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Watchtower alerts - C C - Jul 16, 2023
Look out for potential spam being posted under old (and new) threads somewhere down the road. Briefly noticed a "new member" with a lot of numbers at the end of the name. And location as Russia.
Might be legit, but doesn't seem likely with that combination. Time will tell.
EDIT: Another one added: "------petrov1435". All but clinches the spambots building up...
(Yeah, I'm just using this as an excuse to start to a thread titled "Watchtower alerts". Might be useful for something in the future.)
RE: Watchtower alerts - stryder - Jul 17, 2023
Thanks for spotting.
I check in now and then to see who runs the gauntlet and manages to get a foot in the door. It's rare for them to get in though, every day there is about number of different attempts to sign up bots with different usernames. Most of the time the custom question foxes them (and probably would be members)