Fake Gunbot PM spam

[LoyceV]

I received, tagged and reported this PM today:

The domain name was created last month. I wouldn't be surprised if this is another spambot that will use many accounts to PM, hence the warning topic.

Real Gunbot topic: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥[GUNBOT] Trading Bot with 136 exchanges available!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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[HCP]

Had the same thing from a different account a few days ago...



A fairly organised (and no doubt automated) campaign spamming this (fake?) "gunbot"... Looks like its going to be a case of "whack a mole" trying to stop these newbie accounts... Not much anyone can really do to avoid this sort of thing but disable PMs from Newbie accounts... which is something I'm a little reluctant to do, because I get a fair number of "legit" PMs from newbie accounts requesting help with technical problems etc

[TheUltraElite]

Reported the PM first thing yesterday when I got it. Newbies are allowed to PM so we cant do anything about them but ignore them and report.

Of course we are older members of this forum so we are aware of it being a trap and know the original project of Gunbot well. Therefore the ones getting scammed are the newbies and the PM is enticing enough to get their attention enough for them reply, sadly these scams will happen unless the person becoming the victim uses their logic in the first place.

[Steamtyme]

I got hit with this on the 6th I believe, I immediately just reported it and forgot about it. Reading your post I checked and noticed it was still in my inbox (always thought the forum removed them) so I reported it again as the user account still seems to exist. Same "code" slightly different wording in my PM

Seeing as they had no posts and only PM's I expected them to have been nuked by now. This was my winner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2895827

[LoyceV]

noticed it was still in my inbox (always thought the forum removed them) so I reported it again as the user account still seems to exist.

The forum Admin doesn't remove PMs after reporting them (you can do that by yourself).

Seeing as they had no posts and only PM's I expected them to have been nuked by now. This was my winner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2895827

That account didn't get banned and it didn't make any posts. It looks like a farm created solely for PM spam (at this moment at least).

[sujonali1819]

This spamming in this forum also? Yesterday or a previous day I saw a message like this in another forum. He/she used the same code (JL0216) everywhere.
It looks like the spammer or scammer is doing a hard job to pm manually to a lot of accounts in several forums. LOL

BTW what is behind in the code JL0216? I just searched on google and see a lot of results carrying this code. Google Result

[DireWolfM14]

Interesting.  My PM settings allow messages from newbies, but I haven't received one.  Not that I feel like missing out...

But this seems like an incredibly inefficient method of spamming.  IIRC the default forum setting is to not allow PMs from newbies, and I imagine most people leave it set to the default. 

BTW what is behind in the code JL0216? I just searched on google and see a lot of results carrying this code.

Looks like a model number for a toy excavator. 

[nasipadang]

This spamming in this forum also? Yesterday or a previous day I saw a message like this in another forum. He/she used the same code (JL0216) everywhere.
It looks like the spammer or scammer is doing a hard job to pm manually to a lot of accounts in several forums. LOL

BTW what is behind in the code JL0216? I just searched on google and see a lot of results carrying this code. Google Result

That is the problem with such code names, which are used in many contexts and companies to indicate certain meanings. That way confusion can easily arise.
If you search for it on google, you will end up with a kind of Mini Ferrari 

[Steamtyme]

noticed it was still in my inbox (always thought the forum removed them) so I reported it again as the user account still seems to exist.

The forum Admin doesn't remove PMs after reporting them (you can do that by yourself).

Seeing as they had no posts and only PM's I expected them to have been nuked by now. This was my winner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2895827

That account didn't get banned and it didn't make any posts. It looks like a farm created solely for PM spam (at this moment at least).

That's why I was confused. My fault for making assumptions, but I figured the account would get nuked and all spam PM's with it. I've only encountered the situation a few times so I'm definitely fuzzy on the details. Now I have some questions so, off to meta I go. Edit: Feel free to ask more questions I may have forgot.

Considering they have banned someone old as dirt, in forum years for sending PM's en masse, arguably less atrocious if given context. Once again a business personality received a small break for stepping toes out of line. Can't figure out why a farmed spam PM account is dodging bullets. Maybe an oversight