[wp-forums] Watch out for targeted spam

[Handy]

I cleared out a nest of something like that earlier this week.

A few threads about some rental company. A bunch of posts to each thread
discussing it -- but every post from the same IP address. So they created
half a dozen accounts just to do it....

On 2/8/08, Kaf Oseo <kaf at szub.net> wrote:
>
> Seems the forums are starting to get hit with human-submitted, targeted
> spam runs.
>
> Keep an eye out for topics with numerous off-subject (i.e. spammy) tags,
> as well as sporting links with that spam scent. You know the smell.
>
> -Kaf
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