Spam

Sorry, I’ve been moving house. My attention has been on that rather than spam detection/deletion. I did warn ROOL, twice, but…

The two posts and posters have been dealt with.

New user:Игра Престолов spamming!

Didn’t know the forum permitted inline video……?

Why do spammers post non English rubbish to obviously English forums?

I doubt they care. If a spammer / spam bot is posting something that’s obviously off-topic for the site in question, they’re probably more interested in getting traffic from search engines (either to boost the rank of a linked website, or to guide people towards the linked website), rather than trying to get traffic from the native audience for the site.

I was rather amused by a spam thread from this morning about a “free” website auto-clicker tool (spammers advertising tools for spammers!), where the installation instructions mentioned using a key generator to generate a license key – the software clearly wasn’t meant to be free. I guess there must have been some “added extras” (viruses) in the installer so that whoever was behind the spam is able to reap some reward from it.

Long story short, if someone thinks there’s a way they can make money by spamming messages, they’ll do it, even if it seems ridiculous to most people who see the messages. With automated bots, trading of website/email lists, etc., the unusual becomes the usual.

Three more just appeared in General mostly selling Yahoo customer support services plus one in Arabic.

Spam from Know Your Doctor…I already know ;-)

New spam is quite amusing to read…

WinRAR Crack’s selling point appears to be that it “ will allow an individual to save a whole lot space on the hard disk credited to compressing the data files in an inferior archive”. Huh? I’m guessing this is a bad translate and they meant “smaller” instead of “inferior”, but it made me smile all the same.

Same person is spamming with a Win7 ISO. Win7? Isn’t that the one that came after Vista? Sheesh! But hey, I need to go download it right away because… Among Windows, 7’s new features are innovations in contact and handwriting popularity, support for electronic hard disks, increased performance on multi-core processors, improved shoe performance.
I’m glad it works with electronic harddiscs. Those groove and stylus things had really lousy seek times. And the improved shoe performance is extremely desirable – it’ll be able to reboot itself, right?

:-)

I’ll get my coat…

I’ll get my coat…

You’ll get blood on it – we’ve all shot you, that’s all including my wife.
Fortunately the groans were unheard: Deep Purple In Concert, and I never play DP at low volume. Hearing bought the farm years ago, probably around the “Burn” tour appearance at The Coventry Theatre(RIP)

You’ll get blood on it – we’ve all shot you, that’s all including my wife.

Eh? All? Since when did you become Republicans?!?

“He needed shooting” :)

Anyone believe in coincidence?

The item over on General with a posting user name of Helenwang. It seemed wonderfully off topic so I put that username into Google and the first link points at this abstract

and the fourth of the five contributing authors is named…

My apologies. I don’t know how I missed that one, but it’s gone now.

I mulled it over for a while and decided that the most likely answer was that it was a test post using content from elsewhere, but the author didn’t know what anyone here was talking about¹ so a technical style offering would probably get through.

¹ With all the Aldershot stuff not understanding is probably perfectly normal.

IMHO a not so obvious spam post by Roel Wagenaar

EDIT: in error – missed the context :-(

IMHO a not so obvious spam post

I disagree, Roel was following on the general topic and the use of Gimp had been raised by Steve Reville just a bit earlier.

Now the “contribution” in this forum today is definitely spam and the same user ID with similar content shows up in a simple google search elsewhere on the web so it’s time to toast user 3478’s nuts.

And user 3479. I feel a med spam sequence coming.

They shall not succeed.

Users 3480 & 3481 need to get fried, too.

I have Google Alerts set up from a few years ago for RISC OS topics. They don’t generally result in very much – but this morning I did one of my very rare log-ins to Google, and there were two from the last few days.

Both featuring spam posts on this forum. :|

I have Google Alerts set up from a few years ago for RISC OS topics. They don’t generally result in very much – but this morning I did one of my very rare log-ins to Google, and there were two from the last few days.

Both featuring spam posts on this forum. :|

If this connection could be automated to auto-delete, it’d save Dave some effort!

If this connection could be automated to auto-delete, it’d save Dave some effort!

When you say this connection are you meaning something here on the forum?
What were you thinking?
Listing SPAM:USER:1551 and the account disappears along with all posted content?

When you say this connection

I was meaning the connection between what is spam and what Vince finds on his Google Alerts.

If this association is reliable and reproducible, it might be potentially useful as a spam-identifying tool: But I was being tongue-in-cheek! Is this still allowed?

I was being tongue-in-cheek! Is this still allowed?

Dunno, check the user ID I used.

Today’s incomprehensible gibberish…

“Your Synoptic Boost needs to be done with close attention being paid to Synoptic Boost as well as Synoptic Boost.”

You know, I’ve actually had discussions with management that went like that. Replace “synoptic boost” with any number of phrases managers like to use (performance levels, report filing, group synergy…) and you’ll be there.

The users are 1733 and 1734.

The users are 1733 and 1734.

OK, now that’s just unnecessarily confusing.

The forum shows them as users 3483 & 3484, but then when you click on their name the URL shows IDs 1733 & 1734. Some kind of horrible disconnect between the forum account IDs and the hub account IDs, I’m guessing.

I’d imagine Dave and the other moderators will check things before they hit the delete button, but it would probably be simpler & safer if people were to link to their “profile” pages rather than listing the IDs directly?

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/users/1734
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/users/1733