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New people??

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Post by kanila » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:13 am

Seriously what is going on with the used car salesmen names? I mean one would be funny, but now there is like 6 of them!
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Post by ShadoWarrior » Wed Nov 21, 2018 12:11 pm

Russian spammer. We're working on getting a permanent block of the asshat's IP.

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Post by kanila » Wed Nov 21, 2018 12:45 pm

I figured that it was a spammer. Good luck with nailing him down.
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Post by ShadoWarrior » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:52 pm

I know who he is. Real name, physical address, the works. Alas, he's in Moscow. If he was in a civilized country I'd have his ass already.

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Post by kanila » Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:33 pm

Glad I'm not on your bad side!
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Post by swrider » Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:43 pm

lol.

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Post by swrider » Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:19 pm

I think I have him blocked.

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Post by SanguineAngel » Wed Nov 21, 2018 6:55 pm

I think you meant "I have you now!"

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Post by kanila » Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:31 pm

@swrider @ShadoWarrior Another one for you to block. viewtopic.php?p=30264#p30264
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Post by ShadoWarrior » Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:44 pm

kanila wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:31 pm
@swrider @ShadoWarrior Another one for you to block. viewtopic.php?p=30264#p30264
Russian spammer dealt with. I've banned the entire IP address range of his ISP, so he can't continue to create new accounts by hopping to a new address. If he wants to try to keep screwing with us he'll have to fork over some money to switch to a new ISP ... which I'll then block as well. He'll either go look for easier prey or run out of usable IP addresses to try to come at us from. Since I'm not just blocking one address but every address of his ISP, I'm betting he'll go pester someone else because switching ISPs costs money.

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Post by kanila » Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:56 pm

ShadoWarrior wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:44 pm
kanila wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:31 pm
@swrider @ShadoWarrior Another one for you to block. viewtopic.php?p=30264#p30264
Russian spammer dealt with. I've banned the entire IP address range of his ISP, so he can't continue to create new accounts by hopping to a new address. If he wants to try to keep screwing with us he'll have to fork over some money to switch to a new ISP ... which I'll then block as well. He'll either go look for easier prey or run out of usable IP addresses to try to come at us from. Since I'm not just blocking one address but every address of his ISP, I'm betting he'll go pester someone else because switching ISPs costs money.
Again, don’t mess with Shado! Haha!
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Post by kanila » Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:04 pm

@ShadoWarrior Another grify showed up. They really like this site I guess.
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Post by ShadoWarrior » Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:44 am

Sooner or later he's going to run out of ISPs he can use to try to spam us from.

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Post by ThreeBFour » Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:46 am

@Shadowarrior it looks like our spammer is back. New players in GRC.

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Post by kanila » Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:04 am

Lock the GRC thread completely. It seems to be his target. We will resume the game after a short break. I’m sorry for the issue with the annoying spammer. But there has been WAY too many fake accounts thrown in the character thread. @ShadoWarrior @swrider
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Post by swrider » Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:51 am

I have updated the permissions for your game. Only people in the players group can make posts now. New people will be unable to post join requests unless they are in another game already. They sieves the issue for your game shilling it got everyone well take more work but I know how to do it.

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Post by ShadoWarrior » Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:11 am

There have been 7 spam accounts created just on Mar. 2, all targeting that one thread. I just did something to try to make it much harder on the SOB. I'll be making a public post regarding what I've done in just a bit. Contrary to what my friend Rider may think, the problem is/was deeper than that, and affected a great many forums. Took me over an hour to deal with it, as I had to manually adjust permissions on each and every forum for each account type.

PS - what I've done won't stop the spambot from continuing to create new accounts, but it should at least stop the bot from posting in the game forums once it's gotten into our site. The only real way to nip this completely is to go to paid hosting and re-enable email verification by new members. That stops spambots from getting into the site, period. Or at least that's what it's for.

PPS - In addition to banning the IPs (and I'm banning the entire address range of the source ISP, not just single addresses) I've also just banned the email domains that the spambot is using when it creates accounts. That should make it harder for the bot to create accounts on this site. A cunningly-written spambot should be able to get around that (by making up completely fake URLs), but perhaps we'll get lucky. This bot keeps using the same email domain name.

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Post by Spiritbw » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:39 am

Er, must have done something with those permissions you didn't mean to. I see sections marked GM Notes which I am pretty sure I am not suppose to see.

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Post by ShadoWarrior » Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:29 pm

Spiritbw wrote:
Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:39 am
Er, must have done something with those permissions you didn't mean to. I see sections marked GM Notes which I am pretty sure I am not suppose to see.
Oops. Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.

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Post by swrider » Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:45 pm

@shadowarrior. We can move back to paid hosting. It is up and running and has need for a while. Another option which I was going to use is turn off subscriptions and turn emails back on. This would drastically limit the number of emails the board sends out. I haven't had time to do it though.

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Post by ShadoWarrior » Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:29 pm

Turning off subs and turning email verification back on should solve the spam account creation issue while not triggering the excessive email problem we had before. And without the need to go back to paid hosting (which would create a new headache as all the URLs would change yet again). I have gone into the settings and done it. Let's see what happens. As of now:
  1. The board will now send an email to require new members to verify their registration.
  2. The board will not permit users to send emails via the board.
  3. Users are not permitted to subscribe to forums or threads.

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Post by swrider » Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:45 pm

Awesome If you haven't already please try and create a new account as a test.

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Post by ShadoWarrior » Sun Mar 03, 2019 7:33 pm

I created a test account a couple of hours ago and I have not received the account verification email. Not sure what's up with that. Someone else should give it a test.

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Post by kanila » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:45 pm

I just attempted to make a test account, waiting for the confirmation email. I’ll let you know when I get it.
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Post by swrider » Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:01 pm

Neither of you will recieve them. There is an issue with the SMTP accounts I am attempting to use. Google which has worked in the past considers the board insecure and wont allow itself to be used. I have also tried my yahoo account which has not worked. A third attempt was maid with an email from my paid hosting... that seemed to work but the email never came through. I Think the problem is because the board does not use an SSL certificate, but I dont feel like buying and setting one up.

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