Spambot accounts

https://www.memrise.com/user/zza20101
https://www.memrise.com/user/Naustix/
https://www.memrise.com/user/chrissh.han/
https://www.memrise.com/user/leois1080p/

Maybe Memrise should make it more difficult to create and open access (too easy verify / check / confirmation procedures?) to new user accounts?

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“we” used to have spammers in the old fora, every now and then they literally plastered everything… i think in here was also possible

I noticed these ones too
https://www.memrise.com/user/stelio93/
https://www.memrise.com/user/look1011/

@Lien thanks for eradicating

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Even if they are spamming memrise, they are advertising bad websites, that anyone (even children) could open…and to think that I recently sent a link of a multiplication course to my nephews…(sigh):pensive:

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I noticed these four following me as well:

https://www.memrise.com/user/kitnyx/
https://www.memrise.com/user/jfugie82/
https://www.memrise.com/user/bram209/
https://www.memrise.com/user/natasha77728/

@Lien hopefully they can be deleted?

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it turns out i also have some

https://www.memrise.com/user/BlainerTaylor/
https://www.memrise.com/user/fba1368/
https://www.memrise.com/user/oliayee.m/

please, delete them
@Lien

it must be a rather recent phenomenon, because i hadn’t followed back any of them yet, and all the people who i follow back, are genuine

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Thanks for letting us know, it’s much appreciated!
They have all been deleted.

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One of these have made ~2 year old mems apparently.
https://www.memrise.com/user/ucicanuzer/
https://www.memrise.com/user/silvysong/
https://www.memrise.com/user/aznruler1/
https://www.memrise.com/user/HapBaiduaday/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Agieluma/
https://www.memrise.com/user/lilibut_1999/
https://www.memrise.com/user/daneyles/
https://www.memrise.com/user/anuppercasej/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Alesher/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Michaeljikels/
https://www.memrise.com/user/waaaay/
https://www.memrise.com/user/OnyxMephisto/
https://www.memrise.com/user/gromykoanna83/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Reangsei/
https://www.memrise.com/user/hamidrezaei1348/
https://www.memrise.com/user/zehrabetul/
https://www.memrise.com/user/sandaaay/

"Hоt yоung wоmаn’s осеаn оf lоvе sех yоu саtсh hеrе"
Poetry.

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This spambot is following me since yesterday:
https://www.memrise.com/user/Al6bert/

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thank you @Lien, there is also this one:
https://www.memrise.com/user/amonteab/

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@lien apcando is my latest fake follower

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Thanks! They’ve all been deactivated.

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we should find the source of those guys

when i was a forum moderator, i discovered that all porn spammers came from russia,
so i just completely blocked russia !

That’s right. Russia is prevalent in terms of number spam bots. But I doubt your solution will bear fruit… :sweat_smile:

Best solution I can think of is adding a Captcha. While this won’t nullify bots from appearing, it does decrease their numbers by a large margin.

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i used the url or something like that
problem is that russian users can’t log in anymore
that was not a problem for the forum i moderated, because we were local

I agree with you, but I find it too strange that these spams are occuring just now, maybe someone is trying to annoy some users? or maybe someone is trying to get revenge on memrise? maybe we need to call Conan to solve this mystery, or maybe it’s simply my imagination…affaire à suivre :thinking:

i think it’s typical behaviour of somebody who thinks he’s going to make money, maybe by trying to get your creditcard numberor something like that
the porn industry treats everybody as a moron, and if they try long enough, the finally get a victim
one bank account they empty, might be worth it for them
it doesn’t necessarily mean they get a lot of money

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I have picked up some new ones here:

https://www.memrise.com/user/aourdi/
https://www.memrise.com/user/aourdiasoooomi/
https://www.memrise.com/user/aourdiarcanity23/
https://www.memrise.com/user/aourdiaayusha1/

All seem to be from Russia. Can they be removed too please @Lien?

Thank you :slight_smile:

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These also:

https://www.memrise.com/user/3baddogs/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Metin_Akin/
https://www.memrise.com/user/EwAn42o/

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There is also these:
https://www.memrise.com/user/As1256889/
https://www.memrise.com/user/frudech/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Vrq/

Can they be removed too please @Lien

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