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Samapico - Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:06 am
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Topic split from spam

LMAO

nice

bots replying to themselves under another name

that's new... and somewhat original.

and lol @ location:
http://forums.minegoboom.com/profile.php?mode=signup&pony=pretty

Mine GO BOOM - Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:29 am
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Sadly, they were not bots, they were real people. Went nice and slow, loaded images, browsed around the site a bit, and made the post. Then his friend at the same ISP went directly to the link and made the username. He even attempted to log in with his new password incorrectly once. When he went to make his post, he even previewed it before posting (I assume to make sure the link would work?).

Can't stop people like that... Google shows them having thousands of posts elsewhere.

Samapico - Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:15 pm
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How about humanized bot behavior?

Bak - Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:54 pm
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are their ISPs in china/india?

make a simple english word puzzle to register

Maverick - Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:42 pm
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Or just a simple Continuum-related question (which will also stop future english spammers)

blue monday - Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:24 pm
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They get paid to do this?

Samapico - Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:42 pm
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Probably... always had a hard time figuring out spam-economics

Dr Brain - Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:29 pm
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Or just do nothing to make registration difficult and continue to delete the posts when they show up. No sense making it hard for actual users to post.

Samapico - Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:09 pm
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Have a flash game of Tetris load, and you must get at least 1000 points to register!

Have a livechat module thingy, and the system must detect someone moving on the user's webcam!

Have 1000 random words written all over the registration page, and the user has to decypher a code through it all, DavinciCode-style!

Initrd.gz - Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:36 pm
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LOL

I don't have a webcam so Im safe

Bak - Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:15 am
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Samapico wrote:

Probably... always had a hard time figuring out spam-economics

good read: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf

Samapico - Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:02 am
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Bak wrote:

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good read: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf

Spam for science

Samapico - Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:07 am
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Samapico wrote:

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Spam for science

Really interesting... I love how they explain how they hijacked spammers to replace them with their own less-harmful spam.