Ban accounts with IPs from china, russia, venzuela, indonesia, india, etc = home of the scammers.
WE need to get rid of these broken english speaking scammers!!!!!.
In addition to what "Jet Cash" said:
It isn't the country of origin, but the posters motivation and attitude that is the problem.
- There's also this:
19. Possible (or real) scams and Trust ratings are not moderated (to prevent moderation abuse).
The best solution is to just remove signatures completely. In most of the threads, no actual conversation even takes place. It's just people posting their few lines for their signature campaigns. Bitcointalk would be 100x better without signatures. Keep this place for real conversations, crypto lovers, and not 3rd world crypto scammers.
Not sure why you're mixing scam with spam on this topic, but "theymos" already ruled it out (your suggestion):
I have mostly ruled out:
- Removing signatures or sig ads globally.