Spammers on Steepster

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AJ said

Too old: https://steepster.com/netplus-broadband

This account also started making fake tea listings:
https://steepster.com/teas/seo-reseller-india/83346-internet

…Aaand I just checked the “New Teas” section to see if there were others (forgive me, this gets a bit rambly and then I give up somewhere near the end):
https://steepster.com/teas/sahabatarena-dot-co-situs-agen-bola-terpercaya/83989-http-slash-slash-sahabatarena-dot-co-slash
https://steepster.com/bezita <- User creating listing
https://steepster.com/teas/informal-tea/83983-how-to-enable-imap-on-yahoo-mail-1-888-576-1584
https://steepster.com/hannah-baker <- User creating listing (was able to remove this one, but can’t remove their listing)

This set: hilariously they tried to hide it under ‘Tea Estate’ but clearly listing for homes:
https://steepster.com/teas/brigade-tea-estate/83981-brigade-utopia
https://steepster.com/teas/brigade-tea-estate/83805-brigade-woods
https://steepster.com/companies/brigade-tea-estate
https://steepster.com/mohan-verma <- The user creating the listings

https://steepster.com/teas/rasmicallgirl/83980-gurgaon-call-girl
https://steepster.com/companies/rasmicallgirl
https://steepster.com/Rasmicallgirl

https://steepster.com/teas/lipton/83974-lipton-tea <- Spam accout created a duplicate? random listing for Lipton
https://steepster.com/jerrysmithsmo <- Spammer

https://steepster.com/teas/royalty-roofing/83944-roofing-canton-oh
https://steepster.com/companies/royalty-roofing
https://steepster.com/royaltyroofs
https://steepster.com/royaltyroofing <- Has not one, but TWO spam acounts, lol

The Escort Service is back again making listings for profiles:
https://steepster.com/teas/independent-escorts-in-india/83938-elite-vip-models
https://steepster.com/teas/elite-vip-models/83937-india-escorts
https://steepster.com/companies/elite-vip-models
https://steepster.com/companies/independent-escorts-in-india
https://steepster.com/elitevipmodels

Actually, you know what, here:
https://steepster.com/search?q=escort
https://steepster.com/search?q=call+girl
Easier to linking all the individuals; then there’s all the accounts tied to each individual creation…

https://steepster.com/teas/de-lavish/83936-best-tea-towels-for-kitchen (I mean, I guess Steepster allows equipment review now…? But)
https://steepster.com/delavish

https://steepster.com/teas/mdw-technology-co-ltd/83917-mdw-technology-co-ltd
https://steepster.com/companies/mdw-technology-co-ltd
https://steepster.com/mdw2017 <- Creator of postings

https://steepster.com/teas/shriya-ayu-clinic/83896-http-slash-slash-www-dot-shriyaayuclinic-dot-com-slash
https://steepster.com/companies/shriya-ayu-clinic
https://steepster.com/shriyaayuclinic

https://steepster.com/teas/dphotofolio/83894-kid-maternity-newborn-photography-singapore-dphotofolio
https://steepster.com/companies/dphotofolio
https://steepster.com/dphotofolio

https://steepster.com/teas/elightway-solutions/83871-online-branding
https://steepster.com/companies/elightway-solutions
https://steepster.com/elightways

Got tedious searching up the individual accounts creating these listings, so here’s the rest:
https://steepster.com/teas/etechhelp/83850-http-slash-slash-www-dot-etechhelps-dot-com-slash
https://steepster.com/teas/avantguard-locksmith/83841-rotem-taashur
https://steepster.com/teas/caleb-mcgowan/83842-caleb-mcgowan
https://steepster.com/teas/caleb-mcgowan/83843-construction-business-developer
https://steepster.com/teas/jwpoker-dot-com/83831-poker-online-jwpoker-dot-com
https://steepster.com/teas/alldaygeneric/83830-buy-malegra-professional
https://steepster.com/teas/generic-tadalafil/83832-buy-tadarise-oral-jelly-online
https://steepster.com/teas/sahabatarena-dot-co-situs-agen-bola-terpercaya/83989-http-slash-slash-sahabatarena-dot-co-slash

There’s also this entire list, which I found while searching up one of the spammers:
https://steepster.com/friends/search?u=BEzita

Editedit: Welp, this is going to be a night of many posts from me. So I just realized our top-scoring tea right now:
https://steepster.com/teas/saigon-co-dot-op/74834-tra-o-long-thuong-hang-oolong-tea-high-grade
-Is just called “Oolong Tea”
-Isn’t from a tea company, by the looks of it
-Is being rated up/‘wishlisted’ by spambots (I deleted all the ones that were young enough):
https://steepster.com/hoaigiangshop
https://steepster.com/myphamedally

I’m calling tampering shenanigans. Maybe I start a lengthy email instead of pestering the forum with these.

Jason select said

Thanks for sending all those links! I just did a big clean up too, so hopefully that helps.

AJ said

You’re welcome; I tend to stumble on jackpots of spam right when I’m headed to bed. Did you see the list one page back as well? I’m not entirely sure what’s going on there, but there’s a few automotive and flooring companies rating teas. I guess they get an A for effort.

Jason select said

I did clear out the ones from the last page too.

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AJ said

Unfortunately the system glitched and I guess I deleted the bot’s account just as he was posting, because the post remains:
https://steepster.com/discuss/22807-food-product-suppliers-and-beverage
(it’s not a phantom, I posted a response in it to see if I could clear it, but my reply came up fine, so I deleted it).

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https://steepster.com/discuss/22030-mei-leaf-chat

This thread crosses multiple lines into ‘general discussion’ into ‘spam’ due to the behavior of 40% of the people in it. Besides the spam-like comments, this site was supposed to be non-patrician, and the fact that this thread is currently allowed just markets it as free advertisement for the said company the thread is about.

AJ said

I suggest that this thread be moved out of General Discussions and into Promotions and Companies (at least). It won’t do much since a lot of people just look at the front page, but you can at least filter it out.

Jason select said

Unfortunately, it looks like that’s not something I can currently edit in our admin. So it we would need to add that first…

mrmopar said

We need a tea vendor promotion topic. I agree that they come in and make their own topic with sales and a lot of times repetitive. Maybe a pinned discussion for vendor promotion therefore limiting the “New” sales topics.

AJ said

Ahwell, it was worth a shot.

Most companies are pretty good about creating one ‘home’ topic and posting their updates there, instead of starting a new thread each time. I think this is fine, the general problem comes with how Steepster’s set up to show recent posts from all topics on the front page (which is super convenient, but means you can’t avoid a plethora of topics in the Promotions forum). A single pinned sales topic might be for the best. There was a “Misc Sales” one floating around for a while.

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