Topic: NA ONLY ME DON OBSERVE THIS THING? (Read 126 times)

We need to act with caution when in a public forum like this because allot of people on this group has other purpose other than the original intension why the group was created, one needs to be extra careful especially when it comes to gambling thread as it has the ability to make loose your money with fake prediction.
Let take responsibility for the safety of this forum by reporting any suspicious thread

I’ve just observed that the spammers have been changing their post patterns, now as at the time of this comment the topic is “Looking for a business partner- you can earn up to $1000 daily” and before this one, I’ve been also noticing another post that’s also been coming repeatedly, and that’s how I go to know it’s still the same person doing it. And sometimes I ask myself, do people still fall victim for such obvious scams anymore? Yes I know we have newbies that come into the space almost everyday but most of them are able to detect scams as obvious as this, especially when it’s exactly the same post coming from different accounts almost immediately after the previous one.

This topic discussion is on general board https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/this-free-amazon-giftcards-method-spammers-5510499 you can read the replies of others there.
The spammer is using a bot to create multiple accounts in few seconds with different names making it very difficult to put the spammer on ignore list.

My problem is that it distracts me whenever I get a notification from telegram notifier and that has made me to show less concern on my notifier unlike me. When the spammer gets tired, he will stop and walk away.

I've stumbled on a lot of those kind of threads on the gambling board and one thing is that as long as the account that creates the thread is a pure newbies account, it's almost impossible for me to click any of those links for any reason.
The people I pity most are mainly newbies that don't know much about security and just go about clicking anything that comes thier way. Sometimes, before the moderator first lucks the thread and maybe deletes it, someone has already clicked on it and might have compromised his account or other private information in the process.

Let's note that an insider who knows that the majority of the people in the forum have some crypto holding can create a new account and use it for sending malicious and corrupt links in form of spam accross the forum targeting some selected individuals just to steal thier crypto holdings.
The space is one place everyone shouldn't take the matter of secury lightly because due to the anonymousity of all forum users, you can't really tell who has an evil intention against members of the forum and when they create new accounts to carry out such ill intentions, you can't actually get them as long as they are smart enough.

Yes, it's true that for all of us using Bitcointalk notifier, it's obvious we may have come across this spam threads by these users which started 3 days ago, targeting gambling, bitcoin discussion and beginners & help boards with a particular post, of which I'm happy the moderators have been doing a good job deleting the post immediately it gets posted. And as such, I think it will be wise if the forum can implement a new rule to stop new accounts from post immediately on the forum until 48hrs after they are created, as I think this will help reduce the rate at which these users spam the forum.

I think this is just a trite solution to such spam messages on telegram or whatever platform, just to jump am pass like you suggest.

As usual, you don't expect scammers to rest despite mods deleting their accounts, they will keep opening new ones because newbies like to hear the unbelievable as they will keep being victims to those in the trade of scamming.

Not only there those two boards[bitcoin discussions, gambling] he's been spreading it across the forum.. he's actually trying to get as many as possible target to click his links before it get taken down.
I tagged two of his account when he started the spree I think 2/3 days ago ( i verified his link through  the source ) but I got tired and it seem the mod are really doing something about it . He's creating new accounts from different ips, i think that was how he was getting through to post his shit... What a stubborn as.. goat   he definitely need a real nuke

To place a suspicious user with such nuisance on ignore list would help if and only if the user didn't have more accounts to make similar post from.
Otherwise, I think telegram has features in its settings and configuration that can help out OP block notifications from that link that was already clicked on initially.

Also, when we click on new links, we should try not to allow permissions or give access to the sites to send us notifications or even accept their cookies, because that's how we get customized ads pop ups, redirections and theft of our details and data.

How many of those users are you going to place on the ignore list? If you check very well, you will see that each day new accounts pop up to come and scam the board with their link and a little different write-up once's. Those accounts are banned and the post deleted, but they come back with new once's. 
 
If there were tools like word filter ignore, that would have been helpful to avoid such stress because ignoring those users won't help, and even if it does, it won't last more than a day.

As the moderators are banning the person's account, the person create another accounts immediately and using the accounts which are another accounts to create the spam topics in some seconds. There is nothing that you can do.

It is frustrating but I still just make use of the bot. The topic the person is creating are similar and you can easily just bypass it without reading it, not to talk of clicking on it.

That would've been an amazing remedy to such a menace if this spamming activities was done by just one user, I e also noticed that these posts are mostly from different users, because I believe that some of the accounts would be banned and right after, the spammer creates another account right away to continue his spamming, and sometimes these messages often comes from multiple accounts all at once, so even if I put one account on ignore list, they'll just create other accounts and it'll be business as usual.

It's really so annoying when a scammer and spammer keeps flooding the forum with senseless posts that is why we shouldn't just click on any link we see because different people came to the forum with different intentions, some have genuine purpose while others have ulterior motives so the best thing to do is just to ignore such notifications when they pop uo in your Super Notifier and attend to important ones it's as simple as that.


Placing such user on ignore list will help i think so

For this kyn digital age wey we dey like this, online communities like this one don really help plenty people as e don create avenue for discussion and learning and even to share and exchange information. But regardless of all the advantages wey these online communities dey provide to people, e don also turn playground for scammers wey just dey look for small opportunities to carry deceive and thief from people wey eye no reach ground.

The reason wey I create this thread na because of wetin I don dey observe lately for the forum, I sha no know if na only me don dey notice am but I believe say others dey also notice this thing wey I wan talk like this. E get one mad scammer wey dey on the loose, wey just dey disturb both Bitcoin and Gambling Discussion Board with him spamming posts, although our mods them dey sharp to dey delete these annoying posts, but this relentless spammer just dey bombard the boards with him shady links dey fyn who go click him link.

Despite the Moderators their relentless efforts to dey delete these posts, this spammer just dey persistent, dey clog people Telegram Notifier those endless streams of annoying junk posts. For people like me, this wahala don render my Telegram Notifier almost useless because better post notifications wey I supposed dey follow up go come mix up inside these spam posts and because of this wahala, e come dey difficult for me to follow up some kind meaningful discussions for the forum and this thing just dey piss me off. So I no know if na only me dey observe this problem wey dey disrupt my ability to follow up better discussions, if not, abeg wetin I fit do to stop those notifications?