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admin
Busy Member
Posts:148
 | | 04 Oct 2006 1:12 PM |
| Recently a number of members of the CLUAS board received spam emails from other members (emails that told them they could - cough, splutter - share in a few millions of squids, if only they first transferred a few grand to a bank account in Cote d'Ivoire or Nigeria or some place).
Anyway, the spamming members have been identified and their membership profile deleted.
I have also since implemented some new functionality at the back-end of the board that should remove the possibility (well, at least hugely reduce the likelihood) of this ever happening again. This new functionality is in addition to the already-existing anti-spam functions such as the obligation for new members to:
- Confirm their email address is an active account (by clicking on a unique link sent to their email address)
- Inputting during the sign-up process a unique number that can only be read by a human (which proves the membership account is not being set up by an automated 'spam bot')
Securely yours, etc.
eoghan | | | |
| Man in a can
Busy Member
Posts:106
| | 04 Oct 2006 2:11 PM |
| Automated Spambots, the world is going mad  | |
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| nessy05
Getting Into It Member
Posts:47
| | 04 Oct 2006 10:51 PM |
| | its not only this forum its happening through : ( | | | |
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