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Spammers Nads Hacked Off
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Spammers Nads Hacked Off  Now for some good news concerning the recent spike of spammers on our site. We identified the source of the is and just now eliminated 100,000+ spammer accounts associated with this source. Our issues started in late December and over the last few weeks have gotten really bad. They were using pre-recorded broadcasts, flooding chat room like the lobby, sending flirts and behaving badly. You can thank Mr. K and our Risk Management team for keeping on the issue. He'll be live in our chat next Wednesday at 2:30 PM Pacific. Hit up Live From AFF and join the conversation. You should see a dramatic difference in spam and fakes today. |
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I would like to suggest that you broadcast this type of info out to the community as everyone is complaining about this issue.
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 Thanks Ryan and Mr K Senior Sizzle Parody Of a Real Sex Site 
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I'm picturing Mr. K doing a snoopy dance in his chair.  
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Hey, that's great news and we appreciate the effort, but you still have a long way to go. I just clicked on my "Photos of Recent New Members" page and by my guess all but TWO were phony profiles. They were all similar pics of young nude women with the multiple digits on the ends of their screen names. You would probably be safe deleting the whole page. Keep working!!
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Is there any plan to use CAPTCHA when creating an account and/or require profiles to be more completely filled out? This might help...
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Yeah, we are never going to get rid of the. Just a part of being the largest adult site on the web. This particular group really hit us hard though, and we've closed down all the channels that made it possible. I'm sure they just flipped over the chalk board and started writing something new. The only thing I HAVE to do is eat, shit, and die. Everything else is a choice.
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You're probably right. After I wrote my post, I realized that whoever's doing this probably isn't using the normal route of creating profiles that real people do. Otherwise, that person would have to come up with 100,000 legitimate email addresses, and all the free email providers use something like CAPTCHA anyway, which obviously isn't slowing anyone down. Maybe if they keep getting their nads chopped off, they won't be able to reproduce. 
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Dang! I liked the other pic you had up.
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Congrats on kicking ONE of them, anyway, but I have to say that I haven't seen a dramatic drop...at least not in the "New Member Photos" section of my home page. I've reported bunches of them lately...just about every time I sign on, I go through the five profiles listed as "New" and report at least four of the five to the abuse team. My favorite is the "snoogiewoogie" scammer...the handle is a cutesy word with at least one instance of "oo" in it and ending with a three-digit number. ("kissiepookie423" was one of them). The handles are so predictable, you could probably design a filter for them.
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Dang! I liked the other pic you had up.
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Excellent news folks.. Well done!!! So thank you Mr K. Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Hope you can get the rest of them going. They are still here. Just look at my account.
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2/16/2010 11:18 pm |
Well,one less thing is better,I guess but before you celebrate too much let me remind you that there are still lots of spammers here...
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I laughed my ass off when I saw the date of your post. Its a week later and there is absolutely no difference in the number of spammers here. From my perspective, its getting tiresome and to the point where I'm ready to leave. But from your perspective its no big deal and its just job security.
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As many commenters here have noted, there has been no reduction in the rate of newly added phony profiles despite the Senior Sizzle rep's claims to the contrary. This may be why: FriendFinder Networks (Senior Sizzle's parent company owned by Various, Inc.) sent out an email on January 12 announcing that it would be issuing an IPO (initial public offering) of FFN stock in the near future. It seems like quite a fortuitous coincidence that Senior Sizzle's membership began to skyrocket shortly thereafter. In just the last week, for example, Senior Sizzle has added (by its own count) more than a half million members. It beggars belief to claim that these massive numbers of fakes are being generated by some outside "spammer"; it seems just as likely that Senior Sizzle itself is artificially inflating its own member rolls in advance of the IPO in order to make it appear to prospective investors that its "assets," i.e., the number of active members, are far greater than they actually are. The more Senior Sizzle members there are when the stock is issued, the higher the price the new stock will sell for--and the more money the current owners of Senior Sizzle will pocket. Neat, huh? Since I know someone who works for the SEC, I called her up earlier this week and asked her if such activity would constitute investor fraud on the part of FFN, and she said in no uncertain terms that such a scheme would indeed be classified as criminally fraudulent. Investors who bought IPO shares under such misrepresentation would also be able to seek civil remedy (in other words, sue the pants off FFN). My acquaintance also said that she'd send my inquiry on to another division to determine whether it's suspicious enough to merit investigation. While I certainly hope that Senior Sizzle is in no way involved in this sudden flurry of new fakes, I also hope that anyone at Senior Sizzle who might be involved in such activity is aware that he or she would share legal culpability should such fraud be discovered. Just sayin'.
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Well, I guess it's good the spam department got off their can and closed ONE loophole. Nevertheless & despite their supposed "best efforts," (there have always been a large number of fake profiles on here,) the sheer volume of blatantly fake profiles over the last several months have been astronomical. For the sanity of the members and to salvage what credibility the site has left, get aggressive with these fakes. Finally Ryan, I think near the interact portion of each profile, y'all should add "report profile for abuse' in easily identifiable font, size, color, whatever... with an option on the next page to report things like; *photo doesn't match description or description doesn't match photos *text doesn't match descriptive information entered (or vice versa) *obvious spammer, please delete *suspect spammer, please review Thanks.
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Senior Sizzle is most certainly NOT listening!!! I've complained with specific questions to the Senior Sizzle "team" without response. There are simple steps that could be taken to eliminate the spammers tomorrow!! This site like others follow the model of bigger is better and will continue to allow fraudulent users so as to bolster their "membership" claims. As long as there are idiots who follow the links the spammers suggest they will continue to place ads and Senior Sizzle will have no motivation to filter them. There are some new websites (mostly local) who have responded to consumer demand and operate under a different business model popping up out there and only when the marketing wizards here see the shrinkage in the bottom line and do some research will there be any change. Even Craigslist allows users to flag profiles!!!
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I just did a little "survey" and just like Lookin said, it is astonishing... There is a small town close to where I live Population 87. I just counted 62 ads all claiming it as their location!!! If this were true you couldn't drive thru there without running over hot chicks...LOL
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Many I see are re-using photos from members that have not been here in months! The fakes/spammers are getting WORSE ~NOT better!!! Senior Sizzle Parody Of a Real Sex Site
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Ryan~ In your group post You AND MrK.who is from the abuse team stated ''they'' would be left alone so ''they'' could be watched,,, EVERYDAY ''they'' are getting worse. Hey,Stop watching and Start DOING! Senior Sizzle Parody Of a Real Sex Site
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3/1/2010 7:21 pm |
and here i was thinking i was the only one noticing all the new fake profiles,,,,, where's the ''report a profile'' link? why is there not a way to say ''hey this profile is a spammer/scammer'' button? i can say for me,,,when this membership expires, i won't be a paying member here again, i will use the sight for free or i will not use it at all.
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3/4/2010 11:51 am |
I do agree that this site seems to not take much of what the members say seriously,and often they can't be bothered to even reply,and this was the case when I was a gold and silver member( at the moment I am a standard member).
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Its the first of the month, that means a whole new crop of spam bots. You have to get this problem under control. I realize the padded stats from having all the fakes and spammers enrolled make your company look solvent, but this is ridiculous. Moniker is right when he says "Today I'm still seeing a fair number of "new members" with gibberish random names, so I wonder of they changed their tactics." What are you going to do to solve the problem. And please dont tell me, once again, to report the abuse, I have, others do, and its not working. You have to do something else to stop the spam bots.
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As many commenters here have noted, there has been no reduction in the rate of newly added phony profiles despite the Senior Sizzle rep's claims to the contrary. This may be why: FriendFinder Networks (Senior Sizzle's parent company owned by Various, Inc.) sent out an email on January 12 announcing that it would be issuing an IPO (initial public offering) of FFN stock in the near future. It seems like quite a fortuitous coincidence that Senior Sizzle's membership began to skyrocket shortly thereafter. In just the last week, for example, Senior Sizzle has added (by its own count) more than a half million members. It beggars belief to claim that these massive numbers of fakes are being generated by some outside "spammer"; it seems just as likely that Senior Sizzle itself is artificially inflating its own member rolls in advance of the IPO in order to make it appear to prospective investors that its "assets," i.e., the number of active members, are far greater than they actually are. The more Senior Sizzle members there are when the stock is issued, the higher the price the new stock will sell for--and the more money the current owners of Senior Sizzle will pocket. Neat, huh? Since I know someone who works for the SEC, I called her up earlier this week and asked her if such activity would constitute investor fraud on the part of FFN, and she said in no uncertain terms that such a scheme would indeed be classified as criminally fraudulent. Investors who bought IPO shares under such misrepresentation would also be able to seek civil remedy (in other words, sue the pants off FFN). My acquaintance also said that she'd send my inquiry on to another division to determine whether it's suspicious enough to merit investigation. While I certainly hope that Senior Sizzle is in no way involved in this sudden flurry of new fakes, I also hope that anyone at Senior Sizzle who might be involved in such activity is aware that he or she would share legal culpability should such fraud be discovered. Just sayin'.
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