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Total Assault by Spammers


Mallette

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We are under the most insidious attack by spammers I've ever seen. Hidden links in titles and in usernames. PLEASE report any you see from newbies. I know this has been going on a while as I've been otherwise occupied until today, but there are at least 60 in the approval cue right now so some may have gotten through. 
I have PM'd Chad and alerted the other mods. Please keep an eye out! I have no idea what these do but you can be sure it is NOT good. 

 

Dave

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Probably approved 10 new first post this morning. I read each one first before approving, nothing looked out of place, typical audio questions with no links. You must have taken care of the spam post since I was on this morning because I missed them.

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12 hours ago, Schu said:

Yikes... be vigilant.

I never click outside links. The worst are the link hidden in photographs and vids

Agreed. However, what I did was hover over them when I found them. Still don't know how this works, but they were circular in that they pointed back into the Forums. However, no question they were up to no good which is why I called up the militia.

Regards,

Dave

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Just now, CECAA850 said:

Fight the good fight.  I'll stand along the sidelines and give you the occasional golf clap.

Well, turned it over to General Chad as he's better equipped to lead the charge than any of us. Call me ASAP. Have something entirely different for you...

Dave

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5 minutes ago, Mallette said:

Well, turned it over to General Chad as he's better equipped to lead the charge than any of us. Call me ASAP. Have something entirely different for you...

Dave

PM me your number.  The sim card on my phone crapped out yesterday and I lost 90% of my contacts.

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14 hours ago, dtel said:

Probably approved 10 new first post this morning. I read each one first before approving, nothing looked out of place, typical audio questions with no links. You must have taken care of the spam post since I was on this morning because I missed them.

Took me one. But, of course, I have 15 years here and a lot of other online experience as well. I don't even run a virus checker as they slow down the machine too much. I get an infection now and again but knock it right out with Malwarebytes.

 

Dave

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