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Backyard Poultry - FAKE STATISTICS - Community Announcement

This was beteween Saturday 23/3/13 and Tuesday 26/3/13

7 emails were sent to both email address requesting an explanation to this and to date no reply.


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Normally I would delete this type of post and ultimately Admin may do just that if and when they see it as they strictly prohibit that site getting any mention for good reason. As this has upset a few and many are angry with messages and emails going in all directions at what they witnessed and still are {I did not} I think for balance here is part of an "explanation" from a "person" appointed (not the owner) to help look after that very small forum.



Now this is possible BUT if this is true then 519 people {so far} suddenly decided to activate in an extremely short time and that would be extremely unusual to say the least, The odds of you winning lotto 10 times in a row are more realistic. Even the big forums in the world like APF and BYC would not have this high number suddenly want to activate old memberships in such a short time. {confirmed by I.T) It just does not happen unless its all fake.

Its a shame the owner (Elizabeth Wagstaff aka Vardy) did not bother to answer malaygame7 emails no doubt very

Best to stay away from it, especially your kids


LooLoo

Update..... The moderator Catherine Newton of Morayfield Qld (NOT the owner) her contact details are readily available on the internet including at http://www.freewebs.com/harmonyhollow/h ... s/qld.html If this information is in correct please let me know so I can amend it.



LooLoo

It has come to my attention and forwarded to the owners of APF for legal review of a topic on Backyard Poultry where people in glass houses are throwing stones YET AGAIN, big mistake. They have many time in the past attempted to "pick a fight" with us with slanderous topics and posts making false accusations such as the current hypocrisy nonsense (24 posts all copied and forward to the owners of APF). These posts are complete lies and are in retaliation for exposing their very dubious statistic in this topic which are fact with proof.

So lets look at them in detail shall we.. more at

BE AWARE identity maybe copied on another site

Beware of spammers on Backyard Poultry

Backyard Poultry Admin Stealing Pictures

Please make sure EVERYONE reads this Topic and the links and stay safe and please protect your identity.

Let your friends know also



LooLoo

Sleeper Spam accounts

One option old-school forum spammers used to employ was to create sleeper accounts that were activated later on. They do nothing initially then suddenly activate the registration [On forums that have user activation via email] after days, weeks or years and then they start posting links, either in forum posts or in profiles or both. One tell of probable sleepers are, apart from the zero posts is junky-looking email and the name pattern is usually the same, a name followed by 3 or more digits.

Spammers (especially sleepers):

* Create bare minimum accounts since every board is different (avatar size, method, and type for example), they are only interested in quantity of penetration, not quality.

* Make off topic, vacuous, plain, and unobtrusive posts, if any.

* Could care less about the happenings on the board. Truly not there, asleep.

* When the sleeper spammer awakens, they may attack with their spam ads, profile details, and signature links... in minutes.

* Spammers for the most part are human commanded robot processes interacting with the sites. The human's machine never connects directly with the site for fear of exposure.

* Lastly, most spammers are using robot processes on server farms, cloud networks, or hijacked machines to sling their crap. Identity is protected because the human has no direct interaction with the site, other than to check the public areas to see if his account is active, or that his spam was posted.

Source Reference http://www.stopforumspam.com/

There are NO Sleeper Spam accounts on APF nor ANY spammers or scammers here. Confirmed by our Professional I.T Department.


LooLoo

ACP Add User MOD

Modification description: Adds a new Module that enables an Administrator to create a new user account through the Administration Control Panel
Adds an extra permission to allow administrator to create a new user account.
Gives the administrator the ability to instantly approve a new member after creation.
Gives the admin the ability to choose password for the new user

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=580108

APF does not have this but others may?


LooLoo

Just reminding all our Members and Guest to be careful with posting personal info and photos on the internet that are not watermarked as they can and are at times stolen by some.

Here is an example of the crime of theft Backyard Poultry Admin Stealing Pictures

Here is a LARGE discussion on suspected identities copied BE AWARE identity maybe copied on another site

Here is an example of a VERY LARGE number of spammers on a very small site Beware of spammers on Backyard Poultry

Please use the Forum Photo Gallery where possible as it has automatic watermark to help protect your pictures from these types.

If your picture is stolen, contact the person who posted it first asking for the picture to be removed then the site owner if you get no response.

In the examples its
Elizabeth Wagstaff (was Vardy)
Address............. WOA
Home Ph.............WOA
Mobile Ph............WOA
Work place..........WOA
Work Ph..............WOA
Email..................WOA
Email..................WOA