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Re: STILL ALIVEs [Dec 11th, March 9th] and [March 9th, April 2nd]

3-Apr-19 6:00

thanks... I have edited the message. @Sean-ewington would you like to wipe his reports?

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Sean Ewington3-Apr-19 6:15

Sean Ewington

3-Apr-19 6:15

Done.

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Spam would be article ("NOW THERE IS NO NEED OF SURGICAL TREATMENTS TO CURE YOU ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND PREMATURE EJACULATION", Member 14210850)

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 22:46

Spammer from moderation queue (Johnsmith12212)

2-Apr-19 22:46

The name says it all: NOW THERE IS NO NEED OF SURGICAL TREATMENTS TO CURE YOU ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND PREMATURE EJACULATION[^]
From this: Member 14210850 - Professional Profile[^]

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phil.o3-Apr-19 8:31

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3-Apr-19 8:31

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OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 21:24

Other articles by the same member: Mahsa Hassankashi (double link corrected)

2-Apr-19 21:24

Essay writing: Johnsmith12212 - Professional Profile[^]

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Maciej Los3-Apr-19 10:44

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3-Apr-19 10:44

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 20:19

Re: Other articles by the same member: Mahsa Hassankashi

2-Apr-19 20:19

These all contain links to the same site as the original report below, normally disguised in the "normal download" spot:
Automatic Table Generation in any database by NHibernate ORM and CodeDom for code generation[^]
List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary[^]
Security On The Web By Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)[^]
Real Time Web Solution for Chat by MVC SignalR Hub[^]
AngularJS MVC Repository Dispose[^]
Dynamic Treeview with Drag and Drop by Kendo[^] - missed link last time.
Her others all appear clear.

A click on the link takes me to a different site from the link address where I was asked to "Prove my humanity" before being sent off to instal an app. (I proved my robothood and didn't).

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modified 3-Apr-19 8:10am.

Peter_in_27802-Apr-19 21:32

Peter_in_2780

2-Apr-19 21:32

All the articles 5'd and gone. btw, duplicate link to the last one.

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Re: Other articles by the same member: Mahsa Hassankashi

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 21:50

Re: Other articles by the same member: Mahsa Hassankashi (double link corrected)

2-Apr-19 21:50

Clearly I forgot to press CTRL+C ... D'Oh! | :doh:

Fixed, thanks!

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Sean Ewington3-Apr-19 2:23

Sean Ewington

3-Apr-19 2:23

I've gone through all the other articles to double check. They are indeed clear.

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Spammer from moderation queue (arlotechcare)

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 20:01

Spam article ("List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary", Mahsa Hassankashi)

2-Apr-19 20:01

Tech support: arlotechcare - Professional Profile[^]

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Maciej Los3-Apr-19 10:45

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3-Apr-19 10:45

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 19:55

Should we kick the author?

2-Apr-19 19:55

This: List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary[^]

Check the download links - the second goes to a known spam / phishing site rather than CP.
(I'll check the OP's others when I'm on the desktop - it's a PITA on tablet)

Thanks to PTurtle - Professional Profile[^] who spotted it: A spammer has put a phishing link on article 832189[^]

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modified 3-Apr-19 8:10am.

Thomas Daniels2-Apr-19 22:01

Thomas Daniels

2-Apr-19 22:01

Should we kick-vote the author this early though? The phishing/spam link appeared to be an actual tech website at some point (web.archive snapshot from 2014[^]) so the original owner probably didn't renew the domain and scammers bought it... the author also has 20 articles and was MVP 2018, so I'd lean towards giving the benefit of the doubt about the (former) legitimacy of the reported links.

OriginalGriff2-Apr-19 22:42

2-Apr-19 22:42

That's a difficult one: I'm reluctant to be the one suggesting a "special rule" for MVP / high ranking members because that's always going to be seen as self serving, even if it isn't intended that way. And she has clearly broken the rules: if she had hosted the downloads on CP (like the other half of most of her links per article) then this problem would never have arisen.

Add in that we can't really contact her directly to explain our position without a potential public food fight that I'd like to avoid, and it gets more difficult.

I'd say for the moment we kick her so that she doesn't automatically restore them and we end up chasing new versions for weeks, but we ask @Sean-Ewington to have a private word (as staff) and explain the position. He has the power to reanimate her account and her other articles won't be lost in the meantime. So if she has the download sources for the suspect articles (and that's a big if, given they are five odd years old) she can repost them herself with onsite links.

Sound like a plan?

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Thomas Daniels2-Apr-19 22:58

Thomas Daniels

2-Apr-19 22:58

Yeah, that sounds good.

Nelek3-Apr-19 2:05

3-Apr-19 2:05

I agree with him but I agree with you too, so I have given the last kick to the article with corrected link and the user is almost gone.

I would recommend @Sean-Ewington to have a look in the DB, just in case that site is being used in other articles to host downloads (which would increase the probability of @programfox being right about that pretty nasty coincidence)

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington3-Apr-19 2:04

Sean Ewington

3-Apr-19 2:04

Definitely don't kick the author. Scammers purchase abandoned domains all the time. How can an author be held responsible for that?

I'll have a word.

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

OriginalGriff3-Apr-19 2:10

3-Apr-19 2:10

Author link removed. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Nelek3-Apr-19 2:20

Re: Spam article ("List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary", Mahsa Hassankashi)

3-Apr-19 2:20

Then please wipe the reports... mine was the 8th or 9th

M.D.V.

Nelek3-Apr-19 1:57

Re: Spam article ("List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary", Mahsa Hassankashi)

3-Apr-19 1:57

I suppose you wanted to "summon" him, instead of linking his profile... I changed it

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff3-Apr-19 2:03

Re: Spam article ("List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary", Mahsa Hassankashi)

3-Apr-19 2:03

No, I was happy with a link - I told him on his report that I had done it for him.

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Nelek3-Apr-19 2:06

Re: Spam article ("List vs IEnumerable vs IQueryable vs ICollection vs IDictionary", Mahsa Hassankashi)

3-Apr-19 2:06

Then... sorry.

I'll change it back

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff3-Apr-19 2:11