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A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites

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You may want to check if you have a registered user on your site who's email address is new@sys54.3fn.net or new1@sys54.3fn.net (or a variation thereof). On at least two Geeklog sites (including geeklog.net) that user has suddenly started posting comment spam (for drugs and pills) after the account lay dormant for a year or longer. The oldest accounts found so far date back to August 2004.

Account names differ but follow a pattern: 9NoraRebecca, 3BillAlika, 7FlossieOma, 9AlmaNoguri

We suggest that you delete or at least ban that user (banning a user is only supported as of Geeklog 1.4.0). If you find any interesting variation of the above patterns and suspect it's the same user, feel free to email us and send us the details.

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Damn Spam! - A spammer using a "sleeper" account
Tracked on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 07:18 AM EST

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A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: vbgunz on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 12:08 AM EST

username: 0PattyReuben
email address: new@sys54.3fn.net
reg date: August, 20, 2004
last login: January, 10, 2006
IP address: 216*
spamments: 52
impact: pathetic...

So sad people do things like this... No life what so ever :(

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A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: samstone on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 02:40 AM EST
I think what's even more shocking is seeing Victor B. Gonzalez online. I had the check several time to make sure I was not reading an old thread.

Welcome back Mr. Professional Theme maker!

Sam
A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: vbgunz on Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 05:04 PM EST
Thanks Sam :)

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Victor B. Gonzalez -
http://aeonserv.com
A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: Blaine on Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 09:53 AM EST
I found two such accounts on my site

- 1NametheunKodo, new@sys54.3fn.net, 2004-08-11
- 2GregNepartak,new1@sys54.3fn.net,2005-03-17

Thanks for the tip.

If you have phpMyAdmin access, the quickest way to find these users is to run this query:
SELECT * FROM gl_users WHERE email LIKE '%sys54%'

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A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: bjudson on Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 02:59 AM EST
As a potential fix; why don't you edit all links including trackback, and anonymous comments to add <a rel="nofollow" href="blahblahblah">blahblah</a> ???

Infact make all links nofollow unless the user has a follow permission set!
A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: eyecravedvd on Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 08:06 AM EST
I'm glad this person has been caught. Even though some of us go hammered by them ([link:http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=3&showtopic=62602])

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A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: drkrum on Monday, January 16 2006 @ 05:32 PM EST
yup, I had one of those as well. found it by running: select * from gl_users where email like '%3fn%';
A spammer's "sleeper" account on Geeklog sites
Authored by: vbgunz on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 10:16 PM EST
A new user with the handle FannyGabby at IP 205.178.145.65, just spammed my site again... Just letting everyone know...

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http://aeonserv.com