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Quote from: botany on September 12, 2015, 10:48:38 PM

Another one
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/avinscratch4-405774

I guess since the account is a newbie, the posts will be limited and can be cleared up much quicker

Nuked. Thanks for report.

botany

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Another one
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/avinscratch4-405774

I guess since the account is a newbie, the posts will be limited and can be cleared up much quicker

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Quote from: seoincorporation on September 08, 2015, 11:22:59 AM

The forum must find the way to stop this kind of scam spam. We don't want to see the cool guys here being scammed. Undecided

The "cool guys" will mostly decide that its too good to be true and move on to another thread. Its mostly newbies and people who mostly do not know money doesn't come for free who get scammed by these type of "scam" sites.

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Quote from: seoincorporation on September 08, 2015, 11:22:59 AM

The forum must find the way to stop this kind of scam spam. We don't want to see the cool guys here being scammed. Undecided

I agree; however, there will be a 2FA option in the new forum so at least that will stop from users' accounts from being hacked (if they use 2FA). This will force the spammers to create a new account, which will have the 6 minute posting limit and thus give the mods more time to delete the threads and nuke them. Of course, they might buy an account and spam with that, but I can't really see any solution for that.

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The forum must find the way to stop this kind of scam spam. We don't want to see the cool guys here being scammed. Undecided

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Quote from: unamis76 on September 08, 2015, 10:18:22 AM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/xeikrystal-553176 Another guy Roll Eyes

Good job unamis76 for reporting these kind of people, seems this account's posts have been cleaned. Mods are fast.

unamis76

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https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/xeikrystal-553176 Another guy Roll Eyes

unamis76

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Quote from: Cyrus on September 06, 2015, 04:23:56 PM

Quote from: unamis76 on September 06, 2015, 09:52:35 AM

I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile,

Handled almost 100 reports before he stopped(left a couple of redirection topics to the trashcan to let users know I'm on it and that we've received eenough reports). He's banned now.

Great!

Quote from: damiano on September 06, 2015, 04:28:14 PM

That guy EmpoEX has been hacked or atleast pretends to be a lot the last couple of months. Do you know if he got his account back after the first time? Good one bringing it to mods attention OP

Thanks, just doing what I can, I'm very frequently around here so not an issue reporting these things ASAP

Quote from: --Encrypted-- on September 07, 2015, 10:54:12 AM

Quote from: unamis76 on September 07, 2015, 10:49:55 AM

Another suspicious user, this time with a different MO.

it's just the usual newbies posting their crap in the wrong section. a mod will nuke it quick.

kinda OT, but I noticed that there's been a LOT of newbies lately. is it just me, or..?

It's already been nuked apparently. Not sure if he was spreading malware too.

There doesn't seem to be more newbies lately (or I simply learned to disregard them, or only see the "wrong" sections Cheesy

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--Encrypted--

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hee-ho.

Quote from: unamis76 on September 07, 2015, 10:49:55 AM

Another suspicious user, this time with a different MO.

it's just the usual newbies posting their crap in the wrong section. a mod will nuke it quick.

kinda OT, but I noticed that there's been a LOT of newbies lately. is it just me, or..?

unamis76

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Another suspicious user, this time with a different MO.

Patejl

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Quote from: --Encrypted-- on September 06, 2015, 09:42:28 AM

Quote from: LMGTFY on September 06, 2015, 09:36:58 AM

Quote from: ?? on ??

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At least this brings some comedy to the issue...

Is it worth continuing to report these posts, or is once enough?

I remember seeing a thread where someone asked the same question (I'm searching for it now). and the answer is yes, once is enough as long as it is just one user spamming non stop all over the place. though there's nothing wrong with reporting all of them.

edit:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/question-about-reporting-a-mass-spammer-1142209

I think it should be limited to just one report though, seems like mods ignore the other reports, I reported like 20 of them and my Correctky reported posts dropped from 100% to 75% or something.

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Quote from: Cyrus on September 06, 2015, 04:35:08 PM

Quote from: damiano on September 06, 2015, 04:28:14 PM

That guy EmpoEX has been hacked or atleast pretends to be a lot the last couple of months. Do you know if he got his account back after the first time? Good one bringing it to mods attention OP

His last post is on Sep 4th, so most likely he's not banned now. Other than that, can't recall any details.

He must have really bad computer security because I'm 99% sure, he has been hacked and spreading that malware at least once in the last 5 weeks. Happen once unlucky, happen twice and somethings not right.

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Quote from: damiano on September 06, 2015, 04:28:14 PM

That guy EmpoEX has been hacked or atleast pretends to be a lot the last couple of months. Do you know if he got his account back after the first time? Good one bringing it to mods attention OP

His last post is on Sep 4th, so most likely he's not banned now. Other than that, can't recall any details.

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103 days, 21 hours and 10 minutes.

Quote from: Cyrus on September 06, 2015, 04:23:56 PM

Quote from: --Encrypted-- on September 06, 2015, 09:21:50 AM

they're probably hacked. but I won't bet on it.
some users that was spreading malware in the past (namely @YoeN, mizna, and EmpoEX) are Sr. Members too.

Yes, these are all hacked accounts.

Quote from: unamis76 on September 06, 2015, 09:52:35 AM

I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile,

Handled almost 100 reports before he stopped. He's banned now.

That guy EmpoEX has been hacked or atleast pretends to be a lot the last couple of months. Do you know if he got his account back after the first time? Good one bringing it to mods attention OP

Cyrus

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Quote from: --Encrypted-- on September 06, 2015, 09:21:50 AM

they're probably hacked. but I won't bet on it.
some users that was spreading malware in the past (namely @YoeN, mizna, and EmpoEX) are Sr. Members too.

Yes, these are all hacked accounts.

Quote from: unamis76 on September 06, 2015, 09:52:35 AM

I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile,

Handled almost 100 reports before he stopped(left a couple of redirection topics to the trashcan to let users know I'm on it and that we've received eenough reports). He's banned now.

Quote from: Athertle on September 06, 2015, 12:18:38 PM

Quote from: LordCoder on September 06, 2015, 09:55:11 AM

You could do an automated report system like in some forums.

Can you elaborate? The report system is already good; I can't see how it would be improved. If you're saying that if a post was reported several times it would be automatically deleted, then obviously that could be easily taken advantage of.

Indeed, one report/post is enough. But you can't be sure if anyone else reported it already. Epochtalk(the new forum software) will have an improved reporting system in which reports on the same post are grouped together and duplicate reports(by same or different users) will be easier to spot and handle. I think a similar system is what LordCoder was implying.

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Everything has been done, i think the user has been banned and seems that all of his posts are deleted now.

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Quote from: LordCoder on September 06, 2015, 09:55:11 AM

Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:43:35 AM

Quote from: galbros on September 06, 2015, 09:30:34 AM

Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:18:51 AM

I've already reported in Staff Forum but we have only 2 active Global Moderators and BadBear to handle these.

This guy is going everywhere. Does it help if we report him more and more or does that just clog up the system?

One report is enough. We can't do anything until a Global Moderator or Admin come up to forum.

You could do an automated report system like in some forums.

Can you elaborate? The report system is already good; I can't see how it would be improved. If you're saying that if a post was reported several times it would be automatically deleted, then obviously that could be easily taken advantage of.

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Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:43:35 AM

Quote from: galbros on September 06, 2015, 09:30:34 AM

Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:18:51 AM

I've already reported in Staff Forum but we have only 2 active Global Moderators and BadBear to handle these.

This guy is going everywhere. Does it help if we report him more and more or does that just clog up the system?

One report is enough. We can't do anything until a Global Moderator or Admin come up to forum.

You could do an automated report system like in some forums.

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Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:18:51 AM

I've already reported in Staff Forum but we have only 2 active Global Moderators and BadBear to handle these.

Thanks

Quote from: LMGTFY on September 06, 2015, 09:36:58 AM

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At least this brings some comedy to the issue...

Is it worth continuing to report these posts, or is once enough?

He's been playing funny and posting this on threads accusing him Cheesy

Quote from: --Encrypted-- on September 06, 2015, 09:42:28 AM

I remember seeing a thread where someone asked the same question (I'm searching for it now). and the answer is yes, once is enough as long as it is just one user spamming non stop all over the place. though there's nothing wrong with reporting all of them.

edit:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/question-about-reporting-a-mass-spammer-1142209

Quote from: EFS on September 06, 2015, 09:43:35 AM

One report is enough. We can't do anything until a Global Moderator or Admin come up to forum.

Thanks for the heads up. I usually report all the posts just like I did now.

I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile,

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Quote from: unamis76 on September 06, 2015, 09:08:33 AM

Here's the user: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=341745

Reporting all I can. Also gave him negative trust.

just report one post and write comment that he is spamming the forum

I think this account is hacked

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