[Solved] Pedo alert

[neljan]

Hey,

Theres some guy who keeps registering with my forum and posting hardcore porn (the site is a gaming forum and so it's members are mostly young), so I'm wondering if theres any action I can take? like reporting his IP to his ISP or other organisation? (if I could press charges I would).

He keeps somehow obtaining a new IP (I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to all that) to evade an IP ban, if anyone has any advice on how to permanently block him or have him banned from the web I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

[Allan]

Do a WHOIS search on one of his IP's and report him to the ISP and the FBI (they will be interested if it is pedophelia).

[neljan]

Thanks.

Well the porn isn't child porn (thank god) but it's porn in a predominently children user based forum, so I don't know if the FBI would be interested.

[Aegis]

This is not expert advice, but go to the FBI anyway, from that standpoint:  you are concerned and trying to protect your site's audience of mostly younger people from the activities of this person.  If there is no direct case, ask them for suggestions / options.  You might try your local law enforcement.  They probably won't get directly involved, but they may be able to suggest a course of action or more resources.  (This very much depends on your standing with the local authorities, and your opinion of them.)

[kpac]

Do a WHOIS search on one of his IP's and report him to the ISP

This isn't actually possible. You give the ISP (or IP preferably, as they can do a traceroute) to the FBI or law enforcement and they then contact the ISP.

[Allan]

It's not only possible, I've done it several times.

[Zylstra]

Also, make sure you can determine IF this is an actual person, and not a spammer computer.

Once you do a WHOIS Report, if the WHOIS shows that the IP Address belongs to someone in the USA, call THEIR Internet Service Provider, and tell them about it. Make sure you have as many details as possible, including any name that you know of, their IP, and their hostname if you have it. Many people have Dynamic IP Addresses and can not be easily tracked down, even by their own ISP.

If you determine that a computer is giving you this kind of SPAM, look into Post Moderation (where users under a certain amount of posts, say under 5 posts, must have their posts verified by a human moderator before being posted)

Until the issue can be cleared, you might even look at disabling the ability to upload attachments (if they are uploading it to your server).

Also check out Akismet for computer spammers: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=544

If you think its an acutal person, and the FBI isn't doing anything, call (or visit) your local police station (do NOT call 911, call their buisness line).

[patio]

Just curious...
But if you run this Forum why haven't you banned him and his IP address ? ?

[Aegis]

The original poster states that this person keeps obtaining new IP addresses.  Dialup?  Proxy servers?

[Helpmeh]

This is one sick ****! Who would go out of their way to use proxies JUST to post porn on a children's forum?!!??!!?

Try making a list of all the IP addresses, if they have a dynamic IP the more IPs sent to the ISP tue better. Maybe you can block the website that the sicko hotlinks the images from. I'm not quite sure how though...

[Aegis]

The best suggestion for now has been to not allow attachments to be made.

[camerongray]

The best suggestion for now has been to not allow attachments to be made.

Or what about making attachments require approval - Might take alot of work but will stop this problem.

[Helpmeh]

Do the sicko UPLOAD or HOTLINK?

[Zylstra]

Once again, is it a real person?
Bots (even ones that change IP address and appear to change countries) are easy to take care of.

[rthompson80819]

I have got to think that the police, and the FBI since most of the traffic is proably interstate, would be very interested in tracking down whoever is posting the porn.  And they have experts who specialize is tracking down this stuff.