Re: spam

[Nossie]

account hacked or always a spammer?

[De Hout]

Definitively hacked. The second one this week I've seen. (I miss a report message option in this forum)
Searching old posts by this person leads to a genuine French weather station site.

[freddie]

I miss a report message option in this forum

There is a report message option.

[Nossie]

admittedly I would have reported it.... but I couldn't find the button either.

[ConligWX]

I miss a report message option in this forum

There is a report message option.

not seen here. maybe for mods and admins only

[saratogaWX]

We had a spate of those messages on WXForum.net too. Came from old usernames who hadn't posted in quite a while.
Likely the result of some other forum leak of name:password that circulated on the dark web, and an enterprising soul
tried them on various forums. Always the same basic post with the odd spelling of 'Сasual Dating' in the topic title.

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krieg1001 from 186.65.114.177  0 days ago  Posts: 0  
alain71500 from 186.65.118.224  0 days ago  Posts: 8  
grigvlad from 186.65.118.137  0 days ago  Posts: 4  
FourCC from 186.65.114.151  2 days ago  Posts: 0  
raspiprof from 142.111.253.218  9 days ago  Posts: 0  
Fermer05 from 85.249.164.170  12 days ago  Posts: 42  
JaseNZ from 138.99.37.144  33 days ago  Posts: 1  
robertaccess from 38.152.204.24  36 days ago  Posts: 0  
Chifraction from 45.134.224.141  36 days ago  Posts: 1  
krisjack69 from 138.99.37.144  40 days ago  Posts: 3  
foskolo from 38.170.254.19  46 days ago  Posts: 0  
TiaraCampbell from 69.166.233.249  364 days ago  Posts: 1  
ChanelClark from 103.27.220.47  393 days ago  Posts: 1

Since some of the IDs had valid posts, I just moved their ID to a 'non posting' group and left them so their prior valid posts would be visible.
The spam posts were removed. They seemed to mostly do one post in the first forum board and then vanish. On a couple of occasions, they spread duplicate posts across multiple boards. It's been quiet for a couple of weeks now, so their novelty of reusing old IDs seems to have worn off (thankfully).

[broadstairs]

Definitely no 'Report Post' option that I can find for a normal user (like me) which most other boards have. Would be a good addition!

Stuart

[mcrossley]

I see this on the desktop...

Screenshot 2024-04-28 101447.png

On my phone, there are three dots to click in the top right of the post that expands those buttons.

[Mapantz]

We don't have those dots

Screenshot_20240428_104041_Samsung Internet.jpg

[Dador]

We don't have those dots

I have it even better.
For me there is only a quotation mark icon

[SamiS]

I have it even better.
For me there is only a quotation mark icon

Yeah, the only one button, except we can also edit and delete our own messages.

[Nossie]

do you not have a 'test' account with peon privileges?

[broadstairs]

So all I see is

cmxspam.jpeg

Stuart

[Dador]

Yeah, the only one button, except we can also edit and delete our own messages.

True.

It's interesting because:
we have 1 icon,
Mapantz has 2,
mcrossley has 8!

You can see who is a minnow and who is a big fish .

[water01]

Mark is a moderator so he sees extra items to moderate forums and posts.