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We are being spammed by mojufgvghs
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Old 09-21-2012, 08:55 AM   #21
Nanci
But there were links embedded.
 
Old 09-21-2012, 09:01 AM   #22
Chip
Ah. I still wouldn't suspect they make many sales that way. Certainly doesn't look legit.
 
Old 09-21-2012, 09:02 AM   #23
Nanci
I liked the one with the story about the hermit crab.
 
Old 09-21-2012, 11:46 AM   #24
Rich Z
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I don't understand this type of spam. It wasn't even advertisements as much as a series of words and sentences. A couple of them almost told a story.
Spam is mostly now a form of cyber warfare. The countries originating most of the spam are simply trying to disrupt USA websites of all types. And I'm sure that in some instances people who have a chip on their shoulder about a site can initiate this sort of activity in some fashion. Sort of a mini denial of service attack.

The reason you haven't seen much spam here in the past is because I was auditing all new registrations before they would be allowed to post on this site. I had to curtail this when Connie and I went away for a week to a place with very limited internet access. When we got back, it didn't appear to be much of a problem with spammers on this site (on the other hand, FaunaClassifieds is getting at least 50 spammers every day), so I decided to leave it as it is and see how it goes. If it gets to be a problem, then I will resume the new registration audits again.
 
Old 09-21-2012, 07:54 PM   #25
Pugsley
Thanks Rich! I see a Hamiltion11 was also banned, another spammer? I haven't been on since last night, so he must have started after I logged off.
 
Old 09-22-2012, 12:04 AM   #26
cornsnakeforsale_com
That kind of spam is intended to boost a site's "SEO rankings". It doesn't really work much these days, but it used to. It's completely automated and wasn't done very well. Lots of vbulletin forums are big targets, some are not. There are some techniques to block this sort of thing, but it's never 100%. I've been impressed at how clean this site is.
 

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