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01-22-2011, 07:07 PM

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Is there some super-secret hacker site that has a list of forums and where to post? (list for the spammers to use)

I've noticed that almost 100% of the spam is coming into the first forum within a forum group. In other words, if I have 5 forums, each with 5 subs under that, the spam is coming in almost always to the first listed subforum. This seems very bot-like.

Last night I switched back and forth between questions and captcha, and watched the spam roll in even right after I made the change. So, someone might have gone to my site and pre-answered all of the questions and plugged them into their "bot". The posts also come from different IPs as well.

If someone is taking the time to do all of this, I fail to see the benefit. I don't think the spam on my forums gets any traction for these people. Our site is very popular with Google, perhaps they are not looking for links, but looking for Google to index our pages and then elevate their results?

Who knows...

-Wayne

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