Spammers' IPs - Time to Fight Back

[shahzadmasih]

Hi, this post is very informative; however I would like some specific information. If someone can help me then please send me a private message. Best Regards,

<mod edit>

[email]forums2@imzeeconsulting.com[/email]
[email]forums2@imzeeconsulting.com[/email]
[email]forums2@imzeeconsulting.com[/email]
[email]forums2@imzeeconsulting.com[/email]

202.*42.*7*.2*2
202.*42.*7*.2*2
202.*42.*7*.2*2
202.*42.*7*.2*2

SPAM ME!

</mod edit>

[Ezekiel]

Hi, this post is very informative; however I would like some specific information. If someone can help me then please send me a private message. Best Regards,

Just die, spammer. Right now.

Your businesses are doomed to fail if you have to use spam to attract ********s. Successful businesses offer either a unique product or service, or a product or service at much cheaper price than others. Word of mouth should be enough if you are such a business.

Edit: god damn it, I just realised my post count moved off ***7 .

[goldjothi]

There is not one single silver bullet solution that will fix the spam problem on its own, it's the combination of road blocks you put up that make it too time consuming (i.e. not profitable) for the spammer(s) to continue, I know this from experience because I'm a security consultant, I get paid to fix problems like this and believe me this is a minor one here that would take very little time to correct. The only reason I posted is because I have used this site in the past to gather information about the spammers and hackers I battle every day and I just wanted to return the favor.

[pekokope]

[deviant]

I have found that most of spammers IP's are fake.

We are fighting an endless battle at work at the moment with attached PDFs containing StockMarket info.
The weird thing is that they are named after the user i.e. username-invoice.pdf
I have stopped exchange server from relaying (i think) but it just gets worse.
TrendMicro can block attachments with certain names that you setup but it sends a email to the user everytime it blocks one. Its just as bad as the original spam message. I have disabled notification but they still get through (the messages)

[ibionika]

I tried this. When I tried to drag them back into outlook express, the eml files went into a New

Message. Any advice, anyone?

Thanks for replying Coop.

[Blereete73]

Only kidding. Ive obviously spent too much time with Squiffy, Rich, and * today. As soon as Squiffs finds the FAQs and learns how to moderate a ***rd...

[akitodito]

So, presumably you have the updater installed?

Have you tried disabling the use of Internet Guide? This is covered in their documentation and in various posts here - Im happy to point you to the relevant information if you cant find it but please dont make multiple, identical, posts.

[D.Parker]

Thanks for all your feedbacks. We've already fixed several issues on the forum, and surely will continue to make it better and more convenient. Currently we're focused on fighting spam and now are looking for solutions that would really work against spambots. If you have any - feel free to PM me, I'd kindly appreciate it.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks for all your feedbacks. We've already fixed several issues on the forum, and surely will continue to make it better and more convenient. Currently we're focused on fighting spam and now are looking for solutions that would really work against spambots. If you have any - feel free to PM me, I'd kindly appreciate it.

I don't know if it's been s***ested in this thread yet, but 'textual confirmation' mods work really well against spammers. I've installed one on my forum and I get about 5 emails per day informing me of spam accounts that this mod has caught and blocked.

Basically, you install the mod and you specify questions only answerable by humans. An example: "What is the capital of Australia?". If these are not answered on registration, the account is not created.

I've only done this on PHPBB, but there's probably something similar for vBulletin.