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Title: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: JasonM on May 23, 2018, 05:27:02 PM
I was presented with a notice today that I was a robot trying to send spam through the forum. Umm... ok. I haven't even posted on here in five days until this thread. It was amusing and not that much of an inconvenience to have to answer a couple simple math questions. What's the detection method that somehow detected that I'm a robot? :)
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: Pinstriper on May 23, 2018, 06:12:20 PM
I was presented with a notice today that I was a robot trying to send spam through the forum. Umm... ok. I haven't even posted on here in five days until this thread. It was amusing and not that much of an inconvenience to have to answer a couple simple math questions. What's the detection method that somehow detected that I'm a robot? :)

What do you mean "presented with a notice" ? Did you get an email claiming you had done this, and to click this here link to prove you didn't do it and restore your account ? If so, that was just a phishing email.
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: Lutefisk on May 23, 2018, 06:48:57 PM
I was presented with a notice today that I was a robot trying to send spam through the forum. Umm... ok. I haven't even posted on here in five days until this thread. It was amusing and not that much of an inconvenience to have to answer a couple simple math questions. What's the detection method that somehow detected that I'm a robot? :)

What do you mean "presented with a notice" ? Did you get an email claiming you had done this, and to click this here link to prove you didn't do it and restore your account ? If so, that was just a phishing email.

Haha, get it? "phishing email"
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: craig on May 23, 2018, 08:02:04 PM

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Haha, get it? "phishing email"

I like this guy  :laughing4:
If this were the Spearboard.com forum it would be spear phishing.
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: JasonM on May 23, 2018, 09:30:45 PM
I was presented with a notice today that I was a robot trying to send spam through the forum. Umm... ok. I haven't even posted on here in five days until this thread. It was amusing and not that much of an inconvenience to have to answer a couple simple math questions. What's the detection method that somehow detected that I'm a robot? :)

What do you mean "presented with a notice" ? Did you get an email claiming you had done this, and to click this here link to prove you didn't do it and restore your account ? If so, that was just a phishing email.

No. It was this forum software that made me enter the answer to two addition questions on subsequent pages before it allowed access to the forum. It had nothing to do with email.
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: Captain Redbeard on May 24, 2018, 09:20:02 AM
I get this all the time if I am on via VPN and occasionally when on public wifi. shrug.gif
Title: Re: Detected as a robot trying to send spam through the forum?
Post by: polepole on May 30, 2018, 09:04:18 PM
I think it is the forum software anti-spam stuff kicking in, likely on IP address.

-Allen