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Old 02-20-15, 03:08 PM  
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I have learned that vBulletin forums (and perhaps other types of forums too) all over the world are experiencing a huge increase in this sort of bot activity in the past few weeks. These bots are hitting thousands of accounts simultaneously, trying to get in to accounts, though I really don't know what there is of value in most vBulletin databases unless they are that desperate for email addresses. I am keeping my eye out for any plug ins or ways to combat it, but we are not the only ones experiencing this and so far there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it.

As I said before, they get locked out after a few attempts, so it's mostly just an annoyance, but it definitely IS annoying.
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Old 02-20-15, 03:50 PM  
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Just happened today:

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 183.207.224.51
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Old 02-20-15, 04:31 PM  
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The email I received has this IP 31.31.162.92 I looked it up on an IP tracker website...it is from Vargarda Sweden. So weird!
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Old 02-21-15, 03:53 PM  
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I got this email last night.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 183.222.166.247

Thanks Wendy.
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Old 02-23-15, 05:59 AM  
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It looks like they got into jenlet99. She hasn't posted since 2007, but I received a spam private message from her this morning.
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Old 02-23-15, 06:02 AM  
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It looks like they got into jenlet99. She hasn't posted since 2007, but I received a spam private message from her this morning.
I got spam from her, too, asking if I wanted to become a Master Lucid Dreamer.
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Old 02-23-15, 06:15 AM  
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Me too

I got the jenlet spam too.
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Old 02-23-15, 06:15 AM  
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It looks like they got into jenlet99. She hasn't posted since 2007, but I received a spam private message from her this morning.
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I got spam from her, too, asking if I wanted to become a Master Lucid Dreamer.
Me too. I got the same private message from her.
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Old 02-23-15, 06:35 AM  
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I got the same spam message
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Old 02-23-15, 06:43 AM  
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I got the spam message too
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