Surge of Nonsense/Suspicious Threads Lately...

[Luke122]

Ready for this? This is just a quick sample of what I've found in the last 2 minutes of searching....


Hi,
i hope this is very nice fans.I have some information about the this fans. and some what idea about the fans.that why i am telling about this fans.



Hi all.

With Uncle Kevs moolah, I am looking to get a new PC (this one wont open MS Word...). Below is what I am looking at. Please give me some advice on whether you think they are alright (and if all the parts would all work together). In both builds the case, keyboard, mouse and speakers are fairly generic.

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Thanks in advance.


I am Christina.I am new to this site,but I’ve enjoyed posting in your forums.Welcome to the forum.I have to say all of you "Merry Christmas"."We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England.The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to the carolers on Christmas eve such as 'figgy puddings' that were very much like modern day Christmas Puddings.It is one of the few traditional holiday carols that makes mention of the New Year celebration.The song is often parodied.Thank you very much and Stay connected with me.



Hi
I am Christina.I am IT student. I am from San Jose, California.And my hobbies is to make friends,Traveling,watching beautiful scenes and capturing them...
There are many interesting things I have seen in the site.
I always look for informative things. So I hope this site will help me..



(feat. LeAnn Rimes)

It might be hard to be lovers
But its harder to be friends
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hello
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All of these users have 1-4 posts, they are all very similar in grammar and structure. While not "off topic" or blatant spam, they are all very unusual, and most of them have similar sigs too.. "webcam" or "ginseng".

The most obvious conclusion is a spambot... but yet, no blatant spam. Could we be a test bed for a new spam system, which is "learning" to blend in? Or is this simply the postings of some new user(s?) who are a little bit.. off.

What about the possibility of guerrilla marketing.. there was a company a while back that was creating user accounts on message boards, gaining trust, and then using that trust to market products. Jackmood mentions their software company.. perhaps that's worth investigating.

Are all these accounts from the same IP? If so, multiple user accounts is in violation of the rules, is it not?

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

[Airbozo]

We are currently watching them. The staff does know about these posters, but so far no TOS violations (except a siggy link and that has been removed and the owner notified).

christ11 and jonnydep have the same IP and we are checking into that as well..

[HackSore]

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England.

Huh, learn something new every day.

West country representin'!

[Trace]

I was thinking the same thing Luke.

[mDust]

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carolHow can a song pertaining to a religious holiday be secular?:think:
I've seen some of these and just figured English was not their native tongue...but now that they are all together, they do seem strange.

As for spambots fitting in, I'm the new and improved Spambot 6000.;)

[jdbnsn]

I vote with Monty Python...


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[Luke122]

The latest is the wonderous benefits and features of the PS3 Slim, from Colemancol.

Why?

[Ichbin]

I wouldn't be surprised if it were more "Guerilla Marketing" instead of a spambot. Sometimes it's cheaper and more effective to hire millions of workers at pennies per post to add a sense of realism to it.

It would be damn near impossible to effectively manage that sorta spam.

[Oneslowz28]

Worry not yon forum posters! For the hounds which sniffith the dreadful and vial spam hath been released.

[artoodeeto]

I think I said it in a different thread a minute ago, but worth mentioning again. I like spam. But only when it's fried and next to some eggs on my plate.

[Luke122]

Mmm.. spam and egg sandwiches!

[Bopher]

As for spambots fitting in, I'm the new and improved Spambot 6000.;)

It's Skynet v1.1!!! Run!!

Anyway, I was wondering about these too.

[x88x]

I've noticed a bunch of these cropping up too....and I'll admit a couple fooled me at first...*shakes fist at colemancol*... It is a strange new trend though...I've noticed most of them seem to be using the same sigs. I'm with Ichbin, I think it must be some sort of guerrilla marketting...though I can't imagine for what..which would seem to imply that it's failing rather drastically. I've also noticed that sometimes they'll recycle posts, or at least segments of them, specifically the:

I am new to this site,but I’ve enjoyed posting in your forums.Welcome to the forum.

[mDust]

I think their English interpretation skills are about as keen as their writing skills...they probably have no idea what they are doing here either. That makes it all the more fun!:D

[Moofaa]

Hi there. I new to forum. Would like to say thank you to all forum. Check out NewEgg.com, I get good deal there.

Welcome to forum!






lol

[artoodeeto]

Hi there. I new to forum. Would like to say thank you to all forum. Check out NewEgg.com, I get good deal there.

Welcome to forum!






lol

oh....the irony....I *do* hope that was a joke....

[Oneslowz28]

We have it all under a watchful eye guys. We are learning some valuable info for future spam blocking so please hold off on neg repping anyone just yet.

[artoodeeto]

oh I didn't -rep....I just thought it was rather amusing that one of those messages popped up in this thread.

[msmrx57]

If you look Moofaa has been a member since '07. I got a giggle out of it.

[billygoat333]

I think Moofaa was making fun of another post... and forgot to quote it. :D

[Luke122]

Or he was just making a parody. ;)

+rep to Moofa for the laugh.