Timeline for Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
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| Jul 8, 2023 at 9:46 | comment | added | djdomi | i added oyur suggestion by edit ;-) | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 9:45 | history | edited | djdomi |
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 12:14 | comment | added | Martin | I'd say that the tag (spam) seems suitable for this question. (I do not have sufficient reputation to edit on meta, so I mentioned this in a comment instead.) | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 10:52 | comment | added | Greg Askew | Can we get an update on the Janitor.exe status on the "Loan" spam? Maybe some AI tools would do the trick. | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 15:32 | comment | added | Makyen | @GregAskew Nope, those aren't just tests. The spam posts shown in the question's screenshot are part of the "Support Number spam" that's been ongoing for a couple/few years now on basically all sites in the SE network, with several thousand identified spam posts. Under normal conditions, the combination of SmokeDetector and metasmoke results in them being rapidly identified and quickly nuked with a mix of automatic and manual spam flags, which prevents most users from being impacted by the vast majority of straight-up spam that makes it past SE's SpamRam to be posted on the SE Network. | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 3:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 15, 2023 at 12:16 | comment | added | Paul |
The real spam to SF users will include a link to easydatabasefix.xyz, where you go to download and install their free program to automagically fix your broken database, or something similar, and they are posted as answers, not questions.
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| Jun 14, 2023 at 17:37 | comment | added | djdomi | @GregAskew as I always read your post on sf and smile every day about ;) | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 7:14 | history | edited | djdomi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2023 at 4:38 | answer | added | CatijaStaff | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 11:07 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jun 13, 2023 at 7:08 | comment | added | Greg Askew | This isn't spam. No-one wants to buy any of these services. It could be a spammer smoke testing their trash. It's basically a malicious person saying they know one or two of the thirty or so things that aren't checked in the post pipeline that would prevent junk from being submitted. It's like the people that install a VPN client on a server then ask why the routing table changed. Those questions will still be asked several times per week 20 years from now. | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 6:23 | history | edited | djdomi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2023 at 5:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 13, 2023 at 5:35 | answer | added | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 5:25 | comment | added | Nikita Kipriyanov | I mean, there is mention of Charcoal, which is doing a SmokeDetector, a machine that flagged these things automatically. But it is now participating in a moderator strike on the subject of AI-generated content policy, so probably it doesn't cast flags. That's how I understand the situation. | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 5:22 | comment | added | Nikita Kipriyanov | Does this answer your question? Homepage spammed | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 4:24 | history | asked | djdomi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |