[SAC] Wiki Spammer - even more elaborate fake user

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:54:33AM +0200, Christian Willmes wrote:
>> Sure! Done.
>
> This is interesting, I just blocked user
> "AVG Phone Number xxxx xxx xxxx"
>
> How could such user get an account creation approved ?

It was not approved: on 15 January 2016 the Wiki was not protected by
user creation moderation [1].
Fatal error as we learned some hours later [2]...

Markus

[1] thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2016-January/thread.html#6263
[2] thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2016-January/thread.html#6272