Help Us Fight Spam

[Leto85]

I understand. But my "cousin's" e-mail had nothing as subject, so I opened it. I thought it was just an average mail from my cousin.

Hmmm, those persons are becoming smarter. I have no answer to this I'm afraid. Let's put our hope in some more specified members here.
ICT people somewhere? Little help here!

[MomOfMany]

I don't know a lot about this stuff, but I have had a friend who had a virus on his computer and everytime he logged in it would automatically send out an email to all his contacts saying that he uploaded some more pictures or something and to click here to see, which I never did, but I know that is something that can happen. My virus ware is pretty good about protecting my computer I will just do it then I can click the box at the bottom and see what has been blocked or fixed. And I have to say my computer is over 3 years old and never had a virus and I am on it everyday and surf the web a lot. If you subscribe to Comcast internet they provide you with a free virus protection service through Norton and that is what I use. Hope that is ok to post, just want to be helpful to those who may not know about it.

Pam I check through the members every month or so and click the links they provide. I have only reported ones that were bad, not ones that send you to a site that is to buy something or whatever, but just asking should I be reporting that to you as well? Because if you would like me to, I would be more than happy to.

[Swede1992]

Not wanting to put the words in Pam's mouth, but to answer your question momofmany, if you read the forum rules, you'll see rule #12. It clearly states that links to sites solely for a commercial interest is reason enough for us to delete the account, so please do report it to us should you find such a link.

[Pam]

I check new member's profiles every day for anything inappropriate or considered to be spam.  Hopefully, I'm catching all of them, but feel free to report anything like that if you see it. 

[MomOfMany]

Ohh I was not aware that the links posted on the member page is also in their profiles. I don't look at profiles really. I just like to look at those for more Sim related things.
Thanks Swede will do from here on out.

[Leto85]

Not wanting to put the words in Pam's mouth, but to answer your question momofmany, if you read the forum rules, you'll see rule #12. It clearly states that links to sites solely for a commercial interest is reason enough for us to delete the account, so please do report it to us should you find such a link.

And any commercial site who are clever enouth to read the forum rules now know that they don't have to link to any website in their account, but only in posts to get a head start in posting and spreading spam before they get banned.
I'm not saying this because I find you shouldn't postst your post I am quoting to, but now they know that to. Please be aware of that.

[Swede1992]

I don't think that's such a huge risk Leto, if it's not automatic bots we're dealing with here, it's people that are maybe logged in 3 minutes during all the months they've been members. Those people don't spend time looking at the forum, they just want to spread their junk to as many as possible as quick as possible.

[Pam]

I think it's like Swede said.  They usually don't come into the forum at all.  They just make a few profiles and move on.  They probably aren't even aware that those profiles get banned and deleted.  They just come back another day and make more bogus profiles for me to delete.  In all this time, I've only seen two or three posts on the forum by any of these spammers.  That's a pretty good record, in my opinion, considering we have up to 15,000 pageviews per day. 

[Leto85]

Help Us Fight Spam... For some odd reason I missed the S when I quickly saw this topic between the many others here and I was thinking: 'what is this al about???'
But it is the topic I've posted on several times already so we're good now. Glad I misread that.

Anyway, after reading your last post Pam I think this forum is pretty save compared to others when we are talking about fake accounts, so that sounds pretty good to me to.

[Pam]

I want to say thank you to everyone who has helped us by reporting questionable posts.  The Forum is growing at such a pace that I'm no longer able to read every post each day.  It's more important than ever for our members to report anything that looks inappropriate or may be spam.  And please, don't worry about offending anyone by reporting a post that turns out to be ok.  Better safe than sorry.  When you report a post using the Report to Moderator button, it only goes to Moderators and whoever is online will check the post and delete it if necessary. 

Cheers everyone!

[MomOfMany]

Is that the correct way to report them? Most of the time I don't even think about that and I just message whomever of authority is on. But if you prefer the report to moderator I can try to remember to use that instead.

[Metropolis Man]

Is that the correct way to report them? Most of the time I don't even think about that and I just message whomever of authority is on. But if you prefer the report to moderator I can try to remember to use that instead.

Personally, I would prefer a PM on a offensive post that needs immediate attention. But, that's just me. "Report to Moderator" sends all staff an email and to be honest, I rarely look at emails only because I get so few.

[Leto85]

Than it should be obvious in the future: Report spam to Pam.

[Metropolis Man]

Than it should be obvious in the future: Report spam to Pam.

That's good advice, but it's much safer to do the double whammy and someone should send me a PM as well. Pam sleeps during the day and that's when I'm usually on. If we're spammed during the day, then I need to be on it immediately which is why I want someone to PM me if they happen to see I'm online. I mean, chances are I'll see the spam anyway, but when I log on to the forum if I happen to notice a PM, then that's what I will always look at before hitting threads so if a spam alert is sitting in my inbox, it will get taken care of very quickly.

[Leto85]

That's good advice, but it's much safer to do the double whammy and someone should send me a PM as well. Pam sleeps during the day and that's when I'm usually on. If we're spammed during the day, then I need to be on it immediately which is why I want someone to PM me if they happen to see I'm online. I mean, chances are I'll see the spam anyway, but when I log on to the forum if I happen to notice a PM, then that's what I will always look at before hitting threads so if a spam alert is sitting in my inbox, it will get taken care of very quickly.

In that case the line should get changed to: Report spam to Pam and the Metropolis Man, which still sounds strong because it rimes to.

You should make a rapsong out of it, the Report Rap.

You two makes an exellent team I must say btw, filling up each other 'offline weaknesses' if I call it that correctly.

Is Pam participating on the upcoming Late Night expension and lives on a vampire schedule now: sleeping during the day?