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Moderators please stop "wegwedgewkj " blogging

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Dear Moderators please block this annoyingly disruptive team of people trying to sell the community sports bras and goodness knows what else. Thank you.

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I've just seen some of the posts you are referring to! Those posts drive me mad - it's bad enough on Twitter! :/

Where I saw the posts, I clicked on the 'Report' button to the right of the post and wrote 'SPAM' in the reason. If we all do that, they should do something about it hopefully?

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back_to_18Graduate

The domains listed in these spam messages are all registered to the XIN Net Technology Corporation. They have been sending out spam emails, making posts like this on forum sites and attempting to steal passwords by sending out "closing account" emails for over 7 years.

Back in 2008 they were reported to the The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an attempt to stop them registering new domains. However, they are still at it today!

I would advise everyone to ensure that they do not click on any of their links.

I'm sure that the site administrators are removing these spam posts as soon as they can but it now seems the majority of posts are being spammed.

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back_to_18Graduate

p.s. I've just noticed that ICANN have issued a breach notice to John He (the owner of XIN Net Technology Corporation) on the 31st July 2012. This is only for three of Mr He's domains but hopefully may indicate the start of ICANN cracking down on this person and his many scam sites.

I report it as spam by clicking the report button and I've noticed that the messages are then removed, I wouldn't be surprised if all message are then removed for that user as the admin will be able to see what they have posted.

You will notice that each new day brings with it a new user posting the same adverts!

Don't let it spoil all the valuable messages, just ignore, report and then move on.

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Yes, I did the same several times leading to removal of all messages!

Sure, will ignore, more importantly people should know they are not to follow the link as it is clearly phishing.

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beatasthma

Aargh...they even got in on this post. I've done the 'SPAM' email to the moderators a few times as it drives me mad when you click in and see this. Please block them C25K!

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