UK_Palms Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 Just a heads up that similar links that were spammed onto another online forum resulted in users having personal information and credit credit details stolen. Do not open the posts. Certainly do not risk clicking any links in there by mistake. The site must have been hit by bots or ransomware/Trojan or something. I have noticed it more and more in recent weeks. They are hoping someone accidentally clicks a link and they get your details from your desktop. Be careful. Hopefully mods can take them down but there is like 20+ pages of it spammed. This is certainly the worst case of it I have ever seen. Very annoying as we can’t see the most recent legitimate posts on here without trawling through all this nonsense. Stay safe. 4 5 Dry-summer Oceanic climate (9a) Average annual precipitation - 18.7 inches : Average annual sunshine hours - 1725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Tex Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 3 minutes ago, UK_Palms said: Just a heads up that similar links that were spammed onto another online forum resulted in users having personal information and credit credit details stolen. Do not open the posts. Certainly do not risk clicking any links in there by mistake. The site must have been hit by bots or ransomware/Trojan or something. I have noticed it more and more in recent weeks. They are hoping someone accidentally clicks a link and they get your details from your desktop. Be careful. Hopefully mods can take them down but there is like 20+ pages of it spammed. This is certainly the worst case of it I have ever seen. Very annoying as we can’t see the most recent legitimate posts on here without trawling through all this nonsense. Stay safe. this is all disgusting 2 Inground- 1x Syagrus romanzoffiana 2x Livingstona Chinensis 5x Phoenix Robelleni In Pots- 3x Sabal Mexicana 5x Phoenix dactylifera 4x Sabal Palmetto 3x Livingstona Chinensis 3x Ravenea Rivularis 6x Cycas Revoluta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_Palms Posted March 14 Author Report Share Posted March 14 2 hours ago, Little Tex said: this is all disgusting There are 37 pages solid of all this crap now just from the past few hours. The mods are going to have their work cut out trying to remove it all. I have never seen bot spam this bad on any forum before. The main section is flooded. I don’t understand how all these fake/bot accounts were able to get authorised in one go? There must have been loads of submissions, which should have appeared sketchy. Or is it some kind of virus in the system that is generating and approving its own accounts to use? 1 Dry-summer Oceanic climate (9a) Average annual precipitation - 18.7 inches : Average annual sunshine hours - 1725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Tex Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 This is bad especially considering how many minors(including me) are on this site, but I made my account not to long ago and I dont remember my account needing to be authorized. 2 Inground- 1x Syagrus romanzoffiana 2x Livingstona Chinensis 5x Phoenix Robelleni In Pots- 3x Sabal Mexicana 5x Phoenix dactylifera 4x Sabal Palmetto 3x Livingstona Chinensis 3x Ravenea Rivularis 6x Cycas Revoluta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaianaeCrider Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 What is this "mystery" site? Steve Born in the Bronx Raised in Brooklyn Matured In Wai`anae I can't be held responsible for anything I say or do....LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 @WaianaeCrider Be happy you can't see the 46+ pages of absolutely revolting trash spam posts that greeted everyone this morning. Our Palm Mod has been hard at work today, and will probably have several more days of work to keep our PalmTalk site clean from these insane bots. Thank you Palm Mod! 3 2 Kim Cyr Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PALM MOD Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 19 minutes ago, Kim said: @WaianaeCrider Be happy you can't see the 46+ pages of absolutely revolting trash spam posts that greeted everyone this morning. Our Palm Mod has been hard at work today, and will probably have several more days of work to keep our PalmTalk site clean from these insane bots. Thank you Palm Mod! Thanks Kim. These nut cases are trying 24/7 to hack into and onto popular sites. Some are more clever than others. They find holes - we plug 'em. 1 2 Thanks to those of you who help make this a fun and friendly forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darold Petty Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 Thank you, so much, Dean for your constant work ! 1 San Francisco, California Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLM Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 I havent clicked on any and dont plan to. Luckily registrations to the forum have been disabled temporarily. If nothing can be done to stop this, i would consider the forum too unsafe to frequent myself on at that point. Sometimes accidental clicks happen. Whatever this group is has utilized the guest posting feature earlier today and created their trash in the Tahina section. As @Little Texmentioned, there are minors on here, myself included. It really is a safety hazard to everyone here and hopefully it can be addressed within the next couple of days. As i stated in the thread i created on the matter, the forum is under cyber attack, and all we can really do right now is report and remove. Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 2 W. bifurcata, 6 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 2 P. sylvestris, 1 Butia x Jubaea, 1 Butia x Jubaea x Butia x Syagrus, 1 X Butiagrus nabonnandii, 2 L. chinensis, 1 Cocos nucifera, 1 Phoenix roebelenii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLM Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 Tahina Questions has been absolutely trashed. Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 2 W. bifurcata, 6 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 2 P. sylvestris, 1 Butia x Jubaea, 1 Butia x Jubaea x Butia x Syagrus, 1 X Butiagrus nabonnandii, 2 L. chinensis, 1 Cocos nucifera, 1 Phoenix roebelenii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 Guys, it's not necessary to post screenshots of those links. Remember? We don't want to see them? Someone said minors should not be subjected to this disgusting garbage? Report, yes. Please refrain from unnecessary sharing of the very same stuff nobody wants to see. Thank you. 2 1 Kim Cyr Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLM Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 21 hours ago, Kim said: Guys, it's not necessary to post screenshots of those links. Remember? We don't want to see them? Someone said minors should not be subjected to this disgusting garbage? Report, yes. Please refrain from unnecessary sharing of the very same stuff nobody wants to see. Thank you. I didnt see this until now. Just posted one and didnt realize i have been asked to stop. I reckon we will see it anyway, with or without the screenshots. I apologize. Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 2 W. bifurcata, 6 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 2 P. sylvestris, 1 Butia x Jubaea, 1 Butia x Jubaea x Butia x Syagrus, 1 X Butiagrus nabonnandii, 2 L. chinensis, 1 Cocos nucifera, 1 Phoenix roebelenii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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