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So first things first, I don't understand how spammers think. I guess maybe spam must work, or it wouldn't be a thing. I just don't know how it could work.
But to the point, why this forum for this particular spam? How did the spammer choose Paizo as the target? Is there a much larger Hindi/Urdu (almost definitely Urdu, based on some of the names/references) community on these forums than I'm aware of?
I'd expect wow gold spammers. I'd expect dating site spammers. Hindi/Urdu fortunetelling spammers though? WTH?
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more spam reviews
I really hate it when they do the review right during the weekend. That's just dirty pool.
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So first things first, I don't understand how spammers think. I guess maybe spam must work, or it wouldn't be a thing. I just don't know how it could work.
But to the point, why this forum for this particular spam? How did the spammer choose Paizo as the target? Is there a much larger Hindi/Urdu (almost definitely Urdu, based on some of the names/references) community on these forums than I'm aware of?
I'd expect wow gold spammers. I'd expect dating site spammers. Hindi/Urdu fortunetelling spammers though? WTH?
My guess is that magic is a high search term for us given their particular type of spam.
what does get ride of an enemy / 2nd wife mean? is that like a hit I always wonder how the advertised spamming reviews on the weekend makes sense.
AUGH! Loveking has started up again!
Can Paizo hand out the "Passport to Ban Town" for these spammers
Another spam review. It's here.
When you cut off one head...
Hail HYDRA!
I think shreebaba is a bot as well
maybe...
New spam review
http://paizo.com/people/motebabaji1008/reviews
None of the spam makes any sense. If the idea is to get a few idiots to sign up for something, shouldn't the spam actually have some coherency to it? I miss the days of the body part enlargements. I at least knew what they were rambling on about.
None of the spam makes any sense. If the idea is to get a few idiots to sign up for something, shouldn't the spam actually have some coherency to it? I miss the days of the body part enlargements. I at least knew what they were rambling on about.
It's not targeted at you, so it makes no sense to you. Based on a couple of posts I've seen it looks like most of it is targeted at Asian folk medicine / supernatural beliefs. Not so much Americans or Europeans. And then, how often do bots make sense, because some of this is either bot generated or posted by rote by people who do not speak English. Or not well, anyway. The joys of the internet...
*edit* I do not have a problem with non-English speakers btw. In any form. Just spammers :)
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It's not targeted at you, so it makes no sense to you. Based on a couple of posts I've seen it looks like most of it is targeted at Asian folk medicine / supernatural beliefs. Not so much Americans or Europeans. And then, how often do bots make sense, because some of this is either bot generated or posted by rote by people who do not speak English. Or not well, anyway. The joys of the internet...
*edit* I do not have a problem with non-English speakers btw. In any form. Just spammers :)
I'm guessing it's likely a combination of create user manually with send bot to post.
If you drown every single channel of communication in spam with millions of ad messages for your service, SOME poor schmuck will check it out. The click-through rate for spam like this is pitiful, but then, it doesn't need to be better.
Well, it depends on how much this partcular person understands hat this site is dealsing with. I think they might be attempting to invade any site dealing with magic based upon keyword search or something like that.
Edit: I've just inserted the advised phone in google search and it seems that the fool spams apple forums, diablo forums,.... particularly anywhere you look :D
I'm guessing it's likely a combination of create user manually with send bot to post.
Makes perfect sense. Person to set up the account and deal with the relative intricacy of that, bot to spam it once established. You've been hit with semi-automatic spam :D That sounds like it should be a crime...
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Well, it depends on how much this partcular person understands hat this site is dealsing with. I think they might be attempting to invade any site dealing with magic based upon keyword search or something like that.
Edit: I've just inserted the advised phone in google search and it seems that the fool spams apple forums, diablo forums,.... particularly anywhere you look :D
Weird.
Not at all. I doubt that it costs a lot to pay a poor guy in India to crawl around internet and insert the advert wherever he happens to be. Especially if the phone could be one of those that will double your regular phone bills within two minutes.
He's baaaack. In the superstar forums.
Right on; I just didn't know if flagging 154 posts or whatever would be a hassle from your end.
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In Mr Burns' Voice
"Excellent."
any chance baba Ji will make it into the next monster book?
Man, Baba Ji is a liar.
Clicked the link, I did not in fact become an anti-paladin.
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Well, the russians have a different view of spammers. When they found one of the grand spammers back in the balmy 2000s, they had him executed, or so the legend goes.
Another one, this time spamming the Pathfinder Online forums.
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Hrmm. That guy has his Skype and Yahoo! IDs and hte like. Maybe we can flag those accounts on those services?
I mean, not that creating a new Yahoo! account is much of a road block, but getting it deactivated retroactively invalidates any other spam posted with that contact information.
Might drive down the margin a bit.
Ah, ninja'd by Azure_Zero
And back to more black magic. Different from the above three posts.
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Someone replied to Baba Ji over here, and the post (and thread title) both contain the spammy phone number, which should probably be removed.