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Topic: Massive spam bot attack underway - page 2. (Read 581 times)

hero member
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July 28, 2019, 10:39:22 AM
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Just keep reporting them, but there's an infestation of them for sure. It's times like these when I wish all new accounts were shadowbanned until their first post or so has been verified.

Globals can't do much either other than keep nuking them but we do have a tool to spot probable newbie alts now so that's helpful and we can pre-emptively nuke a lot of these but other than that people will just have to keep reporting them.

now i keep reporting them and the total newbie account that post like that more than 50++ and many of the post is from ANN Altcoins
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July 28, 2019, 10:26:20 AM
#2
Just keep reporting them, but there's an infestation of them for sure. It's times like these when I wish all new accounts were shadowbanned until their first post or so has been verified.

Globals can't do much either other than keep nuking them but we do have a tool to spot probable newbie alts now so that's helpful and we can pre-emptively nuke a lot of these but other than that people will just have to keep reporting them.
legendary
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July 28, 2019, 10:01:28 AM
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Edit: Seems to be done for now. Lasted about an hour.

See screenshot below from altcoin ANNs but other boards (e.g. Bitcoin Discussion) are getting infected too. The ones with the "_XY" naming scheme are all bots. Promoting some sort of trading signal or shit like that. One post per account (possibly more after they wait out the 6-minute delay) and they have a lot of those accounts, seem to have been registered two months ago. I have reported a few posts but perhaps a better approach would be for an admin or a global mod to take a look at it on a larger scale.

They even spammed the "Advertising spam is not allowed" thread Grin

Known affected boards:

Bitcoin Discussion
Mining (Altcoins)
Announcements (Altcoins)

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Edited 2020-11-30 to fix a broken image

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