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I make sure it as far as your Japanese skill goes

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djbass wrote

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Are you sure?

KingMike wrote

But that's about as far as my Japanese skill goes.

daryy wrote

I make sure it as far as your Japanese skill goes

These spambots are getting good.

It's simular in format to spam I've had on my board in the past.

Checklist:

- daryy registered and posted on the same day
- only ever made a single post to a thread that was 5 months old
- parroted text from the last person to post in this thread
- very odd grammar.. yes we get a lot of non-english speaking visitors.. but even they aren't that bad.

break the text down as follows and its clear its copied:

'as far as [my/your] Japanese skill goes'

I'll bet there are other clues in the user profile.

I've even been getting bots register past the recapha page... apparently these days they register with a human then let the spambot get to work.

Split from the original thread, moved to this forum and user nuked back to a guest. While he's not doing anything much yet, daryy does seem to fall into forum honeypots a lot. We get a large number of these weird signups, but not a huge amount of posting, which is nice. My guess is that it's human testing for inclusion in spamlists; worst case, we get marked as "reCAPTCHA required, can't post links as anon" and that's the end of it.

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daryy Guest	Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:44 pm
daryy Guest	I make sure it as far as your Japanese skill goes

djbass Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 512 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:58 am
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CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 562	Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:52 am
CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 562	djbass wrote spambot alert Are you sure? KingMike wrote But that's about as far as my Japanese skill goes. daryy wrote I make sure it as far as your Japanese skill goes These spambots are getting good.

djbass Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 512 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:41 am
	It's simular in format to spam I've had on my board in the past. Checklist: - daryy registered and posted on the same day - only ever made a single post to a thread that was 5 months old - parroted text from the last person to post in this thread - very odd grammar.. yes we get a lot of non-english speaking visitors.. but even they aren't that bad. break the text down as follows and its clear its copied: 'as far as [my/your] Japanese skill goes' I'll bet there are other clues in the user profile. I've even been getting bots register past the recapha page... apparently these days they register with a human then let the spambot get to work.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 8986 Location: London	Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:32 pm
	Split from the original thread, moved to this forum and user nuked back to a guest. While he's not doing anything much yet, daryy does seem to fall into forum honeypots a lot. We get a large number of these weird signups, but not a huge amount of posting, which is nice. My guess is that it's human testing for inclusion in spamlists; worst case, we get marked as "reCAPTCHA required, can't post links as anon" and that's the end of it.

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