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Thread: The spam attack

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    The spam attack

    What is goin on. in the last 10 minutes i had to report a whole bunch of similar spam posts. How do these ppl post so much spam in such a short period of time?

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    Re: The spam attack

    It's not people it's scripts that are registering hundreds of accounts and posting on all the threads (apparently starting from the oldest).

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    Re: The spam attack

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    Re: The spam attack

    Lots of 2004 posts appearing, that's very wierd...

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    Re: The spam attack

    We're aware of the situation.

    The moderator team are doing their best to contain things, please continue reporting all spam you see. Thank you very much for your help

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    Re: The spam attack

    It appears someone has an automated script to create accounts and post. We are looking into it.
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    Re: The spam attack

    Isn't that image thing supposed to prevent them from registering in the first place?
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    Re: The spam attack

    Quote Originally Posted by M$LOL View Post
    Isn't that image thing supposed to prevent them from registering in the first place?
    Well brother the image thingy is called CAPTCHAs, and well nowadays people spend more time cracking something than inventing something... well chk this site.. it has few famous CATCHAs and how to defeat them..
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/sites/

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