NOTICE: TNSALE scammers and spammers

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These guys are hitting us and many other forums with up to 20 separate user signups and up to 400 posts a day.

Members, please:

Do not click on the links in these spammers ads, they are scammers. You will lose your money.

Do not post a comment in their threads.

Do click on the report post button (the one with the exclamation point) so that we can delete them. You only need to report a user name one time, not every one of the posts you find.


To TNSALE: Although I do not own any weapons myself, I do live in Texas and have a whole ton of friends with shotguns.
 

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Great post, bobtomay. These guys would not be hitting us this hard if they weren't getting something out of it.

It's imperative that you not click any of their links or even browse their site. If they see increased traffic that is routed from Mac-Forums, that just gives them more reason to dump here.
 
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Thanks for posting this. I bet most new people on the forum think that the advertising are legit though. I almost did, but cwa107 pointed me in the right direction :)
 
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Never even looked at one, because when there are so many you kind of know, but nice post. Educate the masses.
 

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This guy is one persistent bugger. If you could see the amount of effort we've put in to try to shut him out, you'd be amazed.

I agree with bobtomay, but I'd take it a step farther and carpet bomb the city this guy lives in. ;)
 
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Well, I know one guy with a tank.
 

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To TNSALE: Although I do not own any weapons myself, I do live in Texas and have a whole ton of friends with shotguns.

I agree with bobtomay, but I'd take it a step farther and carpet bomb the city this guy lives in. ;)

Well, I know one guy with a tank.

Remind me not to get on your bad side gentlemen. ;)

So I assume this is the same group that is the cause of 50% of my new posts to be the same guy (not so far to day though).
 
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Where is that Mac Forums clone site with all the spam advertisements? They should go there...>_>"
 

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Where is that Mac Forums clone site with all the spam advertisements? They should go there...>_>"

I sure wish they would!! :D

That site would welcome them with open arms.
 

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@Bob Don't you know you are not allowed to live in the Lone Star State without owning at least one firearm. lol
 
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What is the website doing to prevent spam and spambots?
 

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They are at it again. >_> They sure don't give up.
 

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What is the website doing to prevent spam and spambots?

I'd rather not get into the details here, lest we give them some idea of what to do to thwart what we already have in place.
 
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I'd rather not get into the details here, lest we give them some idea of what to do to thwart what we already have in place.

That is completely understandable.

As long as something is being done! :)
 
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After taking Saturday off - that's what they do each week, they are back today - so just a heads up for those that have not seen this thread yet.
 
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After taking Saturday off - that's what they do each week, they are back today - so just a heads up for those that have not seen this thread yet.

Its getting to the point that I dont even notice them any longer.

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These posts annoy the crap out of me! There are mornings that I come on and this is all that I see. I have reported a few in my time here.

Is there not a way to prevent new users from posting for say 24 hours or something? If they were not able to post right away would they really stay around?
 

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These posts annoy the crap out of me! There are mornings that I come on and this is all that I see. I have reported a few in my time here.

Is there not a way to prevent new users from posting for say 24 hours or something? If they were not able to post right away would they really stay around?

The delay will definitely help, but the downside is that a lot of new Mac owners will have to wait and can't get the immediate help that they might need..

No real way around spammers..they always try to find a way to get through..

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