So did anyone else get this p.m yesterday?

[Ric]

It was from a new user called MysterialSEO.

I will quote the message here, please note I am not advertising or endorsing this.


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Best software for black-SEO and promo

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This unique software pack can EVERYTHING.

+ mass post threads and messages on forums, blogs, guestbooks, boards, bulletins
+ mass send PM (personal messages) to ALL users on thouthands forums simultaneously (multi-threading)
+ automatically register e-mail accounts on GMAIL.Com and other email services
+ automatically break CAPTCHAs - you see, this forum has captcha on registering, but it's was breaked
+ automatically break text captchas as "2+2=?", "what color is sky?" etc.
+ have a lot of tools for links databases processing and analysing
+ automatically confirm all links from e-mail account
+ built-in "question-answer" system, mass post-editing system
+ a lot of other features


Name of this program - XRumer 5.0 Palladium
Not XRunner, not XRoomer, not xrumer - but XRumer.

(versions XRumer 2.9 and XRumer 3.0 are too old)


Just ask Google!
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XRumer 5.06 is the BEST software for webmaster: promote your website, increase Google PageRank!
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No posts or anything. Just some punk mis-using the forums. Just thought I would raise the question. I am assuming it will be delt with accordingly

[Angrist]

Not here. But on a similar note, I did get strange mails concerning my WoW account. It's been frozen for years, but now somebody requested a new password and activated my free TBC trial.
That is so weird, it would mean he also has access to my e-mail, which is virtually impossible.

Oh, he got me banned twice, for spamming the chat.

[Combine 017]

Didnt that guy already make a spam thread before?

[Bond]

I'm going to look into how to crackdown on these spammers later today.

[Bond]

New users now require a unique email and email verification.

Hopefully this solves our problem.

[KillerGremlin]

Programmers these days....

I assume these bots operate like a call logger, only they find internet forums and attempt to advertise their shit. No intelligent person would try to advertise crap on a forum with such a small community like GT.

Occasionally when searching for some obscure artist on google you find a spambot posting the same spam on multiple forums.

Such a waste....

[Bond]

We are still trying to crack down on these annoying spam bots. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you see a post that was missed please report it, and if you get a spam PM please let me know and I will ban the member.

[Typhoid]

I'm still freaked out how the spambots we got lately told us what they like - with relevance.

Sweet Jesus, they're learning emotions.

[Dylflon]

Every time I see a spam post, I miss CamFuBot tremendously.