The spambot report thread

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:58 am

Russian "PR company", guest acct. 'viplecet', wanting customers, but does not spam itself?
...you are just waiting for the flood, guys.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20578

Post by **wardrich** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:30 am

Looks like somebody took care of the post. I think a big part of the problem is that we're running an ancient version of phpbb. Not sure if newer versions have anything in place to block spammers, though.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:19 am

Well, serious spammers will bypass captcha's as well, but simpler ones may be stumped.
You could have a challenge-response query with a simple question to be answered, esp. for guests, like 'what is this website called?' but it is all a hurdle for genuine guests with limited English...so maybe it's not so bad yet.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:29 am

A couple more spam accounts:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13169
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13168

Respective posts deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:34 pm

Guest 'sibericanews', posting spam from russian news site, but cannot even write russian in readable form on the forum.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about20588.html

...IMO, the reply post also comes close to spam sometimes....

Status: Thread moved to trash heap, permanent deletion pending at administrators' consideration.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:35 am

Guest user 'AdrianKn' selling accounts at several services that are normally free.
Likely the ones offered are hacked existing accounts, to be used for malicious purposes.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20601

Status: Spam post deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:59 am

Guest spammer 'Breendairq' - presumably sells random products in a big heap:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20615

Looks like this post has been deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:02 am

Two registered scullery-maids spamming about their sundry appliances:

'geumjandii':
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13177
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20620

'lionhorest':
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13176
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20619

Status: Deleted both posts & accounts.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:15 am

A user with link in sig and profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13176

Posted this:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 972#123972

Not sure if spambot or spammer, 'cause he's addressing Quadko in his post. A new type of bot algorithm perhaps?

[Edit] Another one slipped under the radar a while ago:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13124

I'm leaving its posts for the admins to delete.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:26 am

Was thinking that looked rather spambot-ish; picking up a poster name seems in same ballpark as quoting threads.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:58 am

Yes, googling for the name & location resulted in some other similar posts
and forum accounts also made yesterday, so I'd guess it's just a budding spam-bot.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:49 am

A returning spambot 'shgensnesn' making multiple posts of nonsense.

I recognize the link in his profile, though last time it used another name.
I see it's prolific on other forums as well...
I guess it's selling some sort of football related coins, I don't want to know.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13177
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... shgensnesn

Status: Spam posts deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 5:33 am

Another (old 2011) copy-paste bot: 'liuvincent19'

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=10750

all it's copy-paste postings:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... uvincent19

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...and then the funniest copy-paste boy yet to follow-up: 'Segaboy'
copying a warning about spambots from/to the same thread...

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13178
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16994

I like Wally's reply :-)

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:09 am

Rwolf wrote:Another (old 2011) copy-paste bot: 'liuvincent19'

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=10750

all it's copy-paste postings:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... uvincent19

Well, that spambot hasn't bothered to update its profile, signature or posts with any links or anything for about four years now. If the admins want they can delete its account along with all posts with a single click so it's up to them to decide.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:12 am

Another scullery-maid bot registered as 'ElGeyem', flogging its pots&pans:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13180
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... or=ElGeyem

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:33 am

Oh, and the suspected bot 'peter_sv' that was seen previously seems to have re-registered with a new name, 'benty', making an almost-making-sense post, and still carrying the same link in its profile.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13181
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... thor=benty

This one is also seen freshly registered at another forum, promoting its website, which is said to host games for enhancing typing skills; almost relevant here.
The querying posts here look a bit strange though.

http://forum.boomzap.com/showthread.php?tid=2597

note the same sentence parts, 'awaiting your hopeful reply' etc. like a misdirected business mail.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:32 pm

Yes, benty's post was a facepalm. I say we ban anyone who's "never heard of RPG's" on general principle, spambot or not.

What gamer doesn't know what a Rocket Propelled Grenade is, anyway! So many WWII games out there!

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:46 pm

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Being raised in a private setting all my life I never heard of it.

I was taught to keep the peace even if it means sacrificing your own life.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:39 am

Another copy-paste bot, registered as 'Haleema'.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13184

copy from pseudocoder's posting in the middle of this thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... or++effect

paste to end of this thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20599

Status: Spam post deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:21 am

Guest spam from 'Lowtoodayroaste':

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20648

Status: Spam post deleted.

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