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Title: 'Female' spambots
Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 12:11:55 PM
Seems to be a few suspicious accounts making the same "hello ~" all with female names:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401127.0 Lani
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401011.0 Katie
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401047.0 Paloma
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401063.0 Madaline
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401037.0 Paige

And not sure about these ones:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401029.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401019.0


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: Lucky Cris on January 06, 2014, 01:38:15 PM
Looks like you may be onto something. But just out of curiosity... what would be the reason to do this?


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 01:46:07 PM
Looks like you may be onto something. But just out of curiosity... what would be the reason to do this?

Do what? Use spambots?


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: MakeBelieve on January 06, 2014, 02:25:22 PM
I don't see the point of spam bots either but good spot op.


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 02:44:39 PM
I don't see the point of spam bots either but good spot op.

I'm sure there must be some point to them less why bother?


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: MakeBelieve on January 06, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
I don't see the point of spam bots either but good spot op.

I'm sure there must be some point to them less why bother?

Maybe getting their post count up then they are going to sell them?


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 03:07:57 PM
I don't see the point of spam bots either but good spot op.

I'm sure there must be some point to them less why bother?

Maybe getting their post count up then they are going to sell them?

That, and maybe they'll be used in other ways once they get out of newbie jail. Who knows. Maybe they'll just spam links or PMs after a while.


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: MakeBelieve on January 06, 2014, 03:14:02 PM

That, and maybe they'll be used in other ways once they get out of newbie jail. Who knows. Maybe they'll just spam links or PMs after a while.

Could be for them to get into the signature campaigns multiple times?


Title: Re: 'Female' spambots
Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 05:45:47 PM

That, and maybe they'll be used in other ways once they get out of newbie jail. Who knows. Maybe they'll just spam links or PMs after a while.

Could be for them to get into the signature campaigns multiple times?

Or giveaways, but not sure how efficent bots would be at any of this. It'd be easier to do it manually  but maybe more time-consuming.