My unwanted calls dropped 46% . My voice is warm so no one ever gets old feet. I just tell them hello so good to hear from you again.... what shall we talk about :) then we start chatting like old times. No fibben. Of course if they ask for my credit card or WU I go like dude you know I'm unemployed, why else would I be home in the middle of the day and chat with you for 25 minutes..... :))))
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NineLives
Yeah I'm looking forward to it as well. Yay!!!! :)))))
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NineLives
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Wolfie do you wanna start the thread ? You know like the one I did with the cancer scammers, Rose Perkins etc who got busted shortly thereafter? Make it easy to google. Then someone contact Linkedin. :))))
I was just looking over LinkedIn policies, and according to those policies, that account should be terminated, however I am having a problem actually figuring out how to notify them.
I am not so sure starting a forum thread about that is a good idea. It will give them some free publicity when the search engine results show it. But let me think about it overnight and I'll see if there is a way to word it to make them look really, really bad.
Cool... look forward to it! Oh and Wolfman thanks for taking care of this one. :-) I've been really scattered/distracted sorting out vacay pics and catching up on work-related reading.
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I will report that later, and I want to get a screen shot of it before it is taken down.
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WolfmanJack
Well I just shot off an e mail to the University of Amsterdam, because they should know about this.
Also just reported it to LinkedIn.
Not sure what else I can do, there is simply not a whole lot of information out there and without knowing where to look for company information. If anyone has a suggestion, i would be happy to do the research.
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William
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The spiel in those posts looks very familiar to me.
In 2009 I became very active answering questions on Yahoo Answers (YA). I noticed a lot of spam so I began reporting it. This type of spam was getting into every question posted in the financial category and a lot of other categories too. Sometimes there were two or more of the same content being posted to a question. It was very very BAD.
Then I found the suggestion board for YA and saw other people were posting links where the spam was located. The site had an automated system for reporting violations, and it took two reports from two different accounts to drop a post. They expanded on that giving some reporters (accounts) a high trust rating and their reports could instantly drop any post. So for several years I had a good time reporting spam when I was online at Yahoo Answers.
The spammers were relentless. There were even websites that sold software that could automate the process of posting "whatever". There just were not enough of us reporters to keep the spammers under control.
About a year after the current CEO of Yahoo took over, she began a redesign of YA to make it more compatible with smartphones and tablets. In the process the site became very buggy, slow, and difficult to use, and a lot of people gave up reporting spam. And the spammers roared in. I gave up on the website because of the slowness, the bugs, and the ugliness of its appearance on my desktop monitor.
800notes is now under the assault of these spammers. The owners / admins are going to have to make some changes to reduce the impact of these spammers :
Limits to the number of posts made by anyone not signed into an account. From what I have seen, most non-account people aren't going to post more than 5 a day.
Limits to the number of posts made by anyone who signs into an account. The limits will the same, and after a "
IP blocking for the high-volume postings (invoked only by the admins)
Write some software to make reporting by users quickly effective against spam Moderators who have "instant drop" on any post. Moderators need : Access to a list of every post made during a specific time period Flags that show which posts contain a link and/or an email address Show the entire contents of the post Direct link to the post, so the moderator does not have to look for it through several pages If a post is removed by a moderator, it will also be removed from that list
Admins get a "transaction record" of everything a moderator does so they can reverse a drop made in error ( making mistakes is SO easy when eagerly going after these high-volume spammers ... )
These high-volume spammers will eventually start posting in the numbered webpages. It will be hell on this site for a while.
Actually 800notes had been under assault by those spam bots (such as evidenced in the posts by "Cheryl") for the last 3 or 4 years ... it's just that some time in 2013 they seemed to have stopped ... until this latest barrage of illiterate 419 spam!
I've only been here for a couple of months, so I did not know about the past 3 or 4 years. Maybe the admins have been using IP blocking all this time to keep them under control.
I thought this site was unusually clean of spam ...
Yea, back then they pretty much hit the usa payday loan is a scam thread. Most of those old posts are gone now and maybe a few slipped by may still be up.
A bunch of us had a field day ripping up each post before they'd been removed. I'm just surprised to see them return and in an all out onslaught on many forum threads this time!
Getting past IP blocks means getting an unblocked IP address, and often that is done by hacking a website to use it for the delivery or renting an existing botnet to get hundreds of unblocked IP addresses. Admins will figure it out.
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haha
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If you have Selective Call Forwarding, do like I do and forward these callers to my State's Attorney General's office!
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