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A Big Thank You ...

04/23/2014 12:50 AM

... to those unsung CR4 heroes who daily purge this forum of that accursed astrologer's spam.

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Re: A Big Thank You ...

04/23/2014 1:07 AM

And for all the other things they do, that allows us to play.

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04/23/2014 1:15 AM

Indeed.

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04/23/2014 1:16 AM

What is interesting is that this spam is all over the net.

I looked up the telephone number in the header and found plenty of forums being spammed the same way.

It seems that the lunatic behind it has nothing else to do than creating user accounts to spam forums with the same BS all over again.

I also noticed that the user accounts are not deleted. The spam comes from one or more accounts every day.

Anybody ever thought of calling this number to tell him that he has done a good job, but can stop now?

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04/23/2014 1:34 AM

Send 'em a copy of HeartBleed.

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04/23/2014 3:36 PM

I actually considered last night spamming him with countless scientific magazine and website subscriptions and ads, New Scientist, Nature, National Geographic, NASA, etc.

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04/23/2014 4:10 PM

MAke suRe that WHEN yoU COMMuNICAte with Them, your capslock kEY is LOOSE.

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05/15/2014 3:26 AM

How did go?

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05/15/2014 3:17 PM

He wasn't worth it so I did something more constructive with my time.

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04/23/2014 1:30 AM

Hear! Hear!

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04/23/2014 1:36 AM

I hope it's stopped, I'm running out of pins....

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04/23/2014 4:16 PM

I think you're going to need a bigger pin.

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04/23/2014 7:29 AM
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04/23/2014 7:31 AM

Yeah, my love problems are all sorted...
Well, in so far as they are ever going to be.

Dunno if I should have passed the number onto mrs Cat tho'

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04/23/2014 8:03 AM

seems the astrologers bringing in another wave.

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04/24/2014 6:52 AM

Obviously that come in from the CR4 Crystal Ball department.

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04/25/2014 3:06 AM

I've noticed an 'unregistered user' looking at CR4's New Members page about an hour before the day's wave hits. May be pure coincidence or not but, if not, I reckon it's the spammer looking to see if their accounts have been removed.

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Virus E-mail Warning!

04/24/2014 7:05 AM

talking of spam etc.
Watch out for a virus coming as an attachment with an E-mail purporting to be from DHL (couriers) saying they have a parcel which they can't deliver. It asks you to open the ziped file attachment to get a document authorising collection.
DON'T!

Mrs Cat got it as and was suspicious as we had nothing on order. There was no reference number or details of sender. We checked on DHLs website and they had a warning about it.
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04/25/2014 2:58 AM

How do we get Global to stop him ?

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04/25/2014 3:12 PM

By launching a DDOS attack on them under the guise of an Anonymous Poster?

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04/25/2014 1:52 PM

Your friends are back............. and by friends, I mean pests.

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04/25/2014 3:20 PM

You're very welcome, and thanks for the thank-you .

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05/16/2014 7:10 PM

how about a variation on that Youtube colour red-blue sound thing can we send him that ?

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