# I came across a suspicious "SDMB" site **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 26, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759 "2018-06-26T11:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/1 "2018-06-26T11:46:43Z")
I actually just wanted to let someone know and give them the address but I didn’t know who or how so I started this thread (I know how to report posts etc., but not how to make a general report). The website is: [https://boards.academicpursuits.us/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=15](https://boards.academicpursuits.us/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=15) Not sure how I got there or why… I don’t even know if the site is a problem. I haven’t thought about it. I just wanted to pass the info along. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/2 "2018-06-26T12:04:43Z")
Those things come up every once in a while. I think they’re machine generated or something, and I’m not sure what the real board can do about them, if anything. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/3 "2018-06-26T14:21:21Z")
Thanks! I really like that site. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/4 "2018-06-26T14:47:23Z")
It’s fitting that the first thread on that site’s ATMB is ‘Another fake SD mirror.’ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/5 "2018-06-26T14:53:25Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > It’s fitting that the first thread on that site’s ATMB is ‘Another fake SD mirror.’ And that’s their clone of [a previous time somebody reported them here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=855248). ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/6 "2018-06-26T14:59:44Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Thanks! > I really like that site. Yeah–edifying name, too: “Academic Pursuits.” It’s clearly a much more distinguished arena for lofty discussion than this low-brow den of idle chatter here. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/7 "2018-06-26T15:23:50Z")
I clicked into one of the threads and got a message that said, “The administrator has banned your IP address.” I clicked on the Register link (I had no intention of registering) and got an agreement that I okayed, and then clicked \*next \*and got an unformatted page with Cyrillic writing at the top and lots of links with erotic and scatalogical names. Russian bots, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/8 "2018-06-26T15:39:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > And that’s their clone of [a previous time somebody reported them here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=855248). And since it popped into my brain: Send in the Clones [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DOv5Q35Ef_M/hqdefault.jpg "Battle Circus - Send in the Clones") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOv5Q35Ef_M) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/9 "2018-06-26T15:49:45Z")
I wonder if their Happy Lendervedder is any better than ours. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/10 "2018-06-26T15:59:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I wonder if their Happy Lendervedder is any better than ours. A mere shadow of the original, I can assure you. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/11 "2018-06-26T19:15:24Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I wonder if their Happy Lendervedder is any better than ours. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > A mere shadow of the original, I can assure you. He’s actually known as “Indifferent” Lendervedder there. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/12 "2018-06-27T17:19:44Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He’s actually known as “Indifferent” Lendervedder there. And he has a goatee. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-came-across-a-suspicious-sdmb-site/816759/13 "2018-06-28T20:25:42Z")
> [@Mars\_Horizon](#): > > And he has a goatee. In Soviet Russia, message board clones you.