Russian Spam Attempt Today

[dalbert]

Some folks have wondered why the site has a 3 question challenge prior to allowing registration, and why memberships are not automatically approved. I manually approve all new memberships before they can post. Today is the reason. When I went to check the queue, which I check about every other day, there were 60 new memberships to approve. Most were automatically banned by the system software due to known spamming e-mail addresses. Most had e-mail addresses that ended in .ru. Usually, there are just a few new membership approvals in the queue, so it was obvious to me when I saw the chart spike, that there was a problem. Anyway, I'm still in the process of deleting those accounts. I also just updated one of the challenge questions.

 

We have several Russian members, and I welcome anyone in the world who has a legitimate interest in the subject, but this was obviously a spam attempt. We've had a few of them over the years.

 

Here's a fun example of one of the e-mail addresses:

 

"verik-zasamar@zaim-fart.ru"

 

David Albert

dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

[bug]

Have you notified Mueller?

 

Bob D

[Vettom]

He probably wont read it or cant

Thanks for all that you do David

Edited July 26, 2019 by Vettom

[Motorcar]

Proof that Trump is a Russian agent.

 

Thanks Dave for keeping us going!

[snipershot1944]

Maybe they are trying to sell some of the Russian Lend Lease Thompsons.

[StrangeRanger]

It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites

[2ndArmored]

It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites

 

The Uzi came from a Jewish inventor - Of course he'd reject spam!

[lightguy]

It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites

 

So you're saying we missed out ?

[Merry Ploughboy]

It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites

 

I'm not surprised. I got concerned about the security of the Uzitalk website a while ago, and quit going there altogether early this year.

[R67]

Thanks to David for keeping this forum well-moderated. Must be kind of a second job with no pay. Thanks Dalbert.

[Adg105200]

Good catch David! Thanks for all you do to keep this forum clean!

 

Andrew

[Baltimoreed11754]

Thanks for fighting the fight, my son used to work IT at the Fort Worth Zoo. He told me that he would spend hours every day deleting junk and porn that would be in the zoo’s incoming every day just to get to the legitimate emails.