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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. |