Below, I’ve quoted an entire spam post that showed up in an IMHO thread.
What I don’t understand is why this type of spam exists.
It has no links to any other site, no advertising, no attempt to squeeze money from anybody. There is no request that you reply, or take any action at all, so it can’t be a scammer’s attempt to collect functioning email addresses.
So who wrote the bot program that goes to the trouble of registering and then posting here?
What’s the point?
Now, for the details:
In IMHO, there is a thread right now titled “women, talk to me about your bra habits”.
So yeah…women are mentioned, and that’s obviously the hook the spammer found to post this:
The language is almost logical, but not quite.It reminds me of those attempts to to beat spam filters in emails advertising Viagra-- but I haven’t seen that tactic for several years now.
So what is it all about? Who benefits from this?
(The post was made at 4:34 am today, and the next post 10 minutes later reported it, so I assume the mods will delete it as soon as they wake up.)
Also, a related question: how does a bot program register here to post? Isn’t there a captcha or something the first time you register? Something that requires human input, other than just clicking on the link they send you?
A quick Google with a couple of small phrases turned up two other sites that had been seeded with what appeared to be much the same text in the last few hours. One had already been disappeared by the time I looked. (Of course the top hit was this thread. ) Google takes a while to crawl everything, so there are likely more out there. Seems the dope is a bit of a favourite for Google to keep very up-to-date on. We must be special
Either the proper link was not done or the spammer plans to come back later to add the link, not knowing there’s a limited time to edit here. Some boards allow unlimited edit time.