Fun with Spammers

[James Steele]

Just to show you how tenacious these guys are... I've had to start manually screening approvals to join this forum. If I see a screen name that sets off warning bells, I will send an email to try and ascertain if they are "real" or a spammer. Usually, the spammers all have gmail.com addresses.

So I send my "screening" email to one of them and I get this reply back. Note he says "Legal Pro" instead of "Logic Pro." I approved, but also replied and told him if he spammed the board it would be taken down quickly and he'd be deleted.

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So a few hours later I check the board with Tapatalk and see this:

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These people just blow my mind!

[monkey man]

Do you click applicants' IP addresses to check the spam-list databases James?

We've had to resort to that over at Rig Talk.

If 3 or more lists are red-flagged it's generally a no-no, although we try to take other things into account as well, such as whether or not a non-VPN applicant's geographic area matches his / her stated location in his / her profile.

I say, "3 or more lists" 'cause perfectly-fine addresses can end up on said lists. I checked my own just for beer and skittles and whaddayaknow, I showed up on one.

[Rick Cornish]

What a pain. Thank you, James for dealing with this stuff and keeping MOTUnation such a great place for DP users.

[Killahurts]

Wow, I had a flash of Robert Di Niro as Louis Cypher..

Yes, thanks for sparing us all this James, I'm sure you have to do a lot more of it than you tell us about.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Please don't block anyone with spells for stardom, fame and fortune... especially the fortune part.