Wetwork Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 It appears that we have some spammers and phishers on our beloved hack5 forums who are sending out PM's got this little peice of creativity this morning from maceylove12 Hello My name is Mercy i saw your profile today at hak5 and becameintrested in you,i will also like to know you the more, and i want you to send anemail to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address (mercymabou@yahoo.com) I believe we can move from here! I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.Mercy (Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alotin life.(mercymabou@yahoo.com). if this was a social engineer attack its one of the worst that i have ever seen. Has anyone else gotten on from this "member" and is it possible for the mods to ban this individual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 It's a spam bot, I got it to, It happens often here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I receive similar PMs on the various fora that I visit. My reaction depends upon my mood - sometimes I just delete them whilst other times I forward them to a mod so they can do whatever they feel is appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetwork Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 i just find it hilarious that they would even think to try this on a hackers site. talk about sticking your head in a pride of lions mouths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rkiver Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 It's a spam bot, it's been reported already on another part of the forum. In any case it's a "Ignore/Block PM sender" and report it to the admins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Please report spam users to mods or admins and we will review both the message and the user in question with a view to banning them. Please note, messages which do not include a forwarded PM will be ignored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lestock Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 We're working on getting a new version of the forum software installed, which should combat the issues with spam signups / topics and pm's But in the meantime, please report all these occurrences to the admin team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritchard9 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 We're working on getting a new version of the forum software installed, which should combat the issues with spam signups / topics and pm's But in the meantime, please report all these occurrences to the admin team. I hope this doesn't include banning members who use free email services, like hotmail or gmail, as their primary email address. As ridiculous as this sounds, I have seen this being implimented on other forums. But I have faith in hak5 to make the right choice. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I hope this doesn't include banning members who use free email services, like hotmail or gmail, as their primary email address. As ridiculous as this sounds, I have seen this being implimented on other forums. But I have faith in hak5 to make the right choice. :) Not on my watch it won't, this does nothing for anti-spam and largely just annoys the 90% of people who use free email. What we are likely to see is, I hope, word blacklisting, better sign-up protection, limiting of links in your initial posts and so forth. I still maintain that a vigilant set of human moderators is the best way to combat spam, relying on automation produces far to many false positives. As it stands, most spam on these forums is removed and the user banned very quickly, often less than an hour after it was posted. In fact, given this, I think this is why we are seeing a rise in spam user accounts and spam PM's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawty Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Iv'e just done the same with this as I do with all other spam bots. Gave it the email address of my "Spam P***er offer" :-) SOme time ago i set an email address up on my domain, called "spamoff@........" which goes to an eliza style AI chat/bot system, that basicly just argues with the senders, when replying it also ignores the sent from address, unless it can't find a server paper trail in the headers. This is not often since most Email servers publish "sent from... recived by... blah blah in thier headers..." Anyway it's great fun watching the logs sometimes, some of them really do believe that they are arguing with a human being :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberprinnyakatux Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 lol i like spam :) but not this kind :( i got it too... QQ (i know enough smilies) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Iv'e just done the same with this as I do with all other spam bots. Gave it the email address of my "Spam P***er offer" :-) SOme time ago i set an email address up on my domain, called "spamoff@........" which goes to an eliza style AI chat/bot system, that basicly just argues with the senders, when replying it also ignores the sent from address, unless it can't find a server paper trail in the headers. This is not often since most Email servers publish "sent from... recived by... blah blah in thier headers..." Anyway it's great fun watching the logs sometimes, some of them really do believe that they are arguing with a human being :-) Mate, that is awesome. Please put together a post about that in its own right, I really want to set something like that up myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rkiver Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Iv'e just done the same with this as I do with all other spam bots. Gave it the email address of my "Spam P***er offer" :-) SOme time ago i set an email address up on my domain, called "spamoff@........" which goes to an eliza style AI chat/bot system, that basicly just argues with the senders, when replying it also ignores the sent from address, unless it can't find a server paper trail in the headers. This is not often since most Email servers publish "sent from... recived by... blah blah in thier headers..." Anyway it's great fun watching the logs sometimes, some of them really do believe that they are arguing with a human being :-) Oh hell yes, guide for this please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetwork Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 YAY guides .....We like guides and if i find the F*cker who sent this, i will mail bomb the living hell out of him and root kit his/her system back to the stone age Does posting here for the world to see equal reporting it to the admins for action? or do i need to send a PM to Matt, Darren or VaKo? I do believe that all the relevant information has been posted or at least all the info that i have regarding this unwanted and annoying pm that i get with regular consistency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will-wtf Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I said tits or gtfo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle 2.0 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 wait..so I shouldn't have given her my phone number and asked her out to the movies? Damn, I knew anytime a girl approaches me its all too good to be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra Mike Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 i just find it hilarious that they would even think to try this on a hackers site. talk about sticking your head in a pride of lions mouths ROFL well said :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritchard9 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Not on my watch it won't, this does nothing for anti-spam and largely just annoys the 90% of people who use free email. What we are likely to see is, I hope, word blacklisting, better sign-up protection, limiting of links in your initial posts and so forth. I still maintain that a vigilant set of human moderators is the best way to combat spam, relying on automation produces far to many false positives. As it stands, most spam on these forums is removed and the user banned very quickly, often less than an hour after it was posted. In fact, given this, I think this is why we are seeing a rise in spam user accounts and spam PM's. I knew hak5 wouldn't do that. I just worried a little. Iv'e just done the same with this as I do with all other spam bots. Gave it the email address of my "Spam P***er offer" :-) SOme time ago i set an email address up on my domain, called "spamoff@........" which goes to an eliza style AI chat/bot system, that basicly just argues with the senders, when replying it also ignores the sent from address, unless it can't find a server paper trail in the headers. This is not often since most Email servers publish "sent from... recived by... blah blah in thier headers..." Anyway it's great fun watching the logs sometimes, some of them really do believe that they are arguing with a human being :-) +1 for the guides man! I said tits or gtfo! And LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Does posting here for the world to see equal reporting it to the admins for action? or do i need to send a PM to Matt, Darren or VaKo? Myself, Sparda, Digininja or Moonlit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetwork Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 Myself, Sparda, Digininja or Moonlit. So i take it that this issue has been reported then? considering that each one of you has seen this posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 So i take it that this issue has been reported then? considering that each one of you has seen this posting No, you never submitted the notified copy of form 38-c we requested along with the required witness statements and supporting evidence, we only got your self-signed copy of form 90a which serves as a notice to submit your request for consideration at the annual meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParMan Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Maybe she is hot though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 No, you never submitted the notified copy of form 38-c we requested along with the required witness statements and supporting evidence, we only got your self-signed copy of form 90a which serves as a notice to submit your request for consideration at the annual meeting. Don't forget the faxed copy of form R-9198F (revision B ) along side everything else.. And oh yeah, don't forget to brush your teeth B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 great forum topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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