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spammer accounts still active #129

@hcooper

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@hcooper

The account captcha was broken for a week or two, allowing a bunch of spammers to create accounts.

FirstnameLastnameNumber

Eyeballing accounts it seems these accounts still exist. There are many which take the format FirstnameLastnameNumber, e.g. SalinaBardin1

root@ropewiki ~ $ rwusers | sort | grep -E '[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]+'
[...]
2025-04-09 19:37:27     SalinaBardin1   Salina Bardin   gloriastingley@wuuvo.com
2025-04-09 19:52:00     LouisaCallanan7 Louisa Callanan jenica@c.seoneo.info
2025-04-09 20:03:33     TeriCurtis89    Teri Curtis     domingamcloud6609@freundin.ru
2025-04-09 20:45:28     RaeStringer469  Rae Stringer    rae_stringer_5789@stake-casinonova.lol
2025-04-09 21:32:54     JennyClaxton0   Jenny Claxton   jenny.claxton-8533@korailmail.com
2025-04-09 21:41:14     KevinKraegen7   Kevin Kraegen   kevinkraegen80@slave.ernsys.com
2025-04-09 23:06:28     RandiShackell9  Randi Shackell  maudeblackham@mailmenot.io
2025-04-09 23:52:25     TamelaBobbitt22 Tamela Bobbitt  nadiascarbrough3325@tempr.email
2025-04-10 00:08:50     LoreneMuskett4  Lorene Muskett  lorene-muskett-141@pcpomail.com
2025-04-10 00:29:38     LydaChatham3    Lyda Chatham    lydachatham.8810@stake-casinoprimetime.lol
2025-04-10 00:33:18     FatimaYke669    Fatima Coggins  eulaliaborders2329@bheps.com
2025-04-10 01:45:52     MirandaMintz36  Miranda Mintz   janabroadhurst@asia.dnsabr.com
2025-04-10 02:37:34     KrystleMassola0 Krystle Massola cissy@j.cosmicbridge.site
[...]

Note that this isn't universal: https://ropewiki.com/User:Saibraxia. We were likely hit but a whole bunch of different bots!

Note about account creation volume

Since maps have been limited to logged-in users only (starting 03-27), there have been lots of new accounts created. However @BenjaminPelletier fix to the captcha on 04-10 shows a steep drop off. So we can't just assume the overall rise is only spammer.

root@ropewiki ~ $ rwusers | sort | awk '{print $1}' | uniq -c
[...]
     1 2025-03-14
      1 2025-03-15
      1 2025-03-16
      2 2025-03-17
      1 2025-03-19
      1 2025-03-20
      1 2025-03-21
      2 2025-03-23
      1 2025-03-24
      1 2025-03-25
      1 2025-03-27
     13 2025-03-28
     24 2025-03-29
     42 2025-03-30
     56 2025-03-31
     85 2025-04-01
     97 2025-04-02
     78 2025-04-03
     71 2025-04-04
     71 2025-04-05
    119 2025-04-06
    125 2025-04-07
     90 2025-04-08
    112 2025-04-09
     37 2025-04-10
     21 2025-04-11
     16 2025-04-12
     16 2025-04-13
     23 2025-04-14
     27 2025-04-15
     25 2025-04-16
      1 2025-04-17

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