Spammers

[Gary Childress]

Looks like Olivia101 might be a spammer. She quoted my post here and tacked on a questionable link in very small writing within the quote she created of my OP. The post is below.


viewtopic.php?p=740055&sid=f4c64ea3aa3f ... 67#p740055

[accelafine]

I'm pretty sure that's a bot. Their writing is quite distinctive albeit correct (perhaps TOO correct?)

[Gary Childress]

I'm pretty sure that's a bot. Their writing is quite distinctive albeit correct (perhaps TOO correct?)

Yes. That occurred to me too. But I felt erring on the side of human might be better than calling her a bot and it turning out that she isn't.

[RickLewis]

Thanks Gary for the heads up. Yes, absolutely classic behaviour from one of the new AI driven bots. The posting is well written, relevant and believable in order to slip past our defences, and then once the bot is a full member of the forum each new post has a spam link in tiny letters somewhere in it. This one only had three postings so far. Another one I've just spotted called jesse99 has seventeen.

[RickLewis]

Incidentally, these bots can be very hard to spot. I just deleted one that signed up for the forum in January 2023 and then did nothing until recently, the it started to post very plausible posts - often quoting long-established forum members but adding small, hard to spot links in white in the middle of their postings. People then requoted the spammer, unwittingly repeating the spam links. This makes it hard to eliminate them, which draws in yet more bots.

[Gary Childress]

It's probably going to take the whole forum to keep tabs on these bots. I suggest everyone keep an eye out for spam posts.

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[henry quirk]

spencerbuyshouses

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26923

Go get 'em, Rick.

[henry quirk]

drapekings

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26916

[henry quirk]

datachennai45

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26917

[henry quirk]

hypnosishamburg

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26918

[henry quirk]

Shamlatech

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26919

[henry quirk]

alisonsummit1

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26907

[henry quirk]

premiumgrassbladesca

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26899

[henry quirk]

noelj

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26895


There's more, but I got no time to get to all of 'em.

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