Spam report

[kiwisue]

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[mab_browne]

One of the TS comms got hit by a vid spammer as well. Eternal vigilance etc, etc, it would seem.

[kiwisue]

Indeed. Thanks to prompt reporting I was able to delete the post quickly (also helped that I was up a few hours past my usual bedtime). But it still has a *lot* of comms listed on its profile.

[reera_the_red]

There's apparently a spate of these going on. One of the MFU communities was hit by the same thing yesterday, but with a different user id. These are probably spambots, and odds are we'll be seeing more of them; these things usually go in clusters.

[kiwisue]

The other name I saw reported was angie*pritchard. Same journal contents (embedded vids linked to dodgy sites) & subscribed to 1000+ comms. There may well be more out there. I'm keeping an eye on new subscriptions just in case.

[reera_the_red]

The one in the MFU comm was janetweber356. Same stuff. There can be any number of ids involved, since a bot can autogenerate them as needed.

[kiwisue]

Time to exercise a bit of extra vigilance, obvs. At this stage the mods really don't want to change the membership policy or do anything to impede the free flow of genuine posts and comments, so I sincerely hope we can ride this out without further problems.

[firlefanzine]

Thank you for telling us!
Although I pay attention 'normally', I was a bit careless with Pros communities up until now... :-O

[kiwisue]

I think prosficspoilers was OK. Very annoying!

[norfolkdumpling]

These bots are a proper pest aren't they? Thanks for the heads-up - it is in our memberlist but we'd already banned and reported it, thank goodness. While you're banning it here, don't forget to separately remove its posting access via your memberlist - for some reason banning the user doesn't always do this. Another LJ quirk! :)

[kiwisue]

I'd originally done the first (removed posting access) before realising that there was nothing to stop it rejoining. So yeah - it isn't always easy to work out all the steps of what needs to be done!

[gillyp]

All my comedy coms were hit by the same git. I reported them too, hopefully they'll be disbarred (till they come back under a fresh persona)

[kiwisue]

The particular spammer who hit the_safehouse appears to have majored in Brit comms for some reason. LJ's abuse process moves at the pace of an elderly snail, but hopefully they'll do something soon on this one.