GMail Users!! Read This!

[lordtygr]

Tonight, i spent almost 2 hrs IP banning suspected spammers. almost 30 of our "members" were suspected spammers. one of the main things in common with EVERY one of them? They ALL had GMail Addresses. For that Reason, i am banning all email address from joining the site that uses @gmail.com. if you are already on the site, you may not have any problems, but if you can't seem to log in, let me know and I'll get you fixed up. In the meantime, i suggest getting a new email address, there's plenty of free ones out there. worst case scenario i may be able to set you up with an address: @houstonlancers.com. but that is strictly case by case basis and i am not saying that it is something i will definitely do, so don't ask me for one, just because

[Golyadkin]

How'd you know they were spammers? I've never seen any spamming on the site.

[lordtygr]

I guess you could say that I figured them out before they could cause any damage. I was noticing how we had over 70 members yet there is still only a certain group of people that have ever posted. I then looked at the dates they joined the siteand date they were last active. most of them were last active between a couple of minutes to two hours after they first joined the site. I then started noticing that many of them shared the same IP address. I set one in my browser and luckily firefox blocked It as a known attack site. I then ran a /whois on the IP addresses and saw they were mostly coming from Russia, Latvia, and other European contries. next I typed the IPs into google to see what would come up. all sorts of forum security websites came up listing the IP addresses as known threats. out of almost 30 members that I IP banned from the site, only about 7 actual IP addresses are on the list if that tells you anything. there are still a few members I'm not sure about but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as I was not able to fnd enough concerete evidence to ban them.

[Golyadkin]

Wow. Way to go man. Good job.

[olvhec]

Sounds like you had some fun without me lol.

[lordtygr]

LOL. it wasn't fun. but it was strangely satisfying. LOL

[olvhec]

Yeah being successful at finding some "bad guys" must have been, good job detective lol.

[Prophet]

lol... I hate spammers... I fight it almost every day...