Well. I see the slime trolls have struck again. I presume our leadership will take down these badly done sales pitches for meds, probably from India from a few words I noted. I could be very wrong about that location. To the I charge script kiddies (how's that for an undeserved insult Piper?).......when I touched Karen's name, her page opened show casing the latest insults posted to her account. Is it possible for admin to over ride the account and delete these and the other similar posts that were made to the account in the past? Is it possible to override and lock the account so we don't lose her stories, but keep the idiots from sneaking in again?
Karen West
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These assholes are not using Karen West's user account to post this stuff. They are simply making new accounts and then marking their posts in the author field as being by Karen West. They do this by just hitting K on the keyboard when over the rollover.
We have several anti-spam defenses, some of which cost us money. Four or five pieces of processed lunch meat get thru every week or so but HUNDREDS are stopped before they show up on site.
It's the internet, Jake.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Not too bad
It's annoying that sleezy companies keep doing that. The defences here are quite good. Actually, the fact that they keep using Karen West's name helps. By now we are aware of the scam. Erin & co takes them down quite quickly.
Thank you!
Karen West
Maybe if Karen would be willing to change her handle?
The Karen West
Real Karen West
or some others.
Thanks for all the wonderful work you do to have a nice place.
Hugs and Love tmf
Parked my Domain
They were using my domain as a return address for all their spam, virus, and con hooks. The hate mail was flooding me so I parked it. Sadly not possible with BCTS or any domain that provides a service. I pray someday soon there is an AI join us in the fight against all the crooks who prey on the innocent people. Nuke their computers would make me pleased.
Hugs to all the hard working ladies and guys who work so hard to keep BCTS open.
Barb
God, we could use some help in some of these situations.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Be carefull of false positives
For many years I have operated my own e-mail server. In that time I have seen the Internet evolve from a fairly respectful place to a “wild west” anarchy and the downright hostility and danger we see today.
Because of the ease of spoofing and therefor false positives I got blacklisted several times.
I also got accused of spamming when reporting spam to the respective “abuse@” address. Again because of the ease of spoofing.
On one hand I empathize with your sentiment of nuking the scammers computers. But on the other hand I have to warn you against automated retaliation, because inevitably you will get quite a number of false positives and cause so-called “friendly fire casualties”.
Running a site is not easy
I want to echo Erin's points. I run my own WordPress blog that is hosted on an Intel NUC that sits on a shelf in my home office. My firewall rules now block around 12% of the whole internet. I have scripts that perform an analysis on the system logs every day and add the nasty sites that try to hack, scrape or generally penetrate my site to the firewall rules. Those scripts have over 100 rules in them. It all takes time and yes, I do occasionally block a site that I should not block.
I tip my hat to Erin and the elves who look after this site. Most people have no idea what is needed to keep a site like this up and running.
Samantha
Thanks, Samantha
I've never tried to run any sort of site, and I found your explanation of some of the security protocols you have to use very helpful. For me, doing anything online is a bit like driving a car. I know how to operate it if everything works the way it's supposed to. When it doesn't, though, I need to get help.
Emma