Porn spammer? Update.

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Six Apart (Laura) said:12/09/2008 05:28 PM
Hi there,

Thanks for the report. This account has been shut down. Please let us know if you come across any other spammers like this.

Thanks,
Laura
Six Apart Ltd.

Recipient said:12/06/2008 10:35 PM
I've been going through the groups that I moderate, and this one joined them all on Nov 30th. http://vcheslav.vox.com/ It looks as though he's Russian, and I would think there is a good chance that he is the source of the porn spam that has been annoying Voxers. I've removed and blocked him from all my Groups, and suggest that he be booted off Vox.

Thanks.

On 30th November this guy  became a member  of every group I moderate on Vox. His posts are in Russian. Now, the porn spam I've received is also in Russian, which makes me very suspicious indeed. So, he has been deleted and blocked from all my groups, and I have notified Vox of my suspicions. I don't think I'm being unduly paranoid. If you agree, I'd suggest you block him too.

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John
He's a pornbot and keeps popping up. Just report him to the Vox Team and they'll toss him out the window (figuratively speaking).

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Vicola
Some twat left me a comment on one of my posts in Russian. It looked like it linked to something so I clicked on it and ended up on a Russian porn site. Why do they do that? It's most annoying.
paikea
this guy spammed me also - luckily, i can read Russian, so i didn't click on the porn site - but, thanks for the link - i've had no repeats, but i'm going right over to block him just in case
Snowy
You might block him from the groups you host too.
paikea
yeah - i checked through the groups he'd joined and both of the groups i hosted were among them - i threw him out and blocked him right away!
Empress Nasi Goreng
Thanks. I'll check he hasn't joined any of my groups. Vox have deleted the accounts of quite a few people sending that Russian porn SPAM after it is reported to them. More just seem to keep popping up again though.
Empress Nasi Goreng
Yes, he was in both the groups I moderate as well.
Jack Yan
He’s joined two of my groups, too, but no posts yet. Vox has been really good lately at deleting spambot comments and sploggers, so you did the right thing by reporting him.
Charmagne Coe
I had spam from him and another gent four times last week. Gent? I mean cad! I reported both to VOX and received a personal letter from the VOX's staff letting me know they had deleted the account. Yet another reason I like VOX, even if spammers try to weasel their way in.
Snowy
I haven't heard anything back from Vox yet. His account was still there when I checked.
dox^2
Looks like he is gone now...
Jack Yan
Like you, C., I have had good responses of late from Vox—including about this spammer. I don’t know if anyone noticed, but spambots had been adding posts to Vox like crazy over the last four weeks or so—dozens each minute in some cases. They’d kill some off, only for them to return via another IP. I can only imagine they took longer to act on vcheslav because of all the IP-blocking they had to do on those splogs.

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