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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:44 am
by MrFlibble
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
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:55 pm
by Rwolf
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
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:54 am
by Rwolf
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:59 pm
by Rwolf
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:34 am
by wardrich
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:11 am
by Wally
Looks definitely like a bot.. Look at the email address, AIM address and name xD
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:19 am
by Rwolf
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')
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:20 am
by Wally
BANNED
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:19 am
by MrFlibble
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:46 pm
by Quadko
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:00 pm
by MrFlibble
Deleted that post, here's its profile:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13156
Status: User removed from system.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:39 pm
by MrFlibble
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
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:36 am
by MrFlibble
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:36 am
by Rwolf
Comment/blog spammer - guest account 'Kathrine'.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2010
Status: Guest post deleted
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:30 pm
by MrFlibble
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
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:09 pm
by MrFlibble
Another spambot doing the same:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13162
Status: Account deleted
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:48 am
by wardrich
Interesting point that both Sello and Roddy (the two accounts in the above post) had the same status: "NAT".
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:05 pm
by MrFlibble
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:41 pm
by wardrich
Link is to a Tumblr page. I'll leave it for now.
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:06 pm
by Rwolf
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.