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triff · #1 01-20-2008, 04:06 PM

I had a spammer sign up on my roleplaying forum and start pm-spamming for her buddist-website.

Any ideas how to avoid this in the future? Is there any way to limit PMs for people who have just signed up?

SGL.

UncoderMom · #2 01-20-2008, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by triff

I had a spammer sign up on my roleplaying forum and start pm-spamming for her buddist-website.

Any ideas how to avoid this in the future? Is there any way to limit PMs for people who have just signed up?

SGL.

I had a spammer do this too.. same spammer.. buddist website. I reported them to all the free sites but only one of the free sites removed them.. I contacted the server hosts that hosts the ip. They gave me that not our ip crap... when whois says it is.

The spammer sent out 1800 pms. I have my pms set to max 20 at a time. They are obviously using software to auto send them.. I doubt anyone would send 20 out at a time.. and do it in a mater of hours. Possibly minutes. I still have no clue how they did it.

#3 01-20-2008, 04:22 PM

there is some hacks that give permission to PM only after X posts... i suppose there is some others.

UncoderMom · #4 01-20-2008, 04:55 PM

Great idea nex!

#5 01-20-2008, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by UncoderMom

The spammer sent out 1800 pms. I have my pms set to max 20 at a time. They are obviously using software to auto send them.. I doubt anyone would send 20 out at a time.. and do it in a mater of hours. Possibly minutes. I still have no clue how they did it.

I could do it in less than 30 seconds... the crawler make a list of the usernames of your site by visiting your Memberlist... then the autoscript push the pms in the system... at first a test to see how many and in what delay, and then automate the process to push them without anyother help.

btw, having a limit for the new members is good, it force the spammers to chat on the forum... usually they are bored after 10 posts...

triff · #6 01-20-2008, 05:22 PM

Okay, found the hack. Thanks a lot guys! :-)

SGL.

#7 01-20-2008, 05:44 PM

great, a rare user who can use the search engine properly..

UncoderMom · #8 01-20-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by nexialys

great, a rare user who can use the search engine properly..

OT.. Nex.. Is there a translator for your blog!!

I cant read it!!!! *$%&@#!

cjmacd · #9 03-16-2008, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by triff

Okay, found the hack. Thanks a lot guys! :-)

SGL.

I've been searching the forum for this hack would you mind posting the link to it?

had the exact same spammer do this to a clients forum.

Thanks

penagate · #10 03-16-2008, 04:50 AM

You do not need a hack to do this.

Copy the default "Registered Users" usergroup into another group (say "Fully Registered").

Now set the "Maximum Recipients to Send PMs at a time" permission on the Registered Users group to zero to disable sending PMs.

Add a promotion to upgrade users from Registered to Fully Registered at X number of posts.

You may also want to rename "Registered" to "Newly Registered" or so.

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