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Topic: Delete Spammers Emails

If this isn't in the software (didn't see it anywhere) I request it or I will have to create this myself. I'm getting a bunch of spammers whom unfortunately I cannot get close enough to them to break their fingers. They keep sending the same spam emails to a dozen members at a time. Limiting the number of messages sent per day doesn't help because if you say a member can only send 15 messages a day then you still have 15 spam messages sent that you have to manually delete from mysql in addition to deleting the user's account. I'm going to put a button next to each account that deletes all messages sent by a user in other users' folders.

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Re: Delete Spammers Emails

Hey Slinky

If you do create something, would you mind posting to help others. Dam spammers are tough to control. It wouldn't be too bad if they only pissed me off --  but when they tick off my members I hear the raft. By ticking off the members, they will eventually go away and your membership will shrink.

When it happens, I try to smooth it over with members telling them I have no crystal ball letting me know what a person's intentions are before they join.  That sometimes the only way to catch a spammer is after the fact.

I usually don't approve any account whose IP is from Africa, but the African spammers/scammers are getting wiser. They are now using proxies and a lot of them seem to be coming out of France but they are mixing it up enough to keep you off guard.

Good luck

Last edited by db3204 (2007-11-13 14:19:12)

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Re: Delete Spammers Emails

I'll probably create this next week if it doesn't happen. But there are a couple of things that are unfortunately necessary, such as easy IP banning. It's not so simple to do by the server when you have different scripts running and in some instances you can't ban all users from a certain country. In this instance such as dating, I can deny several countries where I know my demographic will very likely not originate from and would prefer to simply do it that way, including individual IPs and certain proxies. With dating scripts this is now a favorite target of spammers because they know there is a high incentive for users to read.  Worse, I have implemented SMS messaging so each time spammers hit people they may end up being charged for an SMS message as well. This makes spam prevention measures extremely essential.