[SAC] Doing spamming in your website

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Hi SACers,

I’m getting some of those mails lately, via info@osgeo org , can be do something about that?

Thanks

J

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From: Ajay Rohilla <mr.ajayrohilla@gmail.com>
Date: čt 7. 7. 2016 v 20:53
Subject: Doing spamming in your website
To: <info@osgeo.org>

Hi,

Admin, Hope you are doing well, some user are doing spamming posting in your website please have look on that users.

I have prepared a small list for spammer users…

Millerjuliabel

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Regards
Ajay Rohilla
Cell No 91+ 9034716146

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Hi,

I have taken care of this, it was a wiki spammer.

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete

Sadly its quite common recently.
We get on average about 15 account requests a day, of which are >90% fake/spam requests.
Though, I am sure these requests come to a large proportion from real humans, and its often not easy to decide if it an actual person interested in OSGeo or a spammer. Because of this, we have about one spammer a week that gets through.

I can then easily ban the user from the wike, and delete or revert all his/her edits...

Christian

Am 08.07.2016 um 09:59 schrieb Jachym Cepicky:

Hi SACers,

I'm getting some of those mails lately, via info@osgeo org , can be do something about that?

Thanks

J

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Ajay Rohilla <mr.ajayrohilla@gmail.com <mailto:mr.ajayrohilla@gmail.com>>
Date: čt 7. 7. 2016 v 20:53
Subject: Doing spamming in your website
To: <info@osgeo.org <mailto:info@osgeo.org>>

Hi,

Admin, Hope you are doing well, some user are doing spamming posting in your website please have look on that users.

I have prepared a small list for spammer users..

Millerjuliabel <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Millerjuliabel&gt;

--
Regards
Ajay Rohilla
Cell No 91+ 9034716146

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 07:59:54AM +0000, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

Hi SACers,

I'm getting some of those mails lately, via info@osgeo org , can be do
something about that?

Changing the contact info on http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid ?

I filed a ticket about this 2 weeks ago:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1732

The ticket was put in the "WebSite" component and thus automatically
notified to the "webcom" mailing lits:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/webcom/2016-June/thread.html

Nobody followed up yet. Are you in a position to tackle that ticket ?

--strk;

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Christian Willmes wrote:

We get on average about 15 account requests a day, of which are
>90% fake/spam requests.

Are you takling about LDAP account or Wiki account requests ?

The sysadmin@osgeo.org address gets ~2 LDAP account requests a day.

--strk;

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wiki account requests.

Like these here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:ConfirmAccounts/authors

Am 08.07.2016 um 10:47 schrieb Sandro Santilli:

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Christian Willmes wrote:

We get on average about 15 account requests a day, of which are

90% fake/spam requests.

Are you takling about LDAP account or Wiki account requests ?

The sysadmin@osgeo.org address gets ~2 LDAP account requests a day.

--strk;