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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have spent the best  part of an hour this morning shifting spam , all black magic spell . If it really works the curses I put on the posters will have cause them a lot of pain and more . I stop counting after sixty removals but think there were in access of a hundred and fifty or so . Apologies if it’s stopped you from visiting the forum , but unfortunately they have to be removed one at a time . There were also eleven blocked by the system that might have been on the gallery . Hopefully normal service resumed.

Alan Bickley

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I removed around 20 or so during the early hours. All spell casting rubbish I think!

Norrette Moore

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Likewise yesterday lunchtime
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Yes I had a shift it session yesterday morning as well as early hours of this morning, the main batch was there around six thirty and had been listed about thirty minutes before I discovered them . 

Tessa Gwynne

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Thank you Moderators as ever! I had a look earlier and saw this morning’s weekend special load of junk. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Yes - I had a go at some of them, I lost count in the end but kept squishing: what genuinely puzzles me is this - these people, OK these bots probably, use computers, and aim their rubbish at people who also use computers: computers are quite technologically advanced - you don't have to be a tech expert to use them, if you had to be I'd be in real trouble, but you've got to have a certain intellectual grip....   And yet, they assume that people who live and work and operate in the 21st century are going to be soft touches for spells, incantations, black magic aimed at recapturing a lost love, or even locating your departed husband or wife (who probably wants to stay unlocated: that'll be why they left..).  How do you manage to live in the modern world, yet still have a belief in archaic superstition?  Sorry, Magic Mustapha, Sage Sybill, and other repositories of ancient "wisdom", but a) I don't get it (or want it), and b) what on earth leads even a bot to suppose that our select little bunch of arty types are likely to be investing their pensions in love potions?   I mean, if they worked, Sylvia and I would be thrusting our carefully garnered savings at them, but surely to God everyone here knows that they don't... This little rant won't make even a hint's worth of difference to them of course, but I feel better for expressing it..
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It’s been the worse spam for weeks and since around five this morning I have shifted countless numbers of the rubbish I think it’s taken me the best part of one and a half to two hours and that not exaggerating . All the same rubbish aimed at different countries, they offer to kill , maim , and cause agony to mother in laws , husbands, wife , if it really works my curses on them would be so painful.
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Do you have any examples of posts that made it past the auto-detection filters?

Alan Bickley

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All mine were deleted Mark, and the poster or posters banned… Do you want the moderators to leave one as an example? Alan
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I just delete them  as they are not appropriate for this site and would not  leave any as an example .  They were all over the forum earlier today and around lunchtime for anyone to see before we managed to clear them so that legitimate post could seen .  Mark if they come up again I will take  screen shots and post them  to Dawn or Tierney if that helps , I never thought of asking if you could use examples. 

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Thank you, guys. I will look in the database for the deleted items and see if we can tweak the rules to prevent future posts.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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We have had several day of Black Magic, casting spell, etc so there will probably be something in there Mark . They use different words to the fake money and drug spammers hence it probably got past the system though a couple were picked up for moderators to make the  decision to  delete. 
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