Accrington Web
   

Home Gallery Arcade Blogs Members List Today's Posts
Go Back   Accrington Web > AccyWeb > General Chat
Donate! Join Today

General Chat General chat - common sense in here please. Decent serious discussions to be enjoyed by everyone!


Welcome to Accrington Web!

We are a discussion forum dedicated to the towns of Accrington, Oswaldtwistle and the surrounding areas, sometimes referred to as Hyndburn! We are a friendly bunch please feel free to browse or read on for more info.
You are currently viewing our site as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, photos, play in the community arcade and use our blog section. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so please, join our community today!



Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 18-06-2019, 21:37   #1
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
What is it with all the watchers tonight?

What is it with all the watchers with strange names....ghosting us tonight.
None of them seem to have posted anything.....might they be potential spammers?
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Accrington Web
Old 19-06-2019, 07:46   #2
Coffin Dodger.

 
cashman's Avatar
 
Jewel Quest Champion!
Cribbage Master Champion!

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

They have been on a couple of days now i think they may even be hackers? but what do i know!
__________________
N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
cashman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 13:43   #3
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

They were on like this in the early part of the year...just watching.
I think that Neil instituted some kind of verification process before new members can post...so maybe they have not been verified.
They all appear to have strange names and none has posted anything.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 13:45   #4
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

All, but one, have gone home to bed now.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 14:02   #5
Coffin Dodger.

 
cashman's Avatar
 
Jewel Quest Champion!
Cribbage Master Champion!

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

whatever they are none live in the uk they are scattered all oer the world.
__________________
N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
cashman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 20:00   #6
Coffin Dodger.

 
cashman's Avatar
 
Jewel Quest Champion!
Cribbage Master Champion!

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

yon lots out again. lol
__________________
N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
cashman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 20:36   #7
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Yes...I wonder what they find so interesting.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-06-2019, 21:33   #8
Full Member+
 
Ryewolf90's Avatar
 

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

I think they are all spambots/forum spammers

If you look at their details, almost all have Biography as Man and Interests seems to be a variant of their username... and occupation seems to be a country...

EG LucasSnorm

Biography
Man
Location Now
France
Interests
LucasSnormBM
Occupation
France
How did you find out about us?
Relations
Gender
Male
__________________
An Oxymoron is but an Onomatopoeia isn’t. I shall leave you to ponder that one.
Ryewolf90 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-06-2019, 06:51   #9
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Yes.....that would be a likely answer.
At one time....Cashy will verify this, we were inundated with spammers.....and the site was hacked a couple of times.
I know that Neil put processes in place to try to nip this in the bud....and so far it seems to have been very effective.
We are not getting posters with strange names showing pornographic images....or exotic resorts in Vietnam.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-06-2019, 08:58   #10
Coffin Dodger.

 
cashman's Avatar
 
Jewel Quest Champion!
Cribbage Master Champion!

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
Yes.....that would be a likely answer.
At one time....Cashy will verify this, we were inundated with spammers.....and the site was hacked a couple of times.
I know that Neil put processes in place to try to nip this in the bud....and so far it seems to have been very effective.
We are not getting posters with strange names showing pornographic images....or exotic resorts in Vietnam.
Defo seems to have helped big time imho, load still on now but nowt vile has appeared. noticed that yeh can still send message to em via skype, hope no-ones daft enough.!
__________________
N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
cashman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 25-06-2019, 15:34   #11
Full Member
 

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Six of the people currently online are in US and joined between 5-7 Jan this year. They probably know each other due to the interests being written in the same way, ie their username with 2 capital letters after it. I wonder if they are the same person?
Mark
Mark2009 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 25-06-2019, 17:57   #12
Coffin Dodger.

 
cashman's Avatar
 
Jewel Quest Champion!
Cribbage Master Champion!

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark2009 View Post
Six of the people currently online are in US and joined between 5-7 Jan this year. They probably know each other due to the interests being written in the same way, ie their username with 2 capital letters after it. I wonder if they are the same person?
Mark
Dont know for sure, but very much doubt it, unless the same person has loads and loads of different computers? cos if the same person uses the same computer with different usernames the mods ban em normally. imho.
__________________
N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
cashman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 25-06-2019, 20:23   #13
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Unless they are using a VPN(virtual private network) as this hides your IP address.
I could be wrong, but I think that however many computers you have at one address, I think they will all use the same IP address.

I am happy to be corrected if I have got this bum uppards.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 26-06-2019, 08:18   #14
Full Member
 

Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Possibly partially solved it. All the US users have essayerudite.com as their website which is an essay writing service. The attached link is to a review website where a number of users report them as being scammers. If this is so they perhaps need removing if this is possible.
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/essayerudite.com
Mark
Mark2009 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 26-06-2019, 11:20   #15
Beacon of light

 
Margaret Pilkington's Avatar
Re: What is it with all the watchers tonight?

Neil has set up a verification process of some kind...so these members will not get on to scam as they will not be permitted to post.
Anyone sensible will not use their Skype to contact them as they are an nknown quantity.
All they can really do is 'ghost'
I think they are 'spammers' rather than scammers.

We did have a problem in the past with spammers, but Neil seems to have cracked it.
__________________
The world will not be destroyed by evil people...
It will be destroyed by those who stand by and do Nothing.
(a paraphrase on a quote by Albert Einstein)
Margaret Pilkington is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools



Other sites of interest.. More town sites..




All times are GMT. The time now is 14:42.


© 2003-2013 AccringtonWeb.com



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.6.1