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Post by sean » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:20 pm

Hi,
While browsing the membership list recently, I noticed a whole raft of new members in such countries as Ukraine, Germany, Benin and USA. Glad to hear the Swift community is spreading.... unless this is some scam to get our e-mails?
Sean
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Post by Phil De Troy » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:48 pm

I'm afraid there are several bad guys within there new "members"...
I found that, by experience, you can find reports about their actvity, just typing their e-mail adress on Google. Then you have a list of "anti-scam forums" and I'm afraid most of them should be banned. However Germany is not impossible.

Phil
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Subject: [Swift 18] new members


Hi,
While browsing the membership list recently, I noticed a whole raft of new members in such countries as Ukraine, Germany, Benin and USA. Glad to hear the Swift community is spreading.... unless this is some scam to get our e-mails?
Sean



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dancrane
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Post by dancrane » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:31 pm

Hello Mr De Troy,

I'm not sure quite why I received this last message from you. Earlier today, I had asked a member of the Swift 18 website, with the user-name "Windsong", for any help he or she could give me, in respect of starting a new thread on the Swift forum. Later, I found how to do it without assistance. I hope mr windsong didn't assume my enquiry was in any way mischievous? And if you are a Swift 18 site administrator, I hope I haven't earned myself a bad reputation? My email to him, and this one to you, was based on a totally genuine query.

Thank you for your time,

Dan Crane


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Subject: [Swift 18] Re: new members
From: forum-general@swift18.org
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:27:02 +0000

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I found that, by experience, you can find reports about their actvity, just typing their e-mail adress on Google. Then you have a list of "anti-scam forums" and I'm afraid most of them should be banned. However Germany is not impossible.

Phil
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From: sean (forum-general@swift18.org)
To: forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org)
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: [Swift 18] new members


Hi,
While browsing the membership list recently, I noticed a whole raft of new members in such countries as Ukraine, Germany, Benin and USA. Glad to hear the Swift community is spreading.... unless this is some scam to get our e-mails?
Sean








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Post by noodle » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:55 pm

Hi,

This forum gets about 50 new member requests a day from the 'bad guys', the majority of which are automatically rejected by some filtering I have put in place which compares the member request against 'bad guy' databases. There are a few which get through, so once a month I go through and manually remove them. Although they are listed as new members they cannot actually post on the forum.

Andy


On 02/02/2011 22:27, Phil De Troy wrote:
I'm afraid there are several bad guys within there new "members"...
I found that, by experience, you can find reports about their actvity, just typing their e-mail adress on Google. Then you have a list of "anti-scam forums" and I'm afraid most of them should be banned. However Germany is not impossible.

Phil
: ----- Original Message -----
From: sean (forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org))
To: forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org) (forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org))
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: [Swift 18] new members


Hi,
While browsing the membership list recently, I noticed a whole raft of new members in such countries as Ukraine, Germany, Benin and USA. Glad to hear the Swift community is spreading.... unless this is some scam to get our e-mails?
Sean








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dancrane
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Post by dancrane » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:31 am

That's fine. Thanks. I'd no idea sites were under attack this way.

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Subject: [Swift 18] Re: new members
From: forum-general@swift18.org
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:58:15 +0000

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This forum gets about 50 new member requests a day from the 'bad guys', the majority of which are automatically rejected by some filtering I have put in place which compares the member request against 'bad guy' databases. There are a few which get through, so once a month I go through and manually remove them. Although they are listed as new members they cannot actually post on the forum.

Andy


On 02/02/2011 22:27, Phil De Troy wrote: : I'm afraid there are several bad guys within there new "members"...
I found that, by experience, you can find reports about their actvity, just typing their e-mail adress on Google. Then you have a list of "anti-scam forums" and I'm afraid most of them should be banned. However Germany is not impossible.

Phil
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To: forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org) (forum-general@swift18.org (forum-general@swift18.org))
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: [Swift 18] new members


Hi,
While browsing the membership list recently, I noticed a whole raft of new members in such countries as Ukraine, Germany, Benin and USA. Glad to hear the Swift community is spreading.... unless this is some scam to get our e-mails?
Sean








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