The spambot report thread

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:10 pm

RetroDosGames wrote:
CPT Worm wrote:http://youtu.be/3ishbTwXf1g?t=3m19s
Why is that post even here?

It was in response to a comment earlier in this thread.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:27 am

Another spammer, registered as ElGeyem (I think I saw that one before)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13180

Selling stuff so horrible, all the treehuggers cried out in rage...or something.
(I guess it was just a generic exasperation with spammers.)

Post by **CPT Worm** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:14 am

RetroDosGames wrote:
CPT Worm wrote:http://youtu.be/3ishbTwXf1g?t=3m19s
Why is that post even here?

I'm like "Dirty" Harry Callahan, and spam posts are punks.
And I dealt with them.

I thought that was implied....

Post by **CPT Worm** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:19 am

Rwolf wrote:Another spammer, registered as ElGeyem (I think I saw that one before)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13180

Selling stuff so horrible, all the treehuggers cried out in rage...or something.
(I guess it was just a generic exasperation with spammers.)

https://youtu.be/Z9PBtnnPmLQ?t=47s

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:39 am

Jesus Christ!hehe

O-well, I think you just ruined my mother's sleep hehe

She was sleeping peacefully then the ice shatterred sound came on

O-well, probably made her happy.

She is used to me being a boring person.

She now probably thinks I watch porno hehe

Post by **Wally** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:16 am

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:51 am

Another copy-paste bot, calling itself 'Draco02'.
It's signature has been used before: 'DaRe DaViL', not sure if the name was the same.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13206

copy from dogbreath's last post in this thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... e+methinks

paste in this necro:ed thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=241

Status: Spam post deleted.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:47 am

Rwolf wrote:copy from dogbreath's last post in this thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... e+methinks

BTW Rwolf, you can link to individual posts in threads. There's a small icon in the header that looks like a white page (orange if the message is tagged as unread), and the text "Posted: <date>" is right next to it. This icon is actually the link to the post. You can right-click it and copy the link, then paste it here.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:50 pm

Aha, thanks - always something new to learn!

RetroDosGames · Post by **RetroDosGames** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:19 am

SpawnMax is not a bot, but somewhat dubios....
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/search.ph ... r=SpawnMax

Another bot post:
http://dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20232

Post by **MrFlibble** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:34 pm

RetroDosGames wrote:Another bot post:
http://dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20232

This guy is advertising some MMORPG (I think). The admins should decide if this should be removed or not (game-related links are tolerated to an extent).

RetroDosGames · Post by **RetroDosGames** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:45 pm

MrFlibble wrote:
RetroDosGames wrote:Another bot post:
http://dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20232
This guy is advertising some MMORPG (I think). The admins should decide if this should be removed or not (game-related links are tolerated to an extent).

It's a error 404

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:55 pm

It seems they have another server now, I added a post about that to the thread.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:33 am

Two bots:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13210
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13209

Both made posts which are now deleted, but also have links in profile.

Post by **CPT Worm** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:15 pm

MrFlibble wrote:Two bots:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13210
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13209

Both made posts which are now deleted, but also have links in profile.

Took care of it. ...WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:48 am

A copy-paste bot, registered as 'Babblu', with a signature 'FSL':
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13209

copy a paragraph from 'nickherc':s post:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 390#121390

paste to:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 851#124851

Status: Spam post deleted.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:37 am

Nonsense-text spam, with links embedded posted by registered bot 'fifajuly111'

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13210

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 864#124864

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:44 am

Two similarly named spam-bots registered to post the same spam message in two threads.

'pasban66'
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13212
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 865#124865

'pasban729'
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13213
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 866#124866

Status: Spam posts deleted.

Both are using a string 'FARASAT' as a sig.
I wonder if those signatures are something relevant to tracking them?
Both Pasban & Farasat seems to be names/words common on Pakistani websites.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:11 pm

Another spam bot, registered as 'jesba', considerately posting in the off-topic forum.

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13211
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 870#124870

Status: Spam post deleted.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:04 pm

Rwolf wrote:I wonder if those signatures are something relevant to tracking them?
Both Pasban & Farasat seems to be names/words common on Pakistani websites.

I think that whatever bots leave in as their signature are just placeholders.

Their strategy (judging by the few ones which got under the radar before) is to post some random stuff, and after a while edit their profile and posts, adding links to their profile page and signature.

The trick is that at least some forum engines do not retroactively add a signature to old posts if a user started without anything in their signature. Signature content only gets updated in those posts which already have it. So it makes sense to put something into the signature and then replace it with links after a while.

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