The spambot report thread

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:44 am

Another bot, links in profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13137

Pending next post. I'm not 100% sure it's spam. -wardrich

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:55 pm

A copy-paste bot, registered as 'gulabgang'

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13140

copy from this EGA Trek thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5882
(from Black Mantis post, third paragraph)

then posting in this Prince of Persia thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5882
(obvious nonsense for the topic)

Status: Deleted user

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:54 am

A spammer selling kitchen appliances. Registered itself too.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13140

Status: Deleted post, deleted user. Also added word filters to hopefully stall these posts again.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:59 pm

Suspected copy/paste spam bot or troll: (2 postings only, so far)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13108

copy from forum here:
http://forum.cemeterydance.com/showthre ... r-Comments

paste in irrelevant forum for the question here:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20506

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The first posting from this user (in the same section here) has at least 12 copies on various forums around the net, and google remembers them.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... highlight=

https://www.google.se/search?sclient=ps ... e%22&btnG=

Status: Presumed spammer. PM'd user to confirm. Will ban account after 7 days if no response is received.

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:34 am

I'm thinking the same. I've sent them a PM. If I don't hear back after 7 days (since the posts are so far apart) I'm going to give them the boot. I've warned them about this in the PM as well.

Post by **Wally** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:11 am

Looks definitely like a bot.. Look at the email address, AIM address and name xD

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:19 am

Another suspect comment spammer, a non-specific praise, to be followed by links:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... thor=nawaz

(common with blogs - 'I like you post, and look at this link I found')

Post by **Wally** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:20 am

BANNED

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:19 am

Spam post (deleted), link in signature and profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13153
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13152

Status: Accounts removed

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:46 pm

http://dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12756

Thread rez, bot quoting from the first post.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:00 pm

Deleted that post, here's its profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13156

Status: User removed from system.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:39 pm

Here's one that got under the radar a while ago:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=12957

Had a post with links in sig (probably added later), removed.

This one has links in sig and profile, but maybe not a bot:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13109

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:36 am

I've just deleted a couple of irrelevant guest replies made in threads in the Get Games to Work forum. There are no links but the posts were obviously made by spambots. In each case, the "Subject" field of the posts was filled with random letters. No links though.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:36 am

Comment/blog spammer - guest account 'Kathrine'.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2010

Status: Guest post deleted

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:30 pm

Spambot:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13160

Copied part of a post in one thread and pasted it as a reply in another (in Get Games to Work). Reply now deleted.

Status: Account deleted

Post by **MrFlibble** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:09 pm

MrFlibble wrote:Spambot:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13160

Copied part of a post in one thread and pasted it as a reply in another (in Get Games to Work). Reply now deleted.

Another spambot doing the same:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13162

Status: Account deleted

Post by **wardrich** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:48 am

Interesting point that both Sello and Roddy (the two accounts in the above post) had the same status: "NAT".

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:05 pm

Link in profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13162

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:41 pm

Link is to a Tumblr page. I'll leave it for now.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:06 pm

Copy-paste bot, registered as holly14, necroing a long dead thread from 2011.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13165

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17310

the bot copy/paste-post is copied from the third post in the same thread.

(The guest reply by 'Patricksn' from 2014 also looks like a spam entry)

Status: Both spambot posts deleted. User deleted.