One small victory over the spammers

We get a lot of spambots. Overwhelmingly they fail to post anything, which is great, but a lot of them do manage to create accounts (some of which manage to get past account activation, though many don't).

If I'm feeling sufficiently outraged (or insufficiently swamped, work-wise), I will occasionally find the company or product they're promoting and contact them directly to tell them what's being done in their name. I'm convinced in most cases they've just hired someone to do "SEO" or "internet marketing" and have no idea that these are the methods being used and/or that this why the service is so cheap.

Anyway, I've only gotten responses a handful of times over the years, but yesterday I not only got a quick response, but when I elaborated on what was happening they told me they'd paused their contract with the person in question.

Thought some of you would get a little fraction of a warm fuzzy from that.

I certainly did! I have gotten a bit more aggressive with my zapping of the accounts lately, as I used to wait until they posted, but it is usually fairly easy to spot a bot when it gets stuck on the user profile page or something like that. Easier to spot many of the bad user names these days, also.

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Some days i feel like a spambot, j/s

I bop spambot post whenever I see them. I get satisfaction when I get the message, the post in question has been removed....I'm talking about spammers NOT MoFos.

I don't spam, but I have consulted with Cumhammer Inc. on improving my branding.

Currently my profile reads as:

Freelancer
Recluse
Middle Class
VICTIM

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

I was hoping to get rick-rolled for old time sake.

spam spam spam - Nothing like a bot posting ... lol ... I have a lot on my forums.

You could use CAPTCHA for your sign up process.

Ha, in what sense?

Sometimes when I get spam, I would look at the header info to find the senders IP address and I would use that to find the senders ISP and complain to them.

Just going through the motions, the flipside of dazed and confused

I'm using CAPTCHA, this happens after signup.