# Where does this type of spam come from, and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 27, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-type-of-spam-come-from-and-why/735851 "2015-10-27T06:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-type-of-spam-come-from-and-why/735851/1 "2015-10-27T06:03:26Z")
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? > [@](#): > > Single Women > > * * * > > Hello Single Ladies Be Careful. Check this out! > > Crime Alert: Single women new family home buyers being targeted for fraud and Dave Wilburn and family Glenn Harper and two sons Jamberlyn Voss Willie J Braddock Sonja Lavendar Raymond Austin and Ramone Austin Sheila Austin with Dee Chatman Denitra Chatman Jesse Chatman Claude Smith III Keisha Presley Tasha Presley Ira Morgan Dan Taylor Jr Lillie Bell Chatman Lorraine Taylor Robinson Renee Taylor Milton Owens Terrance Owens Rodie Hamer Quentin Kinchelow Detriesse Denton Georgia Denton Tereny Little Jeremy Denton Harold Austin and Members of a Racial Biased Hate Motivated Organized Supremacist Group named the family are targeting single women family homebuyers humbling the women down as the young women were in the movie Taken internal and external the body forcing them file federal bankruptcies chapter 13 keeping the women financially strapped as a hate motivated crime > The women are homebuyers normally living alone with children and whipped and homicidal assaulted with intent to murder whipped and beaten profusely to the head internal and external the body by the men and women named in this report Raymond Austin Charles Kinchelow Jr Indianapolis In " The slang term used is lawing women down " keeping the women and children financially strapped. The members named referred to the women as "hoes. " The women can be assaulted by any member Raymone Raymond Austin Shelby County Tn Ira Chatman Ira Morgan Antionette Neely Brittany Neely Jesse Chatman Jessica Chatman Bridgette Taylor Gwendolyn Kinchelow Atlanta. Ga Gwendolyn Taylor Memphis Tn Francis Taylor Vanessa Taylor Chatman Joshua Austin Vicksburg Miss leader and orchestrator women beatings l Lisa Moore Edwards Humphrey Moore Sr and Jr The Kinchelow family h The women are being murdered also The family has formed allies with Street gangs FAM Mob in North Memphis Tennessee . Charles Kinchelow Jr and the East Boyz Street gang Gangster disciples to commit these crimes . These individuals have maimed several mothers grandmothers Daughter nieces in committing these crimes severly humbled and abused the women are forced to.file federal bankruptcies chapter .The women sometimes on Lured to a church religious organization First Baptist Winchester on Millbranch Rd Memphis Tn through invitation just for this crime to be set up by congregation members and pastor Claude Smith III Alandrous Williams Joseph Smith Jamberlyn Voss Alice Faye Williams Don Smith murdered Emma Rankin Kevin Rankin Elaine Rankin Raymond Austin (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? ---
**Author:** ![andrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@andrewm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-type-of-spam-come-from-and-why/735851/2 "2015-10-27T11:55:22Z")
Possibly attempting to poison spam filters - which means you’re _helping_ them by quoting it. ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-type-of-spam-come-from-and-why/735851/3 "2015-10-27T12:34:11Z")
Poisoning is a good thought. 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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-type-of-spam-come-from-and-why/735851/4 "2015-10-27T13:58:22Z")
As mentioned, defeat the spam filters. 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.