Spam attack with potentially compromised accounts


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I've seen a few threads where the OP made a relevant and on-topic thread (very clearly not a spambot), and then the OP followed up with a quote of someone replying to that thread including numerous spam urls embedded in the quote followed by a line and a "Thanks my problem has been solved."

I'm surfacing this here because the spam itself is a bit sneakier than normal and it seems the automated filters may need some adjustment, but also because the original posts made it seem like their accounts were being compromised instead of accounts created just for the purpose of spamming. I'm not sure what sort of logging paizo has, but it may be good to monitor this and alert the impacted users if this is indeed the case.

For people reading this: please please please stop re-using your passwords! If these are indeed account compromises, it is almost certainly the case that paizo was not compromised and instead the spammers got passwords from elsewhere and are just trying them here to see if they work.

EDIT: Addendum: It is also possible that these are indeed spambot accounts as I see the two examples I looked at are very new accounts. It's possible that the bots just found an earlier thread and then copied the original post into a new thread to make it seem more legitimate.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service & Community Manager

Thanks skizzerz. Those posts & accounts were indeed spam. We're investigating the issue. In the meantime, if come across something that feels spammy, go ahead and flag it and we'll look into it.

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