Spambot accounts

@Lien
https://www.memrise.com/user/sh.mark

@MemriseMatty @Lien
Here are some more - I’m finding it hard to spot which of these have been flagged up already!

https://www.memrise.com/user/asdf1234
https://www.memrise.com/user/alyciaricochet
https://www.memrise.com/user/iloveGinger
https://www.memrise.com/user/Asafbuch
https://www.memrise.com/user/574193195
https://www.memrise.com/user/AndreyKlipikov
https://www.memrise.com/user/anonimus27
https://www.memrise.com/user/archieness
https://www.memrise.com/user/micionkas
https://www.memrise.com/user/anand9027
https://www.memrise.com/user/mmuthumeena
https://www.memrise.com/user/anagai
https://www.memrise.com/user/100tacks/
https://www.memrise.com/user/chknpants/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Lykren/
https://www.memrise.com/user/andedik/
https://www.memrise.com/user/chasky11/
https://www.memrise.com/user/embidem/

Spam accounts:
https://www.memrise.com/user/annabolk2013/
https://www.memrise.com/user/00everfree/
https://www.memrise.com/user/Andrea_ef/
https://www.memrise.com/user/apgavin/

if they’re still there, they probably haven’t been flagged yet

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Hi @Mr_Marshall @Thomas.Heiss @IchigoSmof @StowawayMike @mark.mcewen.3981

Thank you all very much for your help with this ordeal.

My colleagues have traced all the profiles with inappropriate bio’s and cleared them accordingly.

In the unlikely event you still come across obscene links and/or language, please let me know.

Best wishes,

Lien

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Update: Please see - Bio field will be suspended starting today

Best,

Matt.

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I hope all the complainers are now fully satisfied for controbuting in impoverishing memrise (again)

it’s temporary
moreover, some of the bio’s were actually hacked

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aha. If a drunk biker causes an accident, let’s forbid all the motorbikes

because internet sites can be hacked, let’s shut down all the sites

and so on and so forth

If a plane flies into a building because of terrorists, alle planes are grounded.

really? “all” planes where? are you having a certain number of 
 fix ideas, and take them mistakenly for “arguments”? btw, this is memrise, supposedly a learning site and not one for spurting MoralinsĂ€uere

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I see quite a few followers that have little content, sometimes no courses, but follow exactly 500 people. Is that a pretty good indicator that something is wrong? I don’t see anything advertised at the moment, but it does seem strange.

EDIT: I see now that it seems to be the case for most if not all the accounts that people have complained about. Is this just an arbitrary number the spammer decided on or is there significance to that number?

Here are the accounts I have found suspicious:

https://www.memrise.com/user/Luckyclover520/
https://www.memrise.com/user/menegattigio/
https://www.memrise.com/user/sheapm/
https://www.memrise.com/user/anzrno/
https://www.memrise.com/user/itskorrine/

All these are fairly recent. Is 500 the max for how many you can follow or something?

they never had as much sunshine in the USA as the days after 9/11
because of no plane exhaust trails

you have to check your history, mate

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you’re fabulating the USA is the not whole world, where I was living at the time the airplanes were circulating ok. Besides, I am not your mate. The suspesion of the bios seems an irreversible measure. Good luck with choping memrise till it becomes the most boring site, in accordace with the ideas of moral fundamentalists of all colours

9/11 was in the usa, wasn’t it?
anyway, your arguments just don’t hold up

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@Lien Now they’re using usernames that are URLs. Here’s the links to their account pages:

https://www.memrise.com/user/sДх.kdwlg.ru/
https://www.memrise.com/user/sДxx.dvqp.ru

Thanks!

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@Lien

disabling the profile bio field clearly did not do something against new fake user accounts: https://www.memrise.com/user/sДх.ceorgh.ru/

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i have a few like that too
i say they have to block russia

i say they have to block russia

And how would that be fair for all of the learners who live in Russia? I’m one of them. My husband is also one of them.

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