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Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:48 am
by uncle_fungus
Update: All the spammers PMs have now been deleted from the database.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:54 pm
by francois
shdbcamping wrote:If you click on the ! in the triangle at the top near the Quote radio button it will link you to a place to report the Post.
Unfortunately, it only works with forum posts, not PMs... (there's no Report button on the PM screen)
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:56 pm
by francois
Maybe PMs could be disabled until a newcomer has some (legit) posts on the forum?
Say PMs are enabled after 25 posts or something.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:16 pm
by francois
uncle_fungus wrote:In future either email admin {at} foldingforum {dot} org, or send a PM to either myself or bruce (or both).
How about making a sticky post about spam reporting?
There are several different threads about spam, so this should clear up things.
Thanks, and best regards,
François
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:34 pm
by road-runner
Got one...
Can you do me a Favour?
Sent: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:20 am
From: name removed by a moderator
To: road-runner
Message removed by moderator.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:01 pm
by sortofageek
Please note this post earlier in this topic:
uncle_fungus wrote:In future either email admin {at} foldingforum {dot} org, or send a PM to either myself or bruce (or both).
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 461#p97461
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:34 am
by susato
The ! in the triangle is good for reporting posts, but doesn't show up among the buttons on the PM page.
The best way to report a spam PM is to hit the "quote" button, which opens a reply message to the sender, including the entire text of the PM. Then use the little x by the sender's name to delete the sender from the recipient list, and add in bruce and uncle_fungus.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:57 am
by pmasley
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get a GPS location on "it" (a spammer) and just do a personal bang on "it," including complete destruction of "it's" computer and access to the net. Then have a watch on "it." If "it" gets new hardware, "it" gets back on line, "it" gets "it's" butt kicked again. No "Ifs, And or Buts" about it. The Guberment won't stop them. Looks like we are going to have to do this ourselves. The same goes for trojan, rootkit and virus writers. Just take "it" out!
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:21 pm
by susato
Nope. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Here we practice defensive computing, maybe complain to the perp's ISP if it's a white hat ISP.
We also realize that most spam comes out of trojaned machines in botnets. The owners of individual machines don't have a clue that their computer is being abused by the real spammers. And destroying their computer or internet connection wouldn't help when there are 99,999 other rigs in the botnet.
If you want vigilante justice for spammers, you will find like-minded people at the newsgroup news.announce.net-abuse.email. Be sure to lurk for two weeks before you post, because it will take you that long to get past the angry, sarcastic, verbally abusive mob culture with its own brand of political correctness, and identify the maybe 20% of contributors who have something useful to say. And watch your step, as there isn't a particle of kindness to be found there.
No more about spammer-whacking here, please.
But please do continue to report any spams you see on the forum or in PM's.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:52 pm
by SidVicious
ABUSE REPORT - GADADAD - uid 14037
Reporting abuse from this user, let me know if you need the full header.
Code: Select all
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: PhpBB3
X-MimeOLE: phpBB3
X-phpBB-Origin: phpbb://foldingforum.org
X-AntiAbuse: Board servername - foldingforum.org
X-AntiAbuse: User_id - 14037
X-AntiAbuse: Username - GADADAD
X-AntiAbuse: User IP - 83.183.22.91
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - foldingforum.org
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain -
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32009 32011] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - foldingforum.org
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2009 16:45:46.0257 (UTC) FILETIME=[53E69010:01CA24DA]
Hello SidVicious,
The following is an e-mail sent to you by GADADAD via your account on "Folding Forum". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address:
[email protected]
Include this full e-mail (particularly the headers). Please note that the reply address to this e-mail has been set to that of GADADAD.
Message sent to you follows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi, I know that you are really good at Folding.
I have 66 000 points in folding@home and need 34 000 points more to get 100 000 points.
When I get 100 000 points I get "cowboy hat" in PR2.
So I wonder if you can give me 34 000 points.
If you do that, I will say to peoples that F@H is good and I want to tell them that your team is a good team.
Maybe I will switch over to your team, I fold 2500-5000 point on 24h (with a 9600 GT graphic card and a 2,33 Ghz Quad processor).
I send that message to more peoples than you, because I want to get 100 000 points faster, but if you want to fold for me I will remember you when I play PR2 and I will remember that you are a big reason to that I got Cowboy hat.
Team Number: 143016
User name: GADADAD
/GADADAD
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:05 pm
by toTOW
I got a PM from him too ... another people who only want a prize from his team ...
Tell him goodbye
edit : cleaned sent PM, and banned user.
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:58 pm
by SidVicious
Spamming a supermod ? What a dimwitted idea !
Hope his score gets zero'ed...
Re: Spam from Folders
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:01 am
by patonb
^Actually, this is how their whole site/team works. They get others on the website, its a flash gaming site, to fold for each other.
They've got 650ish users.....