[wp-forums] multiple account spammer

[Mika A Epstein]

That is brilliantly Aaaaaaaarrghjgearo;ewfw inducing.

Otto wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:25 AM, esmi at quirm dot net<esmi at quirm.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> on 19/07/2013 12:25 alchymyth said the following:
>>
>>>
>>> a user with the same IP 122.162.160.103 seems to be trying to spam the
>>> forum;
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/anthonyamy
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/carterthomas
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/chrislarkin
>>> I set the latter two to 'inactive' - and am going to keep an open eye on
>>> what is happening with the user.
>>
>>
>> I think I spotted posts from 1 or more these earlier. There could be a
>> couple of other accounts from a different IP address too. They're all
>> posting links to sites selling facebook likes and instagram stuff 
>> disguised
>> within spoof support posts from what I could see.
>
>
> It is definitely an automated spambot. All posts from there should be
> deleted, all accounts found set to blocked.
>
> Basically, it's taking posts from the forum, modifying them slightly,
> and reposting them with links to other sites included. Examine this
> one:
>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-appearing-in-admin-panel-and-on-website?replies=2&view=all
>
> Note how the post by "Janebewes" is an exact copy of the one above it,
> but with some of the wording changed in a worthless and automated
> manner. "Sounds like" became "resembles". "language" became "dialect".
> And so on. Language fuzzing, basically.
>
> -Otto
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