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[Livestuff]

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TCMAS Forums​	Aug 6, 2021, 11:46 PM (15 hours ago)
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So I got this as a email notification of a conversation started request. I did delete and never opened it up. Wondering if anyone else seen this or how they did this with out it showing up on the forum itself.

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[ikserk]

there was another round of spam this morning. the user is banned and ip addresses banned. Countering forum spam is a game of whack-a-mole

 

[ikserk]

i also redacted the actual link in your original post, because without intending to, you spammed the forum with a link to the bad part of the internet

 

[ikserk]

I should also say that the fastest way to get SPAM posts dealt with is to report the post and/or the user. That notifies us right away

 

[Jposch]

This morning was I think the 3rd time I got some spam message in the last month or so. They must be bored.

 

[Livestuff]

i also redacted the actual link in your original post, because without intending to, you spammed the forum with a link to the bad part of the internet

Oops thats was not a good thing to share. Im so very sorry everyone. Guess I wasn't thinking about that.
Thanks @ikserk

 

[ikserk]

This morning was I think the 3rd time I got some spam message in the last month or so. They must be bored.

As best I can tell, the accounts were manually created and then programmatically sent the posts/conversations. I have additional things going on, but don't want to publicize the defenses

 

[Jposch]

As best I can tell, the accounts were manually created and then programmatically sent the posts/conversations. I have additional things going on, but don't want to publicize the defenses

Oh yeah, alot of scammers have gone back to the old ways of manual work, so this being a small forum, I'm sure they don't hit it nearly as hard as the larger sites.