MileageAddict, thanks for your work in cleaning that up. Not an easy task, I'm sure.

Is there a way, other than PMing you or hitting the red triangle in each spam post, to "rally the troops" to get it taken care of? I guess I'm asking if there is anyone else (IB, Senior Mods, etc.) that I should contact once I learn of such a spam attack? What can we, as members, do to help?

I received spam from the following "member":http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/domins.html

This is the message I got:

"HELLO
how are you today
My name is Miss Dominika
i saw your profile now
and i pick interest in you as friend to share important discussion with you as friend so contact me through my email addresses
([email protected]) or send me your own email for
picture and other discussion ok
i wait for your respond and have a nice day"

I monitor this thread and during my morning "clean-up" review I will look for any reported Spam. If I see it and the offender is still active, I will ban them and work with the other mods on getting it cleaned up.

So, thank you to all who are posting here; it does help.

I've banned the IP addresses of the spammers of both MilesBuzz and Hotel Deals. Thank you so much for dealing with this.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Just to verify, this was a PM, not an e-mail?

Yes, this was a PM from March 3 at 8:05AM.

Thank you. Now handled; you won't hear from this one again.

This is a good illustration of why FT puts PM limits on how many PMs per day can be sent out by new members. This person had zero posts, has all the earmarks of a scammer and was posting from a West African country known for such activities.

Our Asian friend is back as http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/membe...schey2010.html
This time its ..... . com

Another one: weheart0619

Again with a form of R823.c om somewhere in the thread title

Also uwugxlyl8694 This time with N E V 7. com in the thread title

It seems they very active at night when the admins and mods are away. Wouldn't it be better to have some on duty at night? I realize spam is an everlasting problem, but I've never seen this level in my dozen years in FT.

Weheart is hitting a bunch of different fora: Travel Technology, Cruises, TravelBuzz,....

Uwug seems to prefer messing up the Hotel Deals forum.

desbniy9987 was rather active this evening.

http://i.imgur.com/3oWwT4B.png?2

Its middle of the day in India - Asia (and 18:42 in eastern Australia)
An Indian "love" spammer was active about this time a few months ago

Edit
And again http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/usr1214.html web site ＤＯ９０００ . ＣＯＭ

I am wondering if there's a recent "improvement on spam technology" that helps this new wave of spam attack FT? Or perhaps our former infamous jpg spammer finally recruited his new army to test their new techniques on FT spam trap mechanism? It seems FT is vulnerable to either of the above approaches since they both get through the gate without setting off any alarm.

Nevertheless, my deepest sympathy to our MOD Squad, & thanks for getting the job done quickly! :)

Do the mods who volunteer for this get double overtime pay? :D

(For those who may not know, all FT Moderators are strictly volunteers; no remuneration is given.)