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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:38 am
by Rwolf
Guest spammer 'Manuelkr' gives us his feedback:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 883#124883
Status: Spam post deleted.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 5:03 am
by MrFlibble
A couple of very enthusiastic spambots, each made several posts (now deleted):
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13218
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13219
Both bots seem to have copied parts of some news(paper) article(s) to use as their post content, and inserted links in signature, profile and in some cases post text.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 8:07 am
by Rwolf
The irony empire strikes back...a copy-paste bot registered as 'axton' posting suggestions of IP-banning spammers...in a ten year old thread.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... thor=axton
The copy is the last paragraph from Dogbreath's post in the same thread, re-pasted as his own.
placeholder tag: Nawaz.
Status: Deleted post & user.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:06 pm
by wardrich
It almost seems intentional now.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:05 pm
by Rwolf
Guest comment spammer 'KailinSl' finds everything interesting:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20765
Status: Spam post deleted.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:56 am
by Rwolf
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:19 pm
by Rwolf
Random poetry bot 'clarcks', can't make it's own random poetry, but needs to copy others.
(source from OP in same thread)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13224
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 988#124988
Status: Spam post deleted.
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:58 am
by Rwolf
copy-paste registered bot: 'reeclarck'
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13229
copy a part of user aderack's post, re-paste as his own in the same thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... =reeclarck
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:51 am
by MrFlibble
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:42 pm
by Rwolf
Hmm...yes I almost reported that one, but I thought I'd give it a chance to prove itself human. Name & signature tag looks fishy, (esp. the name occurs in several spam posts outside of this forum) possible ad links could be placed invisibly in future editing of quoted links even...but would it create revenue? Maybe google-bots follow such things.
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:36 pm
by MrFlibble
Rwolf wrote:possible ad links could be placed invisibly in future editing of quoted links even...but would it create revenue? Maybe google-bots follow such things.
It is my understanding that every link a spambot makes is for SEO purposes, so yes, they're intended for crawlers.
I think we should just keep tabs on this post and if/when the links are edited in, delete it.
BTW, a couple of spam bots/posters got under the radar here in the past exactly the same way. The messages they posted were vaguely relevant and thus not deleted immediately. Sometime later when checking some old threads it would turn out that links appeared in such posts and profile signatures.
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:35 pm
by Cmaza
Can't remember if I've already asked this before or not (I did search up my old posts using the search feature but couldn't find anything along the lines of), but, are the spambots that end up posting here being reported to
SFS? Could be worth doing, if this isn't already being done.
The look-up feature could also be useful to integrate here, if that isn't already being done, and if there isn't any objection to a bit of quick coding being done onto the registration page here.
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:30 pm
by Rwolf
Registered spammer 'skylione' managed to post 4 quick spams for his 'tinfoilhat stuff' in various forums:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13230
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:39 am
by MrFlibble
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:42 pm
by MrFlibble
Suspicious:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13236
Link in signature but something game-related?
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 7:36 am
by Rwolf
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 7:11 pm
by CPT Worm
I took care of it,
MOTHER. GAWD
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:09 pm
by wardrich
CPT Worm wrote:
I took care of it,
MOTHER. GAWD
<img src="
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/ori ... kinner.png" width="300px">
Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 12:21 am
by Rwolf
http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/d/8456-1/orly.gif
(Spam gone, still see the 'lionhorest' account, with links.)
edit: maybe you want to keep it as a trained pet spammer, and just divert all it's postings to /dev/null?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:39 am
by Rwolf
Registered copy-paste spam bot 'wwqmicky' regurgitated a random sentence.
profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13242
copy from Chilly Willy's post:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 827#123827
paste here:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 279#125279
I think the tagline 'raza' has appeared here before too, don't recognize the name though.
