Thank you for reporting the spam attack - The team is working on the issue

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Hi folks. The Car Talk Community has been attacked by spammers. We first found out about it from member reports. We’re holding off on deleting the spam one post at a time for now, but we’ll take that step soon if a batch delete is not practical. Please be patient. Thanks

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@GorehamJ Thanks for posting this. And thanks to all who flagged the issue.

We are working on it currently. The bots are just getting more savvy day by day…

Again, thanks for flagging everyone!

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Looks like you were successful!

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Thanks John and Julie. It’s easy to see real posts now.

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Hi all,

Thank you again for your help identifying and flagging the issue. It was not pretty, but we handled it. The bots started hitting the site right around 12am pacific standard time. They had hours to do their thing before we were even awake… jerks. They’d also figured out how to verify their new accounts, which is a new thing they’ve not been able to do before.

Thanks to you all for flagging and our awesome tech team for handling this.

Very thankful for you all.

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