Blocked bot account still generating chat log spam (ChristophNaumova33)
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Dove Restless
I am experiencing ongoing spam from the account ChristophNaumova33, which appears to be a bot. The account is already blocked on my end, however I am still receiving approximately 40 daily spam attempts.
While the block prevents messages from being displayed, the system still logs each attempt (including ad-hoc conference/group invite attempts). This is flooding my chat history and impacting my ability to use chat logs for Second Life business purposes.
Key issues:
Account is blocked but spam attempts continue daily
Block does not prevent conference/group invite attempts being logged
Chat logs are being heavily spammed despite no visible messages
Ongoing impact on usability of chat history due to volume of entries
The bot was originally encountered within the Fifty Linden Friday group. After continued spam, I asked in the group whether others were experiencing the same issue, and several users confirmed they were also being targeted but had successfully blocked the account. I am unsure why blocking is not fully preventing the same behaviour in my case.
I have reported this issue daily, but the account remains active and the behaviour continues.
Reference evidence:
Requesting investigation and mitigation of blocked-user invite/logging behaviour.
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Ziel Omizu
I'm having the same problem, and the most annoying issue of it is that - even though the account(s) are blocked - every time it tries to open conferences, it kicks my text input back to nearby chat. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating, whether it's trying to talk to anyone in IMs, OR trying to write in a notecard, in my inventory folders, use the build menu, etc.
I'm using Alchemy viewer and I'm not sure if that makes a difference - if this a third party viewer problem, or a base issue with how SL handles conversation attempts, considering Alchemy uses the vast majority of the same functions the default viewer does.
I posted the same comment above to the Git - but I figure I weigh in here, see if anyone else is having the "kicked back to nearby" issue.
Dove Restless
Ziel Omizu is it the same bot?
Dove Restless
And again now its spamming me right now... i have reported it but still its going https://gyazo.com/5dfe49364c20245d0867c11b2238105f
Dove Restless
i have my conversation log open with his first 5 letters to his name on the search and can see this bot is actively spamming me every 5 minutes.... https://gyazo.com/40b00cd25eb41063c11d3b0735311147
Dove Restless
It spams my conference log at least 3 times a day the account has been banned and it instantly made a new account ChristophNaumova36 can this not be IP banned? Otherwise it will keep going
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Dove Restless
Jellyfish It just keeps making a new account and constantly spamming at least 3 times a day i get this and i can't stop it even if it is blocked. It is now a different number on the same name for a new account
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Jellyfish
Yikes! That's annoying. I tracked your issue here: https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5809
Hopefully the dev team will get to looking at this soon.