Blocked user https://drupal.org/user/1871844 for contact form spam

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drucvalka (https://drupal.org/user/1883352) has sent you a message via your  
contact form (https://drupal.org/user/xxx/contact) at drupal.org.

If you don't want to receive such e-mails, you can change your settings at  
https://drupal.org/user/xxx.

Message:

Hi,
We are looking for a software engineer with Drupal experience. This is a long  
term full-time remote position.
Among other projects, we are building an online crowdfunding marketplace for  
open source software.

Please click on the following link to read the full description:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19aCWX_YA0oYNagBRtpcs1xFM-73vdFte_xsc7Outj0g/edit

Based on your contributions to Drupal.org, we though this offer might  
interest you. If not, we apologize for any inconveniences caused.

Best Regards,
Boian Mihailov

Seems like they are phishing for developer time rather than anything sinister.

From the referenced Google Doc was the reference back to this blocked user.

Our company (cvalka) is a small young company working on the following two projects at the moment:

    Consultation marketplace. The landing page is available at http://www.edviso.com
    Crowdfunding marketplace for software. No landing page yet

Update: At least 15 other users have gone to the URL to look.

yep... likely created the new account when they discovered the old one was blocked. Blocked https://drupal.org/user/1883352 as well.

Contacted me today as well:
http://drupal.org/user/1746986

I think that you would need to give an example of what the user posted, and as a side-note, this users doesn't appear to be related to the same company as the above two users (via his profile page).

@alan I agree a sample of the email would be good, but not related? They use the same given name-- which doesn't seem very common on drupal.org.Also, they have a post in the paid services forum that is very similar to the email.

@neochief - can you paste the email or summarize it?

Sure, here it is:

Hi,
We are looking for a software engineer with Drupal experience. This is a long term full-time remote position.
Among other projects, we are building an online crowdfunding marketplace for open source software.

Please click on the following link to read the full description:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19aCWX_YA0oYNagBRtpcs1xFM-73vdFte_xsc7Outj0g/edit

Based on your contributions to Drupal.org, we though this offer might interest you. If not, we apologize for any inconveniences caused.

Best Regards,
Boian Mihailov

Mmm.. it looks like either blatant abuse or complete nativity on his part.

@neochief I wasn't sure if the webmasters had access to the logs or not, thus the request for a bit of a follow up :)

I'm about ready to block every account that has anything to do with 'cvalka'. Sent the following email first though:

Hi boian.mihailov,

I am contacting you regarding your user account (http://drupal.org/user/1746986) on drupal.org which has been used to send repeated email spam via other users' drupal.org contact forms resulting in multiple complaints. See http://drupal.org/node/1507772 for more information. Several accounts have already been blocked. Please stop sending such requests to drupal.org users via their contact form. Feel free to post your job opportunities in drupal.org "Paid Drupal services" forum.

Continued abuse of the drupal.org contact form will result in all accounts for anything to do with 'cvalka' being permanently blocked (including applicable IP addresses).

See http://drupal.org/node/1507772 for more information.

This e-mail is being sent as a warning in the hopes that you'll respect our community and change your behavior. If you continue to post in this fashion we'll have no choice but to ban you from the site.

Please comment on the above linked webmaster's issue if you have any questions.

WorldFallz
drupal.org site maintainer

Leaving the issue open in case the user wants to follow-up.

I personally apologize to everyone feeling abused by that ad. I thought of this as opportunity not spam.

I am sorry.

unsolicited 'opportunities' are often considered spam, lol. Thanks for you cooperation.

Ok, i've just received YET ANOTHER one of these:

Hi,
 
I think you might be interested in working with us.
 
We are looking for a software engineer with Drupal experience. This is a long term full-time remote position.
Among other projects, we are building an online crowdfunding marketplace for software.
 
Write back if you are interested or check https://www.cvalka.com/jobs/software-engineer
 
Based on your experience, I though this offer might interest you. If not, I apologize for any inconveniences caused.
 
Best Regards,
Antuan Shakhin
Cvalka

How many chances are reasonable before a block?

You got two from the same user? IMO that crosses the threshold. They should at least be able to accoutn for their spam.

This is from a different user, it looks like, but it appears to be from the same /company/. Not sure how to handle that.

We could block all accounts from that company, just for the fun of doing so. I think it would be an opportunity for them to spam elsewhere...

no follow-ups, so I guess "fixed"?