Millions of spam threads in non-English characters

[StopProcrastinatingGerald]

Tonight it’s on AMA. Yesterday on Alcohol support. Can’t report them all as so many

AMA and Investments tonight
Have been reporting them but they appear too quickly!

I searched online for opss07 (but deliberately didn’t put in URL) and saw that the same spam has been posted on a whole range of forums

Think I've got them all - for now 🙄

In Investments as well.

The investment ones were deleted too

@ANightwatcher spoke too soon there didn't you 🤣

Thanks ANightwatcher!

Oh ffs, they're back in investments.

Grrr
on it!

for the night staff. I think you may be in for a long night!

Thanks @Onevelvetmorning
need in that brew

Back in Investments, what a treat. Username ftyiujfghjk

We just have to all report them when we see them, it’s the only way to get rid and get them the message across there is no point posting if they get deleted quickly

Does anyone know why they would be posting that on an English language forum?

This isn't a human being doing all those posts, it'll be an automated bot, so it's pointless thinking you're giving a real person a message.

It isn't human - the automation just picks up the url to various fora and spams them with posts. It's a small scale form of DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack, designed to disrupt normal service.

MN should be taking this a lot more seriously than they are, it's like wakka-mole trying to report the posts individually. That's why they do it, to disrupt fora.

Is it Korean?

Yes Korean spam about a massage service

Poorly targeted, then!

I dunno actually - I quite fancy a nice massage after zapping all of that spam

The software firing the posts through, won't care about the message, it'll carry in regardless.

ok well it nothing else it will alert the mumsnet mods that the plague is all around the site.

It's like playing whack a mole

This has been going on for the last four nights, at least

Hi OP

Thanks for raising this - they have all been deleted and banned now.
We're discussing ways we can manage this in the office - in the meantime, please let us know if there's anything else you'd like us to look into.