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frejoh
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Initially Posted - 06/30/2009 :  04:30:50  Show Profile
I got some spam yesterday addressed to my user name from the asociation forum. Someone in Africa hacked into the forum, but I don't know how to alert an administrator/moderator. Did anyone else get spammed this way?
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/30/2009 :  06:16:08  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Send an email to Paul or any officer through the forum email feature...


PAUL - I don't remember the exact details, but this appears to all be that nigerian scam. There is a way to block IP addresses, I don't remember how, but it is somewhere wrapped in the admin functions. I used to look up the IP address then block it as long as it wasn't being used by a legit member as well.(dumped DB into access)
Also -related but not directly to this issue: the age requirement was only turned on to keep the 'bots' out. Most spammers program the bots to run a script based on the standard install. Turning the age field on as a mandatory entry hosed them up. You can pick another one of the fields if that seems too intrusive (other than address fields, they seem to handle that one)

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/30/2009 :  07:03:56  Show Profile
Yes. Happily, this isn't "hacking in"--they aren't getting your e-mail address (unless you respond to them). They're manually going through our Members list, using the "Send e-mail" function that is there specifically to keep harvester systems from getting our addresses. (These systems scan web pages for address formats with at-signs.)

You won't see very much of this spam through the association--too labor-intensive. Just don't "game" them--they're looking for any kind of reply, and will keep using the association site if they get it. Meanwhile, hopefully we can block their IP addresses. I doubt there are any 25' Catalinas in these countries.
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rustynbigd
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Response Posted - 07/10/2009 :  07:31:04  Show Profile
I am getting several emails a day. I just no longer accept any emails from the association. Divert all to delete upon receipt.
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 07/10/2009 :  08:51:39  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Isn't that weird? I've never gotten ANY spam in almost 3 years. (probably shouldn't have said that)
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 07/14/2009 :  08:50:33  Show Profile
I have received several over the last few weeks; since the forum changed hosts.
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