Scammers Lately

[BubblesAviation]

This morning, I checked my phone to see 50 scammer threads in the airport section. This has been happening a lot lately, and not only am I asking to restrict bots, but I’m no moderator, but please report the accounts and the threads. This has been making me really mad this past week.

Thank you!

 

[Critical Aviator]

They're so annoying. I've already lost count on how many of those dump accounts/bots I reported today alone. I feel bad for the moderators who will have to take care of those accounts.

 

[BubblesAviation]

Report @gordongarr12. He was scam threads going up every minute or so.

 

[Critical Aviator]

Report @gordongarr12. He was scam threads going up every minute or so.

I just reported him (or it if it's a bot). I might have done it twice idk .

 

[OllieBHaas25]

Yeah I noticed this this morning. We had a good run without them but I guess they’re back.

 

[Critical Aviator]

Report @gordongarr12. He was scam threads going up every minute or so.

Looks like he has been removed.

 

[JJ Skippy]

That was an awful thing to wake up to. I alerted Connor and I also see Leo’s online getting to them as we speak.

 

[Critical Aviator]

They're gone now ! Thanks moderators !

 

[LeoMuse747]

WOW. This was truly the biggest bot attack i've had to deal with 3 bot accounts and more than 50 threads created. And the bots create multiple threads in just minutes!!!

Sadly, as a moderator, I can only ban the accounts and delete threads. I wish the forum developers could use Human Verification steps to prevent this kind of attacks. These bots are always creating multiple threads usually on early morning (when activity in the forum is low), and they also have some pretty generic usernames: usually lowercase names and numbers, like "gigi65" or "johndoe65", so it's kinda easy to spot them. I once managed to ban a bot as soon as it posted the first thread. It was quite funny

By the way, thanks for the reports, but they are unnecessary actually, because the first thing I do every day is to check all the threads/sections using the "What's New" option, to see if there's bot activity. So, with or without reports, I'll always be on the lookout for them.

 

[BubblesAviation]

Thank you guys so much!