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AZ Twitter spamming?

Harvey

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AZ Twitter hacked?

Nick ... didn't know if you knew... been following AZ's Twitter for about a week and I'm seeing ads for Cialis and other meds...
 
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Thanks for the heads-up Harvey, I do follow it but haven't been checking it daily. Spam on this site has been up and the RSS feed that posts to Twitter is agnostic on the thread title. The way to stop that spam is to prevent it from getting onto the site to begin with.

I added a few security questions the other day but it appears spambots are getting around it. So when they post a thread for Cialis it automatically gets up onto Twitter.

I'm going to try to spend some time today seeing if I can figure out how to prevent spam in the first place and in particular spam registrations.
 

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The problem is that sometimes you get targeted by mechanical turks i.e. actual people in 3rd world countries who process registrations for pennies each time. And there is really no easy way to block them since they are human and not spambots. I don't know if that is the case - I'm tempted to think some of them might be since I saw a few spammers make 1 or 2 posts that say like "Hi, I'm new here" but nothing else.
 

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The problem is that sometimes you get targeted by mechanical turks i.e. actual people in 3rd world countries who process registrations for pennies each time. And there is really no easy way to block them since they are human and not spambots. I don't know if that is the case - I'm tempted to think some of them might be since I saw a few spammers make 1 or 2 posts that say like "Hi, I'm new here" but nothing else.

Not familiar with vBulletin, but does it by any chance have a plugin that will allow you to block IPs by country? I know this is risky as you may block potential clients, but really how many real members do you think you'll get from China or Russia as an example.
 

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Not familiar with vBulletin, but does it by any chance have a plugin that will allow you to block IPs by country? I know this is risky as you may block potential clients, but really how many real members do you think you'll get from China or Russia as an example.

What, you want to block all the skiiers in Nigeria :)
 

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Some goodies this morning from AZ Twitter:

AlpineZone AlpineZone
cure your premature ejaculation and impotence: Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) for premature ejaculation and i... http://bit.ly/jc8Tnn
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World cam sex world live sex: MSN:she-sex@hotmail.com  Y!M:sexshe18@yahoo.com Young ladies coming from all over... http://bit.ly/mJawv9
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your love-making last for more than 1 hour: TCM :Traditional Chinese Medicine! Treat premature ejaculation and ... http://bit.ly/m9KpmK
44 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
 

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Some goodies this morning from AZ Twitter:

AlpineZone AlpineZone
cure your premature ejaculation and impotence: Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) for premature ejaculation and i... http://bit.ly/jc8Tnn
44 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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AlpineZone
AlpineZone AlpineZone
World cam sex world live sex: MSN:she-sex@hotmail.com  Y!M:sexshe18@yahoo.com Young ladies coming from all over... http://bit.ly/mJawv9
44 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
»
AlpineZone
AlpineZone AlpineZone
your love-making last for more than 1 hour: TCM :Traditional Chinese Medicine! Treat premature ejaculation and ... http://bit.ly/m9KpmK
44 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Actually they were on the board as well this morning. I found the last one very useful. I just checked and they have since been erase, but looks like Nick missed one Enhancement Suggestions
 

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When a new post is posted on AZ it automatically goes to the Twitter page as well, just FYI. So if spam ends up here it makes it to twitter too. Normally they are mod-alerted quickly and one of us deletes the post / bans the user but there is no auto clean up of Twitter. I"ll go take a look right now and see if I can delete that spam. Thanks for the heads-up.

If you guys see the stuff on the board make sure you hit the mod-alert button so we can clean it up.
 

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Not familiar with vBulletin, but does it by any chance have a plugin that will allow you to block IPs by country? I know this is risky as you may block potential clients, but really how many real members do you think you'll get from China or Russia as an example.
check out maxmind.com mod_geoip for apache.. it can do just that.
 
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