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Topic: Spam from @AlexPromotion | About 800 accounts nuked | Thanks Mods! - page 2. (Read 751 times)

legendary
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I've never heard of this either. Tor and VPNs are meant to protect you against this sort of stuff and I doubt even the CIA can find this info if you're smart enough (though I believe VPNs can accidentally leak your IP in some ways). What you might be thinking of is browser fingerprinting though which can be very useful to catch alts and just using a proxy won't help you (and I think this should be on the new forum). You might use a different IP for your accounts but you almost certainly won't be using a unique PC or browser for each of your alts and accounts could be collated and searched by them and cross referenced with other data etc.  
I'm quoting the admin of whatismyip.com,he had stated this in quora :
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The WebRTC vulnerability could give away your real IP address.  Even if there were no vulnerability, it could come down to how the VPN is set up.  Are they using tunneling?  If not, then everywhere you surf could see your real IP along with the IP of the VPN.  Is the VPN including your IP in their header?
Even if the VPN were locked down and no trace of your IP were leaking, this doesn't mean you can commit nefarious acts online without getting found out.  There are log files on every server.  The amount of time logs are kept varies.  With enough resources and legal action, log files from VPNs could be turned over to authorities.  Once they see your real IP, they simply subpoena your ISP and will find out who you are.  Realize that it can be more complicated than the scenario I use above, but my example is to simply help you understand that you're not truly hidden online.
Obviously not everyone on this forum is a tech savvy bad ass to be as careful and take all measures for revealing your real IP, but I just realized that it just cannot be implemented on this forum, as I began reading more on it, seems to be really hard to implement and theymos alone will almost find it impossible to do such.  I reckon even a group of highly qualified front and back end programmers would be able to implement such on this forum.
However, a few websites have cracked down this problem but it's not revealed exactly on how they did such a thing.
legendary
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@hilariousetc,can you please request theymos to implement or at least consider this :-
There is this thing which detects your original IP even if you use VPN or anything, so if you're banned, you cannot access your account/s even if you use VPN. Simple as that. If this feature gets implemented, then people won't have to fuss about shit posters.
I had mentioned this in another thread couple of days ago
I don't know what "this thing" is, but a good VPN won't allow any scripts to detect your real IP address, and neither does Tor.
Bitcointalk has units of evil based on IP addresses, it's not perfect but it's something.

I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them.
Don't worry there, I'll keep reporting them Smiley

I've never heard of this either. Tor and VPNs are meant to protect you against this sort of stuff and I doubt even the CIA can find this info if you're smart enough (though I believe VPNs can accidentally leak your IP in some ways). What you might be thinking of is browser fingerprinting though which can be very useful to catch alts and just using a proxy won't help you (and I think this should be on the new forum). You might use a different IP for your accounts but you almost certainly won't be using a unique PC or browser for each of your alts and accounts could be collated and searched by them and cross referenced with other data etc.  
legendary
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@hilariousetc,can you please request theymos to implement or at least consider this :-
There is this thing which detects your original IP even if you use VPN or anything, so if you're banned, you cannot access your account/s even if you use VPN. Simple as that. If this feature gets implemented, then people won't have to fuss about shit posters.
I had mentioned this in another thread couple of days ago
I don't know what "this thing" is, but a good VPN won't allow any scripts to detect your real IP address, and neither does Tor.
Bitcointalk has units of evil based on IP addresses, it's not perfect but it's something.

I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them.
Don't worry there, I'll keep reporting them Smiley
legendary
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I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them. I hope the bot will be back soon and an update has been requested as it's badly needed, especially as these bots are now going to be spamming the forum instead of just PMs, but I don't know what the error is exactly and if it was simple then it probably would have been fixed by now.
@hilariousetc,can you please request theymos to implement or at least consider this :-
There is this thing which detects your original IP even if you use VPN or anything, so if you're banned, you cannot access your account/s even if you use VPN. Simple as that. If this feature gets implemented, then people won't have to fuss about shit posters.
I had mentioned this in another thread couple of days ago, if cloudfare is going to block bots, alternatives must be taken into consideration at the very least. If this is implemented, users won't have to spend so much time on reporting users who copy paste, shitpost, create alt accounts to irritate users via pm, create Ann threads every day with their legion of accounts, and the list goes on and on. So if they are banned once, they are banned forever. Workload on staff would considerably reduce. But I don't know how hard this will be to implement.
legendary
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I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them. I hope the bot will be back soon and an update has been requested as it's badly needed, especially as these bots are now going to be spamming the forum instead of just PMs, but I don't know what the error is exactly and if it was simple then it probably would have been fixed by now.
legendary
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We had a bot to crawl and nuke these users but it hasn't been working since we changed to cloudflare. Just report them manually for now and they'll be quickly dealt with.
I have reported a lot of them yesterday, the problem is that @AlexPromotion uses many different accounts.
When I search on Google for "@AlexPromotion site:bitcointalk.org", it gives me many new accounts. I've just reported about 100 more. At least this is fast again, the forum performs very well at the moment.

Is there any chance the bot-banning-bot will be working with Cloudflare in the future?
legendary
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I've seen many posts like this in the past days:

We offer promotion and traffic from the forum bitcointalk and social networks. ROI for our services is 600-2000%.
We offer:
- Send private messages to  Bitcointalk users (Only to users who visited ANN thread last month)
- Twitter promotion (We will do a tweet with a description of your project and will mark one user on each tweet)
- Telegram real chat users
- Private messages to telegram users (A+ target audience)

This is automatic message. For all terms x conditions write to telegram - @AlexPromotion

Would it be possible to ban based on keywords? A telegram-nickname seems to be quite unique, any Newbie posting it should get an instant-ban. Once such a blacklist is in place, it can easily be extended with new keywords.

We had a bot to crawl and nuke these users but it hasn't been working since we changed to cloudflare. Just report them manually for now and they'll be quickly dealt with.

This is a good idea, since there's a guy pming me and all of my project owners offering bumping services and leaving their Telegram (@hypebtc). I would like that anyone who says that gets banned.

Report them and they will.
hero member
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This is a good idea, since there's a guy pming me and all of my project owners offering bumping services and leaving their Telegram (@hypebtc). I would like that anyone who says that gets banned.
legendary
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
I've seen many posts like this in the past days:

We offer promotion and traffic from the forum bitcointalk and social networks. ROI for our services is 600-2000%.
We offer:
- Send private messages to  Bitcointalk users (Only to users who visited ANN thread last month)
- Twitter promotion (We will do a tweet with a description of your project and will mark one user on each tweet)
- Telegram real chat users
- Private messages to telegram users (A+ target audience)

This is automatic message. For all terms x conditions write to telegram - @AlexPromotion

Would it be possible to ban based on keywords? A telegram-nickname seems to be quite unique, any Newbie posting it should get an instant-ban. Once such a blacklist is in place, it can easily be extended with new keywords.
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