Fake diplomas and Transcripts for sale.

[mikedt]

Ugh, just blasted about 50 more spam posts in the past 4 minutes

So all the forum has to do is to automatically stop or block rapid fire multiple posting, especially from new("lurker") members. At least that will stop the deluge I see on AF most mornings and afternoons. I report it when I see it, but then I just go do something else because the forum is unusable and can't see new genuine posts or replies or anything, until a mod clears it

About blocking Chinese, there has been similar spam in other languages, like Korean, Hindi, Arabic, and English as well.

 

[mikedt]

I acknowledged that:
"I understand that filters could be difficult to write, because you don't want legitimate posts flagged/zapped..."

But the specific posts I referred to should lend themselves to some automated handling. They're long-ish posts, all in Chinese save for one or two English words; that pattern should be filterable, as should the actual content of the posts. I believe @mikedt could help with the latter. (Hey, Mike, hope you don't mind me volunteering you! )

I'm not looking to incite a riot or anything here, so if you guys don't think it's feasible, or whatever, that's cool.

AFAICT the spam fake diploma and transcript posts are in Simplified Chinese using Guobiao (GB) encoding. If that can be detected and blocked or not by forum software, I don't know. But then there are the Indian and Korean forum spammers as well.

 

[PitCarver]

If you see it, report it. If its spam we'll deal with it appropriately. FWIW, it looks like we got hammered pretty good overnight.

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