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Topic: Spammer broke topic

Posted By: MortiOli
Subject: Spammer broke topic
Date Posted: 17 September 2009 at 9:59pm

Any ideas what's happened here:

http://www.ckyalliance.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10563&title=uk-hotel" rel="nofollow - http://www.ckyalliance.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10563&title=uk-hotel

1) A spammer somehow got through the CAPTCHA (maybe a real person signing up)

2) The topic / style has broken!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 September 2009 at 9:19am

With CAPTCHA and email activation enabled on your forum then it will be a real person signing up to write the spam post.

As most forums have these types of setting nearly all forum spam these days it from real people. In some 3rd world countries you even have sweat shop style workshops of people being paid a few cents each day to go around spamming forums, web forms, blogs, and anything else they can find.

The issue with the formatting is because of the way the post was copied and pasted from an Apple Mac document, which has thrown the page styling out.

The simplest thing to do is delete the post and then suspend the members account as that will prevent them signing up again using the same email address.

The following document gives information on how to protect your forum from spam:-

http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 18 September 2009 at 9:27am

The "spammer" added some HTML tags to their post.

Maybe due to copy and paste?

As its safe HTML (a few cells) the forum didnt remove it, though I noticed it may of removed a part of it.

see here:

<td width="127"><p>
    </p></td>
            <td ="" width="273">

and this at the end of the post:

</p></td>

If you view the source you'll see the problem.

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 18 September 2009 at 6:19pm

It would be simple just to delete that topic

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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 20 September 2009 at 5:24pm

No offence, but I do realise I could have deleted the post and banned the member, and do realise that it would most likely be a human signing up to post. However, I was bringing the formatting issue to WWG attention, as it may be some code which has been missed in testing, and should be filtered out.

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 20 September 2009 at 6:27pm

Sorry MortiOli - I was just saying, but fair point and yes having looked back at again (when eyes are not tired and brain not knackered) your posting does make good sense

I guess as with all packages of software, someone else will always try to find a way to upset what should be for most of us mere mortals, brilliance at its best. Spammers make me sick

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