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Had the same idea as you did.
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This appears to be a spambot, and he links to a website about black magic, which is pretty odd.



In other news, I've heard computer techies discussing spambot goals and techniques. Often, they'll post a seemingly-innocuous post with no commercial advertisements. Then, months or years later, they'll edit their posts long after anybody remembers them, to include a link to a commercial site.

Another technique I've heard them use is to link the spambot protection (e.g. Captcha graphics, etc.) to a separate site, like a dating site or a quiz site, and use those as quiz or IQ questions for real people. So they effectively link up a real person to answer forum registration captchas to bypass the "are you a human?" test.

Pretty devious.
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Spambot by the name of brendabub in the Dark Beyond posting about 7th heaven... Really seems odd that it is promoting a show so old... Has another post is for Mario Land 3D in Roleplaying Games with a banner add attached as a pic...
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Spambot by the name of najla in the cafe de nuit RP forum posted a topic named Fitted Kitchens South Wales and is the only post... Its signature is also a link...

Shame it seems they are not even trying to make them seem human anymore!
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Ohio FoS member report spam by...

never mind, it ends today ;)
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A member seems highly suspicious as possibly being a foul spambot construct... Search the posts by a member named sallyoo and you should see what I mean...

I believe her to be a minion of the darkness and demand that this thing be investigated so that we might give her a fair and honest... BURN THE HERITIC!!!

Sorry witch hunting impulse kicked in...

But seriously check this one out!!!
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zap!
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Well to be fair, she liked cats .......
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tarlyn wrote:Well to be fair, she liked cats .......
All the more reason. Cats are evil. Haven't you seen the latest QtR? :arijani:
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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:
tarlyn wrote:Well to be fair, she liked cats .......
All the more reason. Cats are evil. Haven't you seen the latest QtR? :arijani:
lol!
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Hunte appears to be posting stuff that's very barely relevant, drawing a keyword or two from the preceding posts and then posting that in a generic context while adding absolutely nothing to the discussion.

I am outraged - how dare they do my job for me! :evil:

...plus their sig line does have a spam link to a store.
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Possible spam in our play by post topic.... o.O'

http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/foru ... ile&u=2620

Keepin an eye out on that post for now....
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http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/foru ... 9&start=45

Pretty sure that last post is spam....
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