gallery moderators - re spam flooding
Hi moderators (and other interested folks), Just a heads up for moderators. You may have seen the spam which came in today (if it hasn't already been deleted by now). Five separate uploads, each into a different category (even in the pastebin!) advertising a toll free phone number for tech support for Malewarebytes (MBAM).
Since I've known mbam to be an excellent and reputable anti-malware program, I was shocked. I had to investigate. As it turns out, the spam isn't coming from the mbam community. They are the target, or victim, and yes, along with us and our gallery.
Anyway, long story short, there's a rash or outbreak of a type of spam known as "spam flooding" throughout the internet. It's happening in forums, galleries, and email....social media too, I suppose. The spammers typically post several to many identical messages, in one go. And most commonly it gives a toll free phone number, offering software support or customer service. (And lord only knows what's on the other end of that number!) And many, many businesses, corporations, products, whether software or otherwise are being targetted by this.
Well, all we really can do at this point, is be vigilant. Thanks for your help :-)
All best, brynn
Yeah, on launchpad in the answers section, it's often hundreds of identical messages, these last years. Hard to find the real ones. But launchpad has gotten faster in removing them.
At inkscape.org, I guess it's still posted manually, by a real person, currently. Might be the downloads are infected... Don't open to look, please, in these cases.
Maren
Am 02.02.2018 um 02:33 schrieb brynn:
Hi moderators (and other interested folks), Just a heads up for moderators. You may have seen the spam which came in today (if it hasn't already been deleted by now). Five separate uploads, each into a different category (even in the pastebin!) advertising a toll free phone number for tech support for Malewarebytes (MBAM).
Since I've known mbam to be an excellent and reputable anti-malware program, I was shocked. I had to investigate. As it turns out, the spam isn't coming from the mbam community. They are the target, or victim, and yes, along with us and our gallery.
Anyway, long story short, there's a rash or outbreak of a type of spam known as "spam flooding" throughout the internet. It's happening in forums, galleries, and email....social media too, I suppose. The spammers typically post several to many identical messages, in one go. And most commonly it gives a toll free phone number, offering software support or customer service. (And lord only knows what's on the other end of that number!) And many, many businesses, corporations, products, whether software or otherwise are being targetted by this.
Well, all we really can do at this point, is be vigilant. Thanks for your help :-)
All best, brynn
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