It appears to have gotten a whole lot more prolific in the last month or so. Reporting works but it would be nice if they would cut it out!

bit of spam always shuffling through.... gets shuffled off pretty fast....

Not to change the topic, but I demand to know one thing: How the hell does Sydneysiders come up with those amazing gifs?

Not only that but earth's rotation considered, her timing is truly impeccable. That means she's got a veritable "Library of Alexandria" of them on hand, duly stored, indexed and backed up (probably dusted, waxed and buffed to a pristine sheen as well).

So, "I have an inquiring mind and I want to know": How many of those little boogers do you have and what are your principal sources?

Worst in recent times was 28 out of 50 of the 'recent posts' being spam.

We handle them so [mostly] you don't even notice.

One day I expect it will be an Olympic sport..... hopefully with as much blood-letting as Gladiatorial 'sport' was.....

The spammers have recently noticed the forums again which is why we have had some spam attacks recently.

When they show up we deal with them as quickly as possible, sometimes within seconds of the posts being made.  I just took out an account that I think was due to be used for spamming.

Hopefully the spammers will get the message soon that their rubbish stays on the site for so little time that its not worth the effort, and going forward we plan to enhance our anti spam systems to make it quicker for us to delete the spam on mass when it arrives and also to prevent it ever showing up in the first place.

The problem is apparently some of these adverts work on some people.  If nobody purchased anything after seeing the ads then the spammers would not waste their time on it.  People need to know that a single mum in your area did not invent some teeth whitening trick, there isn't a weird old trick to lose weight fast, and you are not the 100000th visitor and have not won an ipad!

Now I am off to transfer money to claim my share of the assets of a now dead long lost distant relative from Nigeria who apparently had millions and didn't leave a will....

no particular source doc.... just been collecting odds and ends since 2004 for a rainy day from all over the place..... sometimes even the strangest have come into play at some time.... just a bit of silliness in a too serious world.... 

LOL! Some people have all the luck!

Hmm... I don't really notice spam here on these forums.  Attests to the alertness of the people at Stardock.

Yoy, cell phones... Hubby and I have pay-as-you-go type cell phones. This means that every spam that come through costs us - it adds up. Since there is no phone number, there is no way to block them. The number disappears after they call - how do they do that? The reason we have pay-as-you-go cell phones is because we can't afford fancy ones. (that is the main type in the middle east, opened up phones and choose your card vendor) If you don't use the fancy stuff, the pay-as-you-go phones can be really cost efficient.

@ Jafo - Blood? Hubby is paramedic and I was a firefighter. Blood is fun.

@ Sydneysiders - I understand that fried spam is good. Wanna try it? You go first. I think it was the Philippine folks that love the stuff.

Yes, blood.

Currently 'recent' has 18.