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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 !

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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

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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:

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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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https://www.memrise.com/user/Kusaion/

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A report button might be useful.

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mention @Lien in your message, and she knows

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I mean in the webapp. That way it could be automated.
Most users don’t know about the forum anyway.

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https://www.memrise.com/user/Asceta/
https://www.memrise.com/user/alin23/
https://www.memrise.com/user/anderonia/mempals/followers/

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I have one following me that needs removing-

https://www.memrise.com/user/Sorzan/

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Me too

https://www.memrise.com/user/adamasama/

@Lien

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39

is it causing that much of a problem? There are so so so so so many bugs they need to fix.

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as @mila83 wrote

BlockquoteEven 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…

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Also https://www.memrise.com/user/babettevg/

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