Japanese Spam

[Neo]

I volunteer next time sucky racist spammer come 'round that it's AWESOME! but it's not awesome because I'm not stupid. But yeah end of the world stupid. But serious no body gets the references. That girl is really stupid.

[Chief Blur Buster]

[Your post is in reference to the spam messages that appeared recently in various asian languages -- all of them since removed]

It's hopefully reduced/mostly solved now.

We try to remove these [asian spam, nigerian spam, etc] messages quickly. I've found sometimes they register, wait two weeks, and then they spam. These use an automated means of forum registration, which try to create a mass of new accounts, and let them sit around, then they begin spamming eventually. That kind of forum spam is automated these days.

Fortunately, I've strengthened up the registration system with two different challenge questions, so future spammers will have a bit of a tougher time making it through. We'll likely be adding more moderators in the next few weeks, as well.

[Neo]

My engrish wasn't too racist was it? :p

[Chief Blur Buster]

Our forum is all-inclusive.

Of course, except for the spammers that posted hundreds of automated foreign-language messages about things like herbals, viagara, and other stuff, that we had to delete...

[RealNC]

Most of the IPs used by spammers are already blacklisted by stopforumspam (http://www.stopforumspam.com). There should be a phpbb mod to prevent them from even entering the site.

[Chief Blur Buster]

Fortunately, we have exercised a number of security measures to prevent these... I missed one remaining spammer -- left their account idle for more than a week (one registered before security measures were implemented, but left account to idle at first), and then suddenly started spamming.