Re: Spam posts on the guest book

Brinkly · Postby **Brinkly** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:56 pm

anon wrote:Easy peasy.

The Guest Book does not require a user account, anyone can post here. This posting is an example.

Spammers employ people in cheap labour countries to spam forums, always assuming they've not cracked the "type in a few letters" codes with software.

( Really Nigel Cliffe, a legitimate user ).

Has this been stopped yet!?

Regards,

Nick

grovenor-2685 · Postby **grovenor-2685** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:34 pm

None of the moderators live on line, we can't delete them till they are seen.

Best to 'Report' it which might possibly get our attention a bit quicker.
Regards

Paul Willis · Postby **Paul Willis** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:46 pm

Brinkly wrote:
anon wrote:Easy peasy.

The Guest Book does not require a user account, anyone can post here. This posting is an example.

Spammers employ people in cheap labour countries to spam forums, always assuming they've not cracked the "type in a few letters" codes with software.

( Really Nigel Cliffe, a legitimate user ).

Has this been stopped yet!?

Hi Nick,

I'm afraid that it's virtually impossible to stop, as Nigel pointed out earlier. Those of us that respond to messages through the "Contact Form" on the website also get a fair number of these.

The answer, as always, is the [Delete] key.

Paul Willis
Marketing Manager

Brinkly · Postby **Brinkly** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:50 pm

Cheers gents.

I will do in the future!

Regards,

Nick

Scalefour Forum