Fake User Accounts and Spam Profiles -- Tips and Advice from Google

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  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Damn Google Webmaster blog's down.

    Any way, I usually keep these accounts cleaned off my forums. anything thats a spammer just gets deleted 100% from the system
     
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    The article pointed out that you can't always tell which are spam accounts right away; spammers sometimes use realistic names and data and quietly post their links on their profile page.
     
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    This reminds me of my PM spammer I had a few months ago. The guy joined up and would spam members using PMs. I found out when they PMed my test accounts and friends accounts.
     
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    I don't even have my forums up and running as such, but am having problems with people joining who seem to have no interest other than selling porn or some such. I keep deleting their accounts, they come back, at this point I am thinking having a forum is a bad idea all round. How can you control who can join etc?
     
  6. Nick

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    What forum software are you using?
     
  7. MjrNuT

    MjrNuT Grand Master

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    Looks like phpbb from the postbit.
     

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