Can TEMU be sued for site spamming?

[DizzyDigger]

I don't know.

I do know that if I were the site owners (likely an LLC), I'd be asking the
corp. attorney to send a "cease and desist" nastygram to TEMU's ownership,
politely telling them what they can go do with their spam.

 

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[AstralDruid]

Looks like Tnet is under attack !!!

 

[AstralDruid]

Seriously though,, the Admins gonna have their work cut out, i reckon.... I had a web forum of mine destroyed by this type of thing,, way back when..

Get on it TNET..... be ruthless

 

[Red-Coat]

I don't know if it's the case here, but the problem is often that these kinds of posts are not actually coming from Temu itself (or other companies referred to in similar postings or emails). They're coming from criminal spammers whose objective is to harvest your personal details if you are foolish enough to click on the links.

They trade on the popularity of the the company they purport to come from and the (usually empty) promise of something for nothing.

On another forum on which I moderate, we have blocked IP addresses from certain countries but sender email addresses and email addresses used for sign-ups are often disguised by the use of ever-changing proxy IP addresses which makes them difficult to deny. We also require new members to wait for authorisation before they are able to post, during which we check for inconsistencies between claimed locations and IP addresses and run their email and IP addresses through commercial spam databases to check if they have been reported elsewhere. It's an imperfect solution, but greatly reduces the volume of spammers targeting us.

 

[pepperj]

It certainly has increased in volume over the past year.
Time consuming task for the site moderator that handles the task of cleaning up and blocking them.

The protection of sites is seemingly getting more complex.

Email or phone codes, moderator authorization and all because of these problems.

How many bicycles do you see?
How many bicycles do you see?
Authorization number has been sent to the device, enter it here.

 

[DizzyDigger]

On another forum on which I moderate, we have blocked IP addresses from certain countries but sender email addresses and email addresses used for sign-ups are often disguised by the use of ever-changing proxy IP addresses which makes them difficult to deny. We also require new members to wait for authorization before they are able to post, during which we check for inconsistencies between claimed locations and IP addresses and run their email and IP addresses through commercial spam databases to check if they have been reported elsewhere. It's an imperfect solution, but greatly reduces the volume of spammers targeting us.

I've also moderated/admin'd on several different forums in years past, and those are the same techniques I used to sort out spammers before they have a chance to mess up the forums. I would suspect that the great crew of mods/admin's here do much the same.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Only about 10% of TEMU spammers are actually slipping through and posting compared to the number caught and blocked, it is impossible to catch and block all before they post..

11 banned last 8 hours. 26 banned yesterday

 

[pepperj]

Only about 10% of TEMU spammers are actually slipping through and posting compared to the number caught and blocked, it is impossible to catch and block all before they post..

That's just crazy to have that many trying.

TEMU-screw you.
I certainly avoid purchasing anything from their site.

I'm sure after lots of people get scammed by these trolls/hackers TEMU maybe will start to implement some security features. 🤔

 

[SeabeeRon]

I don't know if it's the case here, but the problem is often that these kinds of posts are not actually coming from Temu itself (or other companies referred to in similar postings or emails). They're coming from criminal spammers whose objective is to harvest your personal details if you are foolish enough to click on the links.

They trade on the popularity of the the company they purport to come from and the (usually empty) promise of something for nothing.

On another forum on which I moderate, we have blocked IP addresses from certain countries but sender email addresses and email addresses used for sign-ups are often disguised by the use of ever-changing proxy IP addresses which makes them difficult to deny. We also require new members to wait for authorisation before they are able to post, during which we check for inconsistencies between claimed locations and IP addresses and run their email and IP addresses through commercial spam databases to check if they have been reported elsewhere. It's an imperfect solution, but greatly reduces the volume of spammers targeting us.

We do that on FMDF as well, block IPs from certain known countries who spread spam!

 

[pepperj]

We do that on FMDF as well, block IPs from certain known countries who spread spam!

No wonder I can never sign on.🤣

 

[SeabeeRon]

No wonder I can never sign on.🤣

We know where you live!

 

[pepperj]

We know where you live!

Oh gee my Iberia IP gave me away again.
Let me change it.
There Azerbaijan is correct.

 

[AstralDruid]

Just as a way of keeping the temu crap down the list (at least) everyone needs to post something in their fave threads or discussions... Bump those threads Tnetters

 

[AusTexDude]

I just ignore every account that posts them and all their threads vanish

 

[ARC]

I remember the Undernet in the 90's...
I was an operator for a time... some days were a nightmare.
When the sites were targeted by what we referred to as "lamers"....
My kick / ban hand was strong.

In those days packet send attacks were the norm for both sides.
IF you were hit...
Blue screen shut down.
It got crazy ... it was a war really.

 

[ARC]

I remember the Undernet in the 90's...
I was an operator for a time... some days were a nightmare.
When the sites were targeted by what we referred to as "lamers"....
My kick / ban hand was strong.

In those days packet send attacks were the norm for both sides.
IF you were hit...
Blue screen shut down.
It got crazy ... it was a war really.

I have to add... for i chuckled to myself... heh...
When you would get blue screened.... it would really piss you off...
You would be like ..
"oh you SOB.... damnit... cussing ..... all the way to reboot...
AND THEN...
You would be on dail up modem.... and trying to reconnect was real pain... and you ping ponging ... trying to get back on as fast as you can to get back on to retaliate / ban them etc etc.
Frustrating and pissed off cussing at your modem to frigging CONNECT DAMNIT ! ! !

 

[pepperj]

I have to add... for i chuckled to myself... heh...
When you would get blue screened.... it would really piss you off...
You would be like ..
"oh you SOB.... damnit... cussing ..... all the way to reboot...
AND THEN...
You would be on dail up modem.... and trying to reconnect was real pain... and you ping ponging ... trying to get back on as fast as you can to get back on to retaliate / ban them etc etc.
Frustrating and pissed off cussing at your modem to frigging CONNECT DAMNIT ! ! !

The world has come along ways it seems.
At the local Xmas dinner event. Neighbor was frustrated over a tech. issue.
I finally asked like what's up.
(Tech consultant)
Oh I'm try to reboot the phone systems for a hotel in Hamilton.
The voice mail kicks in.

I'm thinking "Just eat your dinner man"

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Just as a way of keeping the temu crap down the list (at least) everyone needs to post something in their fave threads or discussions... Bump those threads Tnetters

Just report them, the posts want be here long if reported.