SPAM posts in the forum…

[GerdW]

Hi,

I just marked a message as SPAM for the 3rd time today: they always linked to some obscure APP download pages! It was always a different user nickname, always the first post of that user, always in old threads…

Is there something weird going on?

[Ray.R]

For the past 2 - 3 weeks, I noticed that SPAM emails have been on a serious increase.  Not sure what's going on.  Must be a lot of unemployed sw guys out there with nothing better to do.

[altenbach]

Are you talking about private messages or public spam posts?

[altenbach]

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@Ray.R wrote:

For the past 2 - 3 weeks, I noticed that SPAM emails have been on a serious increase.

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I started getting 5x more gmail spam at about the same time, all from the same outfit ("Targeted pages"), mostly for predatory credit cards and psychic readings :D. Gmail files them all in the spam folder, so it is not a big problem.

[Kristi_Martinez]

Hi Gerd,

We have seen an increase in SPAM as well.  We are monitoring forums and appreciate the notifications to help remove the SPAM posts. 

Best Regards,

Kristi Martinez

NI Community Support

[Ray.R]

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@altenbach wrote:

Are you talking about private messages or public spam posts?

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Personal and company emails.  It may have been caused, in part, to a friend whose PC was infected by a trojan or phishing type virus.  I increased the spam blocker by deleting anything from a certain IP address range.  It was the common denominator. 

I was initially getting a spam email at the rate of 1 / hr.  I reduced it to 4 - 5 a day.  We'll see how many with the revisions from this morning. 

It is interesting to read that spam is on the rise elsewhere...