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Keeping Spammers out of ArtFairInsiders.com - An apology

Posted by Connie Mettler on September 23, 2019 at 11:00am

8869192691?profile=originalTry as we might between Larry Berman and myself sometimes spammers sneak in. Our apologies for any nuisance you've experienced in the last couple of days from James Pollard. He has left comments on people's pages and sent emails from the Commercial bank of Dubai(UAE). You know what that means. He is gone.

Please let us know if you ever spot suspicious activity on this site. Considering its scope (over 15,000 members) our controls have worked well. Thank you for understanding. 

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Spammers out to get us!

Posted by Connie Mettler on April 15, 2010 at 9:29pm
Hi Nels and everyone else who has asked:

Here is what was happening. I had the settings on this site so anyone could add a blog post and no one would review it. It would be immediately viewable to everyone. That was just fine, we're all adults here and it was fun to discover what everyone had to say.

However, earlier this week spammers started hitting the site and did blog postings about drugs, aceteminophen, darvocet, etc., every day at least five or six blog postings -- then those blog postings would go out onto the AFI Facebook page, giving them double exposure, and also in the newslettters that were going out every morning with the synopsis of the previous day's activity on AFI -- triple exposure. People were cancelling their memberships, writing me lots of emails asking me to stop it, etc. After three days I put the hold on all the blog posts so I could catch them before they went out over the network and into everyone's email boxes, etc. They come in periodically throughout the day. I was out today and came home to find fifteen waiting in the list of blog postings!! What this means is that blog postings will not be immediately added to the site. Luckily, most of the time I am here. It is the best way I can think of to stop all this infection!

I have been to the site Help desk and basically this is what all the other site organizers on this network are doing.

Here are a few sample blog post - headlines -- the whole message was much more lengthy:
You have a new blog post "Buying Pills Smok-OX. Tablets Purchase Smok-OX" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
You have a new blog post "Generic Buying Acai. Buying Without Prescription Acai" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
You have a new blog post "Buy Floxin Free Delivery. Purchase Floxin Free Delivery" to approve on Art Fair Insider
You have a new blog post "Buying Methotrexate no Prescription. Cheapest Buying Methotrexate" to approve on Art Fair Insiders

You have a new blog post "Tablets Purchase Pravachol. Buy Without a Prescription Pravachol" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
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