IRC Spammer / Impersonator

mezoko · 2007-12-27 18:23:44

This morning I was informed by a TU via Private Message on IRC that there were spammer impersonating me. He first ask what happened last night and as I had no idea what he was talking about this was when I first discovered what happened.

There are some wonderful people (for lack of a nicer term) who think its funny to impersonate me and spam the channel.

My hostname is almost always adsl-75-33-32-137.dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net very rarely do I connect to IRC using a different net connection (usually just ssh into my home box). The ip is dynamic so it will change, but it should match with mezoko.net

I think these spammers are ajnewbold and impl. They helped me out with some php coding about a year ago. They were nice people, but they slowly started pull crap on me and I didn't put up with so I think this their revenge.

**Ajnewbold and impl (he was under the alias of "hary" something, I don't remember) spammed the channel about a week ago so I'm not sure if they'll stop, hence the reason for this posting.

So basically I want to clear up a few things
1. The spammers last night were not me
2. If username mezoko does not have a host name similar to dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net there is a good chance it is not me
3. To any TU/OP/Dev please do not ban my user name from IRC, please ban the hostname if the problem arises again.

Thank you all for your understanding,
-Mezoko

iphitus · 2007-12-27 21:24:11

in future, register your nickname so you can take it back off them.

mezoko · 2007-12-27 22:28:10

Both mezoko and mezokoX are registered, I was not around when this happened, but I was informed about it

mezoko · 2007-12-28 05:10:24

I have setup BIP which from my understanding is a irc proxy / bouncer. I have both mezoko and mezokoX setup and running so there should be no spammers on those two user names. Thanks again for everyone's understanding!

neotuli · 2007-12-28 16:49:13

you can also enable autokill on nickserv. it'll boot people using your name if they dont login after X time (which you could set to like... 2 seconds since you can send your nickserv password as your server password on freenode)

mezoko · 2007-12-28 20:27:12

Yes, but freenode as disabled this

cactus · 2007-12-28 21:14:14

i think freenode just disabled the kill immed (immediate) one.
I thought the following still worked if you were identified (nick registered and identified).

/msg NickServ set AUTOMASK on
/msg NickServ set KILL on
/msg NIckServ set SECURE on

dunno for sure. *excessive shrugging*

byte · 2007-12-28 22:53:47

No, it's disabled. Completely.

mucknert · 2007-12-31 10:01:07

To get back on topic: this whole thread is useless. If something happened on IRC, apologize on IRC and not to the Mailinglist and the BBS. You know: most people here couldn't care less what happened on IRC. Geez, talk about spam here.

mezoko · 2007-12-31 13:46:05

Excuse me, but I want to clear up that I was not spammer. It is hard to leave a message in IRC that everyone will see. I also wanted the OP's to see this so they don't go banning my username.

Lately there have been a few spammers on different times that have been targeting me, I wouldn't be surprised if they move to the forums next btw :-/

jacko · 2008-01-05 05:13:37

mezoko wrote:

Excuse me, but I want to clear up that I was not spammer. It is hard to leave a message in IRC that everyone will see. I also wanted the OP's to see this so they don't go banning my username.
Lately there have been a few spammers on different times that have been targeting me, I wouldn't be surprised if they move to the forums next btw :-/

quite honestly and in all fairness, u are making it worse by taking it public. Trolls never learn and troll bait like this post will just make them target u harder.

out of sight out of mind.

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#1 2007-12-27 18:23:44

IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#2 2007-12-27 21:24:11

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#3 2007-12-27 22:28:10

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#4 2007-12-28 05:10:24

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#5 2007-12-28 16:49:13

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#6 2007-12-28 20:27:12

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#7 2007-12-28 21:14:14

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#8 2007-12-28 22:53:47

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#9 2007-12-31 10:01:07

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#10 2007-12-31 13:46:05

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

#11 2008-01-05 05:13:37

Re: IRC Spammer / Impersonator

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