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jj2007:
Ralf,

Any idea what these bots want? There used to be a species that embedded links to shops in their posts for raising google hits, but the last two just repeat earlier posts without such links. What do they gain by posting here??

frankie:

--- Quote from: jj2007 on January 03, 2015, 10:35:42 AM ---Ralf,

Any idea what these bots want? There used to be a species that embedded links to shops in their posts for raising google hits, but the last two just repeat earlier posts without such links. What do they gain by posting here??

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At least a couple.
They check how the forum control is effective, and what's the traffic.

Bitbeisser:

--- Quote from: jj2007 on January 03, 2015, 10:35:42 AM ---Ralf,

Any idea what these bots want?
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Gaining a foothold...

--- Quote --- There used to be a species that embedded links to shops in their posts for raising google hits, but the last two just repeat earlier posts without such links. What do they gain by posting here??

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Most of these have a kind of dummy signature, without a actual link when they sign up. Then they post what seems an harmless post into an existing thread, with a more or less matching contents. This is to get past the initial forum moderation that is in some forums in place, where the first (few) post(s) of a new signup needs to have moderator approval. They rely here on the fact that in a lot of forum software this moderator approval page does not show the whole thread, so a harmless reply, somehow on topic to the subject line might get them past this point.
And once they have a foothold, they change the signature to link to spam sites and/or start to spew whole messages with spam.

Just doesn't work here  ;)

And those aren't bots, those are real-live "string puppets", therefor bypassing all those more or less fancy "gotchas" that are aimed at preventing real bots to sign up and post...

Ralf

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