Bitcoin Forum

Title says it all really. I received the PM in question on December 6th, it was a spammy fake Gunbot PM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5299395.0) with a promo code. Similar to what is discussed in the link, same code anyways.

I reported the PM, and left it in my inbox, as sort of a reminder/notification. I rarely report PM's so I'm fuzzy here, on whether or not a nuked accounts PM's even get deleted in the same fashion as their posts would.

Even more confusing to me is, how the account is still alive and kicking today, sanjogita123 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2895827)

---

I don't know if there is a better way to prevent the spamming, apart from maybe not allowing Brand New no post accounts the ability to PM users apart from Admins.

The user sanjogita123 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2895827) is banned.

Any idea why this didn't show up in modlog (https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php)?

Most likely, the user was banned on December 6. It's been 8 days, the modlog has been updated and the ban record has disappeared.

I don't think it was ever in modlog. BPIP scraper would have caught it but it didn't.

I checked my older modlog archives: it wasn't there.

Is it a temporary ban?

Consider disable option "Allow newbies to send you PMs." on your profile option (you can find it by click "Profile", then "Personal Message Options").

Looks like no. I think the user was not just banned. Its nuked.

I actually keep it enable. There are spammers and scammer who are always active to flood the PM with their baits but there are also good users who are in need of help genuinely. It happened to me several occasions. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5295408.0) Anyway, it's personal preference.

I can not remember if I got such PM from the specific users but I can recall I have received many spams in my PM and all the time I ignored them. Their style says it all so ignoring the PMs are easy. But I realize now that a report will make it better.

Okay well that answers one of my questions. Any reason why a nuked users PM's don't automatically get erased in the same manner as their posts would?

I actually don't mind if newbies PM me, I do still get the odd one from time to time seeking mining advice. I rarely get anything annoying. This spam I don't mind as I can then at least report it, and I don't get these often enough for them to be a problem. This instance just seemed weird to me, like it might have been an oversight or something.

If I can guess: so Nuked users only show up on modlog when they made any posts?

I can think of several reasons:

• Unlike posts, you can delete a PM by yourself
• You may still want to keep the PM because you made a trade with the user
• You've already reported the PM so you won't fall for any scam they're trying to pull
• I don't think Admin wants to decide on personal messages.

I can't say anything about it. Maybe someone else on the staff knows the answer to your question.

Yeah not really a "personal" concern, more of an in general.

- If I report a PM spammer(possible scam) me deleting it doesn't help anyone else who received the PM and might fall for it
- Nuked users are brand new - So the chances of a trade and/or useful PM are lower than low
- I won't fall for it, but point one covers it
- I agree on most PM's, but again I'm only talking brand new nukeable accounts,

It just seems a weird blindspot when the term is nuked.

The option to allow newbies send you PMs was disabled by default some years back, see here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2728840.msg27932988#msg27932988). So anyone who enables it probably believes they can handle such messages even though it would potentially contain spam/scam (maybe cause their purpose on the forum requires them to interact with a lot of members, including newbies).

The newbie pm warning message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1043941.msg11249120#msg11249120) was also enabled some years ago.

All these serve as precautions to protect other members from the potential scam from new members and users who interact with them most probably do it intentionally for their reasons. Deleting private messages without the parties permission could be a line the admins would not want to cross.

I just have remembered I have received PM from a gunbot spammer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2894656) last week. I can't remember if I had reported him or not but I think someone has done as there's a neg tag on his profile from minerjones. bpip.org profile- https://bpip.org/Profile?id=2894656

It seems that that if a user gets nuked, his profile doesn't appear as banned on bpip. I checked it myself on this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5169754.0) that contains a bunch of nuked spammers from last year. If you search for the first three accounts on bpip, none of them show the 'Archived' info on bpip.

---

That is weird. The accounts I mentioned didn't show up as banned on bpip, but as I continued checking the list randomly, they started showing the 'Achieved' info. Now all the profiles seem to have it. But sanjogita123 still doesn't have it for some reason. Maybe the info got scrapped only after I started searching for the IDs, but that doesn't answer the question why sanjogita123 doesn't also show up as banned.   


That is just the thing. You can't know if and how many times he has sent the same PM to other users. He might have just targeted you and nobody else. The PMs could contain proof and valuable info and shouldn't be deleted.   

I'm not sure about it but I think the PMs does not go to the mods for to handle but to the admins. And if theymos or Cyrus have to check and delete it I guess it will take time.
The user has no posts at all so reporting him to the mods is almost impossible if you don't open an accusation thread or something like that.

BTW : Last Active: December 07, 2020, 12:21:27 AM


You are correct, I never actually reported any PMs and I had to check it. Now I know. Thanks.

I got a similar gunbot spam message from this user: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2876490

But he has been banned, according to BPIP. It seems like multiple bots are out here doing this, are people still getting messages like this?

Not just admins, even global mods get it as well so like 3 more people(Mr.Big, mprep, & hilariousandco).

You are right. I checked. A Nuked user does not appear in the list if they have not made any posts.

But Autobanned (https://bpip.org/Profile?p=KasminPopa109) users without posts do show up in modlog :)

These are two different types of bans. It is likely that they are handled differently.