We seem to have had an influx of weird spam accounts that are somehow passing the human captchas whilst also being a bot lol not sure how that can happen.
So I've disabled posting unless people confirm our privacy policy and terms and conditions, both should stop any posting from fake accounts...
Just answered the phone to an Asian guy who told me he was from Microsoft. Apparently there's been a lot of problems reported from my computer. Now I've had these calls many times before and I've always played along with things, winding the caller up, but this time I went for a different...
getting loads of spam emails from a domain called appspot.com . apparently this is a google cloud based domain and is being hacked with all this crap. can't block them, they come into junk box every day . is there any way to block htis domain or stop the spam.?
Just a heads up to any mods currently online....
User in title is a spammer have just recieved pointless private message saying i hope your children have down syndrome?
Sorry to dissapoint but im afraid they dont
just received the spams from e.g. Katie Ellis & Paul Scott. having their been many of them posted to some of the sparks on this forum .so I have send both scam mails forward to each other .happy days .
Okay I can see that whatever the case there is no one working with the forum who can stop the spam. Well I acknowledge that clearly you get on to it and wipe it off each and every time it appears and am always grateful you respond so quickly. I realise it must be a chore that you hate as much as...
Has Dan gone missing, because this spam is getting silly now - @Dan maybe this article can help you put a stop to it?
Block China Web Traffic IP Addresses and Chinese Hackers - http://www.parkansky.com/china.htm
So, I thought if I put the author of a post, such as the spam posts, on ignore they will disappear? However they do not they are there still large as life. Is there any way to clear the screen from my (the user) end? Oh great admins tell us please:rolleyes:
Hi guys,
Firstly, apologies for not being around as much as I should be. We're here in the background dealing with things but generally don't have much time to chat in threads. We're getting a bit more time now so will be on more and more each week.
Secondly, wow, this spam is getting silly...
Hi Guys, just thought I would let you all know that we are well aware of all the spam attacks we are getting, mainly because we have the fun of clearing them out on a daily basis.
I also know it must be frustrating as members to wake up to it everyday, so would like to say thanks for your...
Am I the only one or are others fed up with getting 3 - 4 spam emails a day because the NICEIC have posted your email online, using mailto so making it real easy for spammers?
I did approach the NICEIC scam who said it was simply a coincidence, I then got them to change the address listed to...
This is a bit of a long shot but can anyone give me a clue as to the "workings" of the BT spam filter?
We have 4 BT accounts - 1 each plus a generic family one. Yesterday I forwarded an email from the generic one to my son ..... it didn't arrive. It wasn't in his spam filter. So I logged on to...
every time i click on the ripped dvd threads, malwarebytes warns me that it's just blocked access to a malicious site.
based on that, i'd just like to warn people to be careful. i don't know if they can affect your computer from simply looking at the posts, but if you haven't got any malware...
OK .. it's yet another day and we're being Spammed again - this time courtesy of some twerp calling itself Alkando.
What do these folk get out of doing this, and what can we do to stop it and make sure it stays stopped?
It's all getting rather tiresome now.
Is anyone getting loads of this lately? I'm getting stuff asking me to update my account profiles with Co op bank, Contact Nationwide Building Society re my account (neither of which I have) Some from Internal Revenue Service of United States of America telling me my cheque to them bounced and...
Hi Guys,
I am getting fed up of all the bloody Trade Price list coming through on my email, and having to filter through them to all the time. Any idea how to stop this?? or how to remove my email from the MCS Database?
I always respond asking to be removed from the mailing list, but it never...
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