Something I have noticed about some new MEMBERS here.....

OrergoExtex..................joined 3/272011 on April 29,2011 actually posted about 40 links for anxiety workshop sites

I sent Drew a private message....hopefully the spammers will be eliminated even if one at a time.

yShirleyWhitneyc...........joined 4/29/2011 likes spyware removal software..how about spamware removal ?
pasqualecasey705..........joined 4/29/2011 like mechanical pocket watches and would probably relieve you of yours.
yRobertHowellk..............joined 4/29/2011 sporting event tickets
cJimJohnsonj.................joined 4/30/2011 his proclivities are not yet known
eRedsenMcmahonn........joined 5/2/2011...email has "how to get rich" in it...give me a friggin' break !
xdanMarshaLeen...........joined 5/5/2011 another from the U.K.

A new batch of scammers is joining with rather ordinary names that end with numbers:



lionelcobb616.........joined 4/29/2011  There will be more of these.
walterhead4028......joined 4/29/2011 furniture is this guy's thing.
petermorrison442....joined 5/1/2011 cutting  board interest
eliseobanks410.......joined 5/1/2011 check out the email address on this one !
claudeoneal717.......joined 5/2/2011 could the email address be more complicated than this one ?
FranklinBrooke63.....joined 5/2/2011 U.K. email address...storage lkrs there?

Here's the guy we've all been looking for:

He will show you "how to get rich" at his email address; here's his "member" name.

eRedsenMcmahonn

Starting to get tired of these flakes.

Edit:

BotmasterLabs.....joined 5/2/2011...if you type that in your browser and add .net at the end hopefully your
antivirus program will give you the same message I got...UNSAFE SITE.

Phineas304 .........joined 5/2/2011 likes leather dog collars and would sell you one in a minute !
Operated1...........joined 5/2/2011 data center info
Avril12farley3......joined 5/3/2011 another "member" from the U. K.
Crorkgoaxytox.....joined 5/3/2011 just a dorky name; a spammer; came back a couple of hours later selling viagra.
 
gCarmenPottsc....joined 5/4/2011 selling some kind of music database program
tomderedman.....joined 5/4/2011
mbrianmoodyk....joined 5/4/2011 hey it's a moody brian with an alphabet kicker !

See reply #17 above.

This is a good example of what these spammers are up to. That one would take you to a malware site
if your anti-virus program didn't catch it.

Someone asked me why I was doing this...posting suspected spammer's/member's names.

I'm doing it because I think it may help to someday eliminate not only a single spammer, but maybe a bulk of them in one shot.

If I ever have a website/forum of my own, I would want to know how to watch for these people and I'm hoping Drew is exploring those possibilities now.  The two groups of people I have targeted in this thread have definite patterns to their screen names, and not a one of them has really posted any kind of meaningful thought about storage auctions.

They sometimes join and never leave any kind of link to their spam product, but sometimes they come back a few hours, days or weeks later and add that material. Some of them have links right off the bat that not only try to sell something, but have malware products built in that try to gather OUR private info, even if it is an email address. They can either SELL our addressess or they can then spam us directly through our email addy.

If I ever post the name of someone who ACTUALLY is interested in storage auctions (and proves it through legitimate postings) I will BE THE FIRST to admit my mistake.  So far that hasn't happened. I have even emailed some of these people  asking them to post about their storage auction experiences...so far no one has responded either here or privately to me.

Just a bit of explanation for why I go to this effort.

This one is gutsy:

aLekishaMarquezd

Joined 5/6/2011, has the "alphabet" name that is a dead giveaway, AND has MEDICAL BILLING in
website and/or contact info/signature line.

A GRAND SLAM for a spammer.

Swim...................joined 5/7/2011  wants to sell you swimwear
windshieldaz90......joined 5/7/2011  can anyone guess what THIS spammer will do for you ?

If there is such a problem with spam, why not just set the filters to require moderation for any post which contains a link?

If there is such a problem with spam, why not just set the filters to require moderation for any post which contains a link?

If you know how to do that and can pass that information along to Drew that would be a truly positive contribution to the forums.

If I knew how to do it (and if I had the access to do it), I would, but I don't, so I can't.

I am still looking into ways to prevent the spam I am more than open to any ideas

I'm almost certain there is a way to do it. On my Wordpress blogs there is an option under settings in the Admin menu. If you can't figure it out, perhaps you can ask someone on the Wordpress forum or a forum similar to it.

I am still looking into ways to prevent the spam I am more than open to any ideas

Well, you got rid of hundreds the other day, but they still keep coming:



seopower5.........joined 5/12/2011 He's into SEO (search engine optimization)




Drew....can you check on the SPAM FILTER capability of your ADMIN capabilities at your website control center?

A new post to start a new build of spammers:

Ferriola1630........joined 5/13/2011 home loan advice; my advice? Ignore this member.
KGA....................joined 5/13/2011 sealed bid auctions ? that's in his email addy.
aaronramsey17....joined 5/14/2011 and has a named link in the first post for a Baltimore storage facility

Been a week since I caught one, but I'm sure some got through.
This one joined  3 28 2011 and is online as I type.

Has a teeth whitener website.



Iceskcels......................joined 3/28/2011 teeth whitener website

on 5/23/2011 this "member" changed his/her website to yeast infections.

People need clean teeth right?

I know if I was looking for white strips, the first place I would look would be the storage auction forum. Lol

Here's one that's been around for awhile....

Last active May 22, 2011....left us a website to visit.

dbspencer.........joined early March, 2011....website is all foreign language films