Ban usernames? They just make more accounts.
Ban IPs? They just use proxies.
Add "captcha" verification on account creation? Most bots can beat a lot of those now.
They'll move on to somewhere else soon enough.
SlickZeroHouston, TexasMember, Sous ChefPosts: 2,870
Persistent little botstards they are.
Braydon_SFXMember, Sous Chef, Bowlboy SidekickPosts: 9,273
@jamie_c said:
I always have to wonder what the benefit of such non-sense is to those who post it?!
They post hundreds of thousands of messages on tens of thousands of forums. I'm betting at least 50% of the people who saw the spam visited the URL out of curiosity. Even if 0.1% of those who do that register, it was all worth their while.
If it's an option, I'd recommend making new members require verification. In my experience once that happens a bot will move on fairly quickly, and you should be able to disable the verification requirement again within a few hours.
jamie_c
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Not hacked, just a spam bot registering accounts and posting spam.
Yeah, he got us. I've been clicking buttons for about 20 minutes now. Just a little bit longer and it should be gone.
Same. Should be cleaned up in just a few.
Thanks for catching that ip, @Tatiang. Made things a lot easier.
Seems like it's back again...
Spam like this is very difficult to counter.
Ban usernames? They just make more accounts.
Ban IPs? They just use proxies.
Add "captcha" verification on account creation? Most bots can beat a lot of those now.
They'll move on to somewhere else soon enough.
Persistent little botstards they are.
I see what you did there.
I always have to wonder what the benefit of such non-sense is to those who post it?!
They post hundreds of thousands of messages on tens of thousands of forums. I'm betting at least 50% of the people who saw the spam visited the URL out of curiosity. Even if 0.1% of those who do that register, it was all worth their while.
If it's an option, I'd recommend making new members require verification. In my experience once that happens a bot will move on fairly quickly, and you should be able to disable the verification requirement again within a few hours.
So the end result is an attempt at ad income from the visited site?
Hehe. It looks easy, but it's not! :P
Either ad income or often the site advertises a crappy browser game that sells IAP.
As you can tell I'm not one of the 50% that follow the link... lol.
What a giant waste of time it seems.
It's the same principle as all those marketing leaflets that fill up your mailbox, except even more intrusive
It works, else they wouldn't do it 
@Armelline, it must... crazy though if you ask me.
bimbi367 is now doing it :P Noooooo
I thought my internet language had turned chinese paha
And someone block these users somehow paha