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Another 419 spammer

January 26th 2007 16:53
Hi Jon, some more private message spam for you.

The user's name was "goodthing".

January 26th 2007 16:03
From: Ms. Gloria Mumah
Sender: goodthing

From Ms. Gloria Mumah (gloria_mumah07@yahoo.fr)

Dear,
I am introducing my self as Ms. Gloria Mumah, the only Dauther of late Chief and Mrs Jonathan Mumah, I wish to request for your assistance in a financial transaction. I got your contact from a member of this your site, And I wish to invest in Manufacturing and real estate management in your country.

I have ($12.200,000) (Twelve Miliion two hundred thousand united states dollars only)to invest in your country, and I will require your assistance in receiving the funds in your personal/company account for investment, I will be gladly to give you 10% of the total sum for your assistance once the money get's to your account in your country.

please it is very important you contact me immediately on my private email (gloria_mumah07@yahoo.fr) for further explanation on how we will proceed.
Awaiting your immediate response
Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards
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Comment by The Daily Sonnet

January 26th 2007 17:44
I got the same thing...mayb there should be a minimum karma level before sending personal messages is allowed.

Comment by dementia

January 26th 2007 17:51
I also got that spam. Grrr

Comment by Adrian

January 26th 2007 18:15
I dunno about a minimum karma level. It's one good method, but I also like the thought that any random can send me a private message if they have something on their mind.

Comment by Nina

January 26th 2007 21:13
I got it as well. You have to wonder why they bother, surely no one falls for this any more (if ever)?

Comment by TonyK

January 27th 2007 00:38
I got the same message

Comment by jon

January 27th 2007 05:44
It is very hard to stop this kind of thing. A couple of possible ideas:

Limit the number of different people you can PM within a 24 hour period. What should this number be? Does not stop people signing up for more than one account though.

Or we could just limit the number of PM's for members with a Karma under a certain threshold that are less than a couple weeks old.

Have a reporting system where if a PM is reported as being spam by someone then that account is flagged for attention and all other PM's from that person are flagged.

Install a spam filter of some sort. These work well but usually need a large training set to do so. I'm not sure how well they would work on Orble.

Any other ideas?

Jon.

Comment by Adrian

January 27th 2007 07:33
Hey Jon, I don't know how serious a problem it is. I've been here going on six months, and have received maybe two spam messages in that time.

How about this? -- A default daily cap of 5 personal messages for users with karma of 2 or 1.

If you're very PM-active, I'd imagine you're going to have at least 3 karma...

Comment by Ahmed

January 27th 2007 12:06
How about image verification for PM's?


Comment by Cibbuano

January 28th 2007 21:48
I think Adrian's solution is a viable one...


Comment by jon

January 28th 2007 22:30
Agreed. I'll do that.

Ahmed -- we will try the cap first and if it looks like they are signing up and sending messages automatically we will introduce image verification somewhere in the process.

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