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FYI Chockstoners - this weeks deletions, etc. 24-Oct-2018 At 10:54:23 AM Chockstone Moderator

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25/10/18 New user kontaykyb (registration 8352), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 37. IPs from many countries. No consistency otherwise. Coincidentally claims to be 37 years old.

2nd edit 25/10/18; New user StevenMog (registration 8353), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 110. Exclusively uses IPs from Ukraine (12665163 entries in database from Ukraine - 66.81 percent of total database). Fond of username prefix Steven and claims to be 38 years old.

Lately a pattern seems to be developing whereby the spammers are registering in small groups of two or three at a time.
The lack of cross-consistency in this latest instance has me thinking that they are different spammers, but have their own communication system.

Edit 26/10/18; New user Khalidu (registration 8354), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 56 (49 of them from yesterday alone). IPs from many countries. Fond of username prefix Khalid. 38 old.
Here is a typical report of one of those spams;

An automated registration attempt was detected by our honeypot on October 25th, 2018 at 19:01:43 UTC. The user agent was "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36".

- The bit about this report that I find interesting is that it was an automated registration attempt...
This would possibly explain the consistent claim of being 38 years old; and possibly also, the often delay involved between many registrations and any attempts of them posting* to this site, that are mostly pre-empted by my disabling of the account.

[*I'm still investigating how registering without posting benefits them, which is in marked contrast for example, to our usual (previous) fake documents, and removalists, garden variety spammers.]

2nd edit 26/10/18; New user TroykrimKl (registration 8355), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 18, of which all but one were the same IP from Belarus, the remaining being Russian Federation. Prefix consistent also, of Troykrim. 38 old.

Edit 30/10/18: New user RonaldKeymn (registration 8356), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 11. Russian IPs. Username prefix Ronald. 38 yo.
What? Four days of peace from spammers?
I was starting to have disablement button withdrawal symptoms!

2nd edit 30/10/18; New user brvntvsehw (registration 8357), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 99. IPs from many countries. Username prefix tends to cycle through three different gobbledygook ones. 38 yo.

The spammers seem to have gotten back to their usual form after I was beginning to feel that they had learnt to neglect us. It’d be interesting to be a fly on their wall when they go to follow up the registrations and find them useless after first thinking that they had successfully infiltrated our site.

Registration 8358 passed the SFS test.

Edit 31/10/18: New user AbercormHat (registration 8359), pre-emptively disabled. SFS 20. French IPs. User prefix Abercorm. 37 yo.