

^ & ^^ & ^^^^

Moved to wanted.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/300135/#comment13468021

Noticed we've been getting an awful lot of people posting in General who should be posting in Classifieds.

Appeared to be an idiot... I've deleted the posts rather than moved them to not encourage that form of idiocy (he had also duplicated the posts, and was being more than a little naive about the things he was posting).

Just re-confirming that we are in fact, the internet's friendliest forum.

Hello

Wondering what was going on, could not get on to the site. Even is it up site said the sever wasn't responding.

EDIT - Just one laptop win 10 firefox, all up to date. Running ad blocker and last pass.

Astroturfing?

https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/117148/