Multiple subtle spammers - similar M.O.

catch - June 5, 2008 - 09:17
Project:Drupal.org webmasters
Component:Groups.drupal.org
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

Not sure about this one. Three commercial non-drupal sites in signature, very strange messages in completely unrelated groups. Either a spammer, very limited English, or very confused.

http://groups.drupal.org/user/20477/track

#1

catch - June 6, 2008 - 10:19
Title:groups.drupal.org spammer» Weird groups.drupal.org spam

another one, very similar:
http://groups.drupal.org/user/19518

Posting on seemingly random threads with only vaguely relevant comments, linking to sites like there:
http://securityco-op.com/state-TX.html
http://offshoresolutions.nl/

#2

catch - June 6, 2008 - 22:04
Title:Weird groups.drupal.org spam» Multiple subtle spammers - similar M.O.

Similar one on drupal.org 'rcen' http://drupal.org/user/294995/track

Original report by John Forsythe: http://drupal.org/node/259610 which I've marked as duplicate of this.

#3

Senpai - June 9, 2008 - 17:15

I'm tracking one of these types of cases on g.d.o. right now. http://groups.drupal.org/node/12088

#4

catch - June 11, 2008 - 08:49

hmm:

One post mentioning PHP on the views help thread but links go to commercial ASP sites.

http://groups.drupal.org/user/18088
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7206#comment-39599

 
 

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