Mail.ru, ukr.net and Yandex.com email accounts banned

This effort from Velocio, combined with the charity donation and upcoming charity tithe has made me feel very happy to donate again.

Who's with me?

The site is worth it, and this thread goes to show how, if it wasn't managed so well it could quite easily become somewhere very much less attractive to spend time.

Apart from a job well done Sir, fascinating insight into the problems of orchestrated spamming.

Hmm, moved target again...

If you get an email like this:

Someone has tried to log into your account on London Fixed-gear and Single-speed with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 86.166.201.164

All the best,
London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Then be aware that spammers have shifted to trying to guess passwords.

If you have a shit password, something that is a dictionary word or really simple... like 123456, Password, etc... then please change it.

If as a result of your shit password your account is used to post spam, this will not prevent your account being banned for that spam.

Best thing for you to do: Change your password if it's simple or guessable. If it's already a good password, then you need do nothing at all :)

are you the real velocio or the spammer trying to trick us,,,,,,,,,,,, oh no, what are we gonna do.

I ban people, spammers wouldn't do that ;)

You should see the stats over here: http://stopforumspam.com/

1.7m spammer accounts get checked every time someone registers, and because new accounts are created by the spammers every time a forum admin detects one they register it on that site and then it's blocked from all forums.

We currently have 1752767 spammer records in our database.

from a boffin point of view it must be fun outwitting them. in a way its a techy game, no?

Well it's a bit like trying to out-smart dopers in sport... the fact is that they're ahead of the game and until detected and people know how to detect them you can't catch more of them.

However... once you know how to detect them, it's about sharing the knowledge far and wide so more get detected. And that's what this is.

As games go, this is a losing one. But know that other site admins won't be able to be as quick to react as I might be able to, or that they may not know how to, means that we should be a less attractive target. We'll lose a bit less than other forums might.

As part of the registration process why don't you generate two images, one from bike porn, the other from anti-porn, then ask the prospective registree to put them in the correct categories?

I'd like to see a script do that.

You should see the stats over here: http://stopforumspam.com/

1.7m spammer accounts get checked every time someone registers, and because new accounts are created by the spammers every time a forum admin detects one they register it on that site and then it's blocked from all forums.

How big does the database of spammers have to get for this to be impractical due to lag of iterating through all the known spammers? Or is this not a problem until the DB is huge?

LMAO... that sounds good actually.

hot-or-not for bikes. If someone scores the wrong end of the scale, deny access ;)

I love the idea of a forum for forum admins.

How big does the database of spammers have to get for this to be impractical due to lag of iterating through all the known spammers? Or is this not a problem until the DB is huge?

It's an interesting question, and the answer would be that it couldn't get too big to be impractical.

There are only a few search fields (username, IP address, email) and all could be hashed into single column PK tables that are partitioned by hash over multiple nodes.

So even without a map-reduce solution you could scale a SQL database up to billions of records providing you can afford enough nodes. Thankfully on that note an ISP is donating the machines for this, and to be honest 1.7 million entries is a small database... some of the LFGSS tables are way larger (did I ever tell the story of how the LFGSS backup passed 40GB last month and required me to upgrade servers on Christmas Eve?... LFGSS is roughly 6m rows of data in 180 database tables.).

I love the idea of a forum for forum admins.

http://www.theadminzone.com/

Including a private area for admins of boards with over 1m posts (I'm on there of course, have been for almost a decade thanks to the one I ran before too).

dammitt a few much liked and legitimate forumers would get that A or B question wrong. bit like driving, after a while you would need to be reprogrammed to pass the test again :-(

Part of the fun- if you got it wrong then you'd be back to viewing as a guest for say 12 hours, then you could try again.

The idea being that you could get more of the thought process of the site during that time.

http://www.theadminzone.com/

Including a private area for admins of boards with over 1m posts (I'm on there of course, have been for almost a decade thanks to the one I ran before too).

So, who is the admin of all the admins?

Part of the fun- if you got it wrong then you'd be back to viewing as a guest for say 12 hours, then you could try again.

The idea being that you could get more of the thought process of the site during that time.

A singlespeed/fixed related question would cut down automated things though wouldn't it?

Or a 'bike capchthing' with a different bike or bike part you have to name to get in!

So, who is the admin of all the admins?

Hippy, FACT.

So, who is the admin of all the admins?

yep, spill the beans, dk

yep, spill the beans, dk

YouTube - We're not Worthy!!!!

the first rule of admin club...

presumably:

1)Administrate.