ARCHIVE: Report spam issues here (older posts)
Mar 4, 2015 | 10:20 am
#181
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Mar 4, 2015 | 12:50 pm
#182
No longer at FT -- contact IBJoel please
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All taken care of. Thank you everyone!
And again as http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/gosetup1050.html
Has von79 。 com in post
Edit: back again
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/waltekgdhjy.html
ＦＤＳ５６４ . ＣＯＭ in post
Has von79 。 com in post
Edit: back again
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/waltekgdhjy.html
ＦＤＳ５６４ . ＣＯＭ in post
And again as http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/jam499.html
Has WO823 . COM in post
Has WO823 . COM in post
Our Asian friend is back as http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/membe...schey2010.html
This time its ..... . com
This time its ..... . com
Mar 4, 2015 | 4:13 pm
#183
Suspended
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not really sure where to put this, so I'll dump it here: whomever is supplying the ads at the bottom of the forum pages (criteo.com/adchoices?) is throwing up one hell of a lot of malware ads at the moment. It's driving my security system nuts on every other page load for the last half hour or so.
Mar 4, 2015 | 4:16 pm
#184
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Mar 4, 2015 | 5:47 pm
#185
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There are mods worldwide. Our own Information Desk has mods on the the west coast, the east coast, the east coast with a screwed-up sleep schedule 
, and Asia. I believe the Senior Moderator team (the team which is primarily responsible for moderating the unmoderated forums but who also have the ability to perform moderator actions across the entire board) have similarly global representation.
For those forums with a mostly U.S.-based moderator team, you can still report the post as normal, but if it's the middle of the night U.S. time, no one may be around to get the notification at that time. Perhaps the Senior Moderators should subscribe to email notifications from this thread and we can use this thread as a central reporting point for middle-of-the-night spam so they can be notified of it and assist in the quick clean-up? (I'm trying to think of solutions that can be implemented within the current forum software.)
, and Asia. I believe the Senior Moderator team (the team which is primarily responsible for moderating the unmoderated forums but who also have the ability to perform moderator actions across the entire board) have similarly global representation.For those forums with a mostly U.S.-based moderator team, you can still report the post as normal, but if it's the middle of the night U.S. time, no one may be around to get the notification at that time. Perhaps the Senior Moderators should subscribe to email notifications from this thread and we can use this thread as a central reporting point for middle-of-the-night spam so they can be notified of it and assist in the quick clean-up? (I'm trying to think of solutions that can be implemented within the current forum software.)
Mar 4, 2015 | 10:11 pm
#186
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Mar 4, 2015 | 11:37 pm
#187
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Here's another one, 2 posts and counting:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/membe...hiemum006.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/membe...hiemum006.html
Mar 5, 2015 | 3:43 am
#188
Ambassador, New England
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I use a 3rd party website to alert me to new threads in Hotel Deals and no spam appeared there overnight. Yay! ^
Mar 5, 2015 | 12:16 pm
#189
No longer at FT -- contact IBJoel please
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: California
Posts: 304
Banned! Thank you.
Awesome, and yay! Thank you for monitoring and banning users throughout it all. 
Mar 9, 2015 | 12:57 am
#190
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New member raj77744 (or some similar username) is busy tonight posting phone numbers for what is apparently an Indian escort service.
He/she is now up to 40 threads, apparently all in Hotel Deals. Mysteriously, there are 44 posts, but I can't seem to find any of the posts that didn't start a thread. Maybe this means that someone is working on the problem.
ADDED: More than 50 threads now, and it's progressed from escorts to call girls. By number 75, it might be prostitutes and hookers at 100.
He/she is now up to 40 threads, apparently all in Hotel Deals. Mysteriously, there are 44 posts, but I can't seem to find any of the posts that didn't start a thread. Maybe this means that someone is working on the problem.
ADDED: More than 50 threads now, and it's progressed from escorts to call girls. By number 75, it might be prostitutes and hookers at 100.
Last edited by MSPeconomist; Mar 9, 2015 at 1:52 am
Mar 9, 2015 | 2:02 am
#191
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New member raj77744 (or some similar username) is busy tonight posting phone numbers for what is apparently an Indian escort service.
He/she is now up to 40 threads, apparently all in Hotel Deals. Mysteriously, there are 44 posts, but I can't seem to find any of the posts that didn't start a thread. Maybe this means that someone is working on the problem.
ADDED: More than 50 threads now, and it's progressed from escorts to call girls. By number 75, it might be prostitutes and hookers at 100.
He/she is now up to 40 threads, apparently all in Hotel Deals. Mysteriously, there are 44 posts, but I can't seem to find any of the posts that didn't start a thread. Maybe this means that someone is working on the problem.
ADDED: More than 50 threads now, and it's progressed from escorts to call girls. By number 75, it might be prostitutes and hookers at 100.
Mar 9, 2015 | 3:19 pm
#192
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I banned his IP too.
Mar 16, 2015 | 2:17 am
#193
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The spamner is back:- Image rolled into edited text to avoid image/link restriction for newbie's
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
Mar 16, 2015 | 11:50 am
#194
No longer at FT -- contact IBJoel please
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: California
Posts: 304
IP address banned!
The spamner is back:- Image rolled into edited text to avoid image/link restriction for newbie's
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
Mar 18, 2015 | 2:13 am
#195
FlyerTalk Evangelist
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The spamner is back:- Image rolled into edited text to avoid image/link restriction for newbie's
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/eicdiwaca.html
Last edited by Prospero; Apr 13, 2015 at 8:43 am Reason: Delete spam link