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Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 17:37
by ronczap
I've noticed a lot of new members joining today and each one of them shows that their first name is the same as their last name.

Looks like some sort of BOT at work...

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 17:57
by ronczap
Looking at the bottom of the member list and browsing backwards it looks line over 360 new members have been added since Feb 20 and clicking on the names shows first-name = last-name...

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 20:19
by botg
Thank you, the offending IP address has been banned and all users created by it have been deleted.

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 20:23
by ronczap
botg wrote:Thank you, the offending IP address has been banned and all users created by it have been deleted.
Glad I could help!

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 20:26
by ronczap
I think there may still be some left - the earliest on I see is #64457 on the member list.
Make that #64444

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 20:35
by botg
Gone as well.

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 21:00
by ronczap
Still finding more

Michele3
GEFTabit
IveySell
DottyCar
RolandMa
KellyFla
DianaX78
RandallU
LiliaWil
etc

Maybe some were set up with a different IP

I'm sure you can identify faster than I can - maybe scanning for members with first name = last name

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-22 22:35
by botg
Gone.

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-23 00:34
by ronczap
botg wrote:Gone as well.
Wow - that cut the member count in half!

I wonder what the rational was for setting up all of the bogus accounts - Denial of Service attack or something? Who knows...

Re: Flood of new members today - a Bot at work?

Posted: 2018-02-23 07:33
by botg
Spambots are written by the most inept people. They are too incapable to become regular software developers. It shows in the quality of the spambots.