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Ok these two caught my attention as being too weird to be human so I googled one of their names, first mickyching.

The name showed up in a bunch of forums and the registration time is close to the same for all of them. On top of that, his signature is just one word in all the forums...though he changes what word it is. Same with adam...


Micky joined these forums on October 24

Joined little fighter empire on October 24
http://www.lf-empire.de/forum/member.php...e&uid=2279

Joined Muse on October 28
http://board.muse.mu/member.php?u=127151

Joined Freelance Forums on October 24
http://board.muse.mu/member.php?u=127151

Joined my digital life forums on October 23
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/member.php?u=102085

And so on...he posts approximately one thread per day on all of these forums.

Question is, why? What's the purpose of doing this or creating this kind of bot?

Info collectors?

Teenage boys who need to get a life and/or a girlfriend?

I assumed Micky was a bot when his thread started with "Since the what are you listening thread was so popular" and all that.

I'm not sure what the point is. Maybe it's just something nice, something to start topics and such or maybe it is an info collector. Either way, it has started topics that we have continued to post in.

True there Garla.

I think maybe they are raiding the Tavern, like how we plan to do to others.

(06-11-2009 10:12 PM)Senator Wrote: [ -> ]True there Garla.

I think maybe they are raiding the Tavern, like how we plan to do to others.

lol, I was thinking the same.

wouldn't that be ironic...just as we're planning our own operation...it would be better with a few more people though. We're only what 5 right now?...6 maybe

If I was raiding another forum, I was take encyclopedia entries and replace the word platypus with "Cheese".

Oh wait, I've already done that...

You have the time for this? Sheesh

From a wiki search

Forum spambots
Forum spambots surf the web, looking for guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to submit spam links to the web forms it finds. These spambots often use OCR technology to bypass CAPTCHAs present. Some spam messages are targeted towards readers and can involve techniques of target marketing or even phishing, making it hard to tell real posts from the bot generated ones. Not all of the spam posts are meant for the readers; some spam messages are simply hyperlinks intended to boost search engine ranking.

This category of spambots has gained considerable notoriety since November 2006, with the introduction of XRumer, a forum and wiki spambot which can often bypass many of the safeguards administrators use to reduce the amount of spam posted.

The easiest way to prevent spambots from posting on forums, wiki, guestbook, etc. is to enable e-mail activation by installing a mail server on the host (eg: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim.), since most spambot scripts use fake or randomly generated names on real e-mail providers, the e-mails will mostly never be successfully routed to them.