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martino · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:54 am Post subject: Spam

As suspected the annoying little spammer buggers are being creative in getting around the recent "block" imposed by the Administrators.

They obviously treat it as a game of "beat the admin". Shame they do not have something better to do with their time.

pastpirate · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:23 pm Post subject:

One way or another we will beat these bastards.
Sorry it took so long to delete them today. My computer at work is stuffed so I had to wait till I got home. May be the same for a few days till I get a new one.
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1980Cossie · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 830

Seems they are spamming hundreds of other forums up and down the country. I read somewhere on a motorbike forum the admin blocked all IP addresses coming from specific IP ranges

180.246.*.*
180.254.*.*

They banned these 2 IP ranges and it has stopped immediately

And these are the names and addresses of those doing it:

Aftab Ali, Laura Digweed and M Leak all seem to reside at the same (residential) address, and that postcode is in Rochdale not Manchester.

Registrant: Aftab Ali
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address:
9 Heald Close
Manchester
Lancs
OL12 7HJ
United Kingdom

Laura Digweed
41 Duke Avenue
Manchester
Lancashire
OL12 7HJ
United Kingdom

M Leak
41 Duke Avenue
Manchester
Lancs
OL12 7HJ

pastpirate · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:07 pm Post subject:

Shame the police won't arrest the tossers.
That won't happen unless they drive at 33 mph or park on a double yellow line though.
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bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

1980Cossie wrote:

Seems they are spamming hundreds of other forums up and down the country.

Yes, nearly every forum in the country has spam posters at some time or another.

However if the owners/administrators of a forum are being seen to take action by installing filters, banning IP addresses, banning posters and regularly removing any spam, or other unwanted messages that gets through, these scumbags will soon move on somewhere else.

Unfortunately most spammers always seem to be one step ahead and if the software for a forum is not 100% effective, moderation of all new registrations must be done with e-mail verification, image verification and possibly banning some of the free email domains many spammers use.

BAZZABAGGIES · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 1918

Just Googled this.
Hi.

Just popping in here in my defence. I am the aformentioned Aftab Ali of Sizzle Media, a web design company based in Manchester. Unfortunatly we have had a number of I'm a spammy wanker related domains registered on our reseller account for a client who has employed the services of a very dodgy SEO company. Unfortunatly for us these domain names we're mistakenly registered in our name rather than the client, who is another local web designer:
Laura Digweed
41 Duke Avenue
Manchester
Lancashire
OL12 7HJ
United Kingdom

I can assure you that neither me, nor my business is behind any of these spam attacks. Sizzle Media are an established company that has never used any such tactics, and from a Google search you will see that we do more than our fair shair of genuine marketing, ethical SEO and have a reputation as such. These spamm attacks are just as damaging to our reputation as they are to your forums, and our clients websites and forums have also been targeted.

We have now corrected the domain ownership details but unfortunatly we have been dragged through the mud during this process.

You're not the first people to bring this up as I have had calls and emails from companies all over the world accusing me and Sizzle media of spamming their forums, even some voicemail death threats. So I do applogise for any inconvenience this has caused anyone but it was simply a domain registration mistake that has now been corrected. I can assure you that neither me, nor any of my staff have engaged in any such activities.

Regards
Aftab A

Come on lads sort this as this site will have to change its name to
The kitchencrap Forum. Shocked

pastpirate · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:10 pm Post subject:

I have just emailed Craig to update him.
This will be sorted but we are up against a clever enemy.
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Eck · Joined: 25 Aug 2012 Posts: 2548

I would call them devious,not clever. Judge

pastpirate · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject:

Craig and I have been looking at another forum that has had the same problem. They banned a whole batch of IP addresses and it seemed to work.
Craig has done the same here. We will see if it helps over the next couple of days.
Cheers, Jamie.
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Eck · Joined: 25 Aug 2012 Posts: 2548

pastpirate wrote:

Craig and I have been looking at another forum that has had the same problem. They banned a whole batch of IP addresses and it seemed to work.
Craig has done the same here. We will see if it helps over the next couple of days.
Cheers, Jamie.

Excellent

pompeypete · Forum Moderator Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 1094

pastpirate wrote:

Craig and I have been looking at another forum that has had the same problem. They banned a whole batch of IP addresses and it seemed to work.
Craig has done the same here. We will see if it helps over the next couple of days.
Cheers, Jamie.

Lets hope so , another 6 today........

Shocked

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