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Why so much spam?
All of a sudden we are seeing a lot of new posters advertising puppies of all breeds and now drugs by mail, including medical pot. These have showed up in the classifieds as well.
Why is this happening so much and how can you improve your filtering to keep this kind of SPAM out of TOTV? |
I sent multiple notices to admin. Notice you did as well. Guess TOTV has been hacked or invaded.
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Hope this can be fixed.
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Sadly, they're not spam. They're ads. Someone discovered this site and figured it would be a great place to sell dogs from puppy mills and the meds. Both are from the same two individuals, so probably an all in one obscenity. You have option to opt out of seeing the classified ads but that's about the only thing you can do. The so-called people who run these ads change names and IP addresses at the drop of a hat. Next to impossible to monitor unless you have one person doing nothing but checking ads and approving them for posting. Would have to be on almost continuously.
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And thank heavens the forum appears to have just that, because they are now gone. This is a very well maintained forum. Thank you administrators and moderators. |
Is it correct that anyone can join TOTV, but you have to be a Villager to post in the classified forum. These people are smart enough to post on the Pets and Medical forums.
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Regards, TOTV Team |
I have used this web site to help identify spammers.
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Someone right now local is trying to force their puppy mill business on the site. We continue to ban the user accounts and ip addresses and remove the ads.
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Thank you admin for being on top of this!
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