Spam and Abuse Watch

Nelek10-Nov-12 5:04

10-Nov-12 5:04

3 on each post and each user at the moment. Weekend has weeked the CP protection guard Poke tongue | ;-P

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OriginalGriff10-Nov-12 5:16

10-Nov-12 5:16

Hah! We'll get the S.O.Bs! Laugh | :laugh:

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

Nelek10-Nov-12 5:18

10-Nov-12 5:18

OriginalGriff wrote:
S.O.Bs

??

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sorry I don't get it Sigh | :sigh:

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OriginalGriff10-Nov-12 5:27

10-Nov-12 5:27

Sorry - my fault, it's an common English / American abbreviation for Sons Of Bitches.
I sometimes forget this site is quite as international as it is... Blush | :O

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

Nelek10-Nov-12 5:36

10-Nov-12 5:36

Ahh... Ok. Big Grin | :-D

Agree

I don't know if it will interest you, but the same abbreviation on spanish is: H.D.P. Poke tongue | ;-P

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OriginalGriff10-Nov-12 5:41

10-Nov-12 5:41

I've added it to my "swear in foreign languages" list! Laugh | :laugh:

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

Mission CP Reputation !?

MT_9-Nov-12 0:35

MT_

9-Nov-12 0:35

This guy http://www.codeproject.com/Members/gopal-pradhan[^] seems on Mission CP Reputation.

http://www.codeproject.com/Members/goopu_2000[^] asked four question (mostly silly) and within minutes this member replied all the four with a fiver and accepted within minutes too !!

There were couple answers on which I commented and probably rubbed him wrong way and I am 99% sure this member in retaliation downvoted my 10 answers (even many of them highly voted and accepted).
Intriguingly, the name of member is Gopal and the other member's name is Goopu (In India people call Gopal as Goopu as nickname). Suspicion that one can be troll.

The links to four questions:
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/goopu_2000[^]
Difference between Web reference and Service reference ?[^]
Which is the best practise to use application state in asp.net page ?[^]
Can I pass arguments with server.transfer ?[^]

Thanks,
Milind

Not sure about this one

Nelek8-Nov-12 22:10

Re: Not sure about this one

8-Nov-12 22:10

Solution 4 in eBay API's and VB.NET/ASP.NET[^] (message from 2010)

It is advertising a firm, but not sure if it should be considered as spam since it seems to be related to the question (2 years+ late but...)

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SoMad8-Nov-12 22:26

SoMad

8-Nov-12 22:26

When I see someone waking up an old question (in this case 2 years old), I usually go for at least a down-vote unless it is an extremely good answer.
This is advertisement and waking the post up moves it to the top of the list in QA so other people will notice it. I am going for the report.

Soren Madsen

Spammer with problems in keyboard

Nelek8-Nov-12 21:56

This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

8-Nov-12 21:56

Solution 2 in: ASP.net detailsview Insert[^]

Comments in question: how i can convert html to pdf by .net code[^]

User: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9359564[^]

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov8-Nov-12 20:37

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

8-Nov-12 20:37

Even though it's not so apparent (this time, this is software, not lady's bags or attorney services), but in fact this is a trivial spam: Shapzzle - Review Request[^] by http://www.codeproject.com/Members/RV-AppStudios[^].

Selling games on Microsoft store, even in a legitimate way, in not an excuse for advertising them at CodeProject.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Nelek8-Nov-12 20:56

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

8-Nov-12 20:56

QA Item: banned
User (at the moment): 4 of 5

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov9-Nov-12 2:24

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

9-Nov-12 2:24

Thank you, Nelek.

I'm not sure I got it. Are you saying that you know a way to see how many members reported for spam/abuse on a member account? How? Or and I missing something? Then how you see "4 of 5"?

Thank you,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Brisingr Aerowing9-Nov-12 3:18

Brisingr Aerowing

9-Nov-12 3:18

When you report, it gives you 'N Votes', where N is the number of votes given. As 5 is needed to eliminate the perp, one can figure out how many votes out of five have been administered.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

Nelek9-Nov-12 7:24

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

9-Nov-12 7:24

Next time pay attention to the field where the report button is. After you click on the reason it changes and says how many reports are saved for that user.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov9-Nov-12 7:30

Re: This "review request" is merely a shameless commercial spam

9-Nov-12 7:30

Somehow, I failed to see it so far. I'll try again when I face a need to report again.

Thank you, Nelek.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Nelek9-Nov-12 7:33

CodeProject article ripoff site detected

9-Nov-12 7:33

You are welcome Smile | :)

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy8-Nov-12 3:26

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

8-Nov-12 3:26

While searching for articles on the net I chanced upon this site sporting an article that was obviously stolen from CodeProject.

RipOff site: http://netcode.ru/dotnet/?lang=&katID=30&skatID=283&artID=7833[^].

Article here on CP: Creating a non rectangular form using GDI+[^]

The ripoff site gave proper credit to neither the author nor to CodeProject and they even removed the authors data from the article. They were not very clever though as they left this little gem in it: "This is my first article for CodeProject". Which is pretty much a dead give away.

BUSTED!

I hope Chris will unleash the hamsters upon them and have these guys torn to shreds. Mad | :mad:

Regards,

— Manfred

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

Re: CodeProject article ripoff site detected

Sean Ewington8-Nov-12 5:18

Sean Ewington

8-Nov-12 5:18

Thanks very much for the catch Manfred, consider the hamsters unleashed.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Re: CodeProject article ripoff site detected

Manfred Rudolf Bihy8-Nov-12 5:19

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

8-Nov-12 5:19

Thanks Sean!

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

Existing article update spam

OriginalGriff8-Nov-12 0:59

Re: Existing article update spam

8-Nov-12 0:59

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=49172&aid=54834[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/alisissa[^]

The TIp is just a link, the link document is lttle bigger than teh tip and contain almost no info. I have to conclude this is just to get links and / or traffic to his site. Spam.

[edit]
A quick check shows all but one of his Tips are the same:
Unable to translate Unicode character \uD8E4 at index 16 to specified code page[^]
cannot access a closed file[^]
Smart Navigation [^]
Exclude folders while building in web deployment projects[^]
Error 32 An error occurred when merging assemblies: The relative virtual path 'S3.0/global.asax' is not allowed here. aspnet_merge 1 1 Mems_deploy [^]
BC30456: 'CreateResourceBasedLiteralControl' is not a member of[^]
-OriginalGriff[/edit]

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

modified 8-Nov-12 7:42am.

Jochen Arndt8-Nov-12 2:20

Jochen Arndt

8-Nov-12 2:20

I noticed this too but did not had a look on the others. Don't know why these has been approved in the past. The tip has been updated because the old link does not work anymore. The same with the others: All links are dead.

I did not approve the updated tip, because there is not enough content. But I also did not reported it because that would let the old version with the dead link stay here.

EDIT:
Just recognized that the new version has been rejected. Than the old versions should be also deleted.

New kind of spam: promoting PHP diet!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov7-Nov-12 13:55