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Quote from: LoyceV on October 21, 2024, 06:34:46 AM

It's just like email spam: it's very cheap to send, so they only need a very small percentage to hit the target to earn money.

Exactly , and its nearly the same with the Malware posting Accounts that i reporting the last years.
If they just catch one or two from the 10 or 20 posts they made they have what they want.
I would be not surprised if this are the same guy or guys that posting the Malware shit Fake Anns as they woked up again the last weeks.
So far i can see that 120 posts was made with that google download Link.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on October 21, 2024, 06:25:43 AM

I wonder what these spammers can achieve by so persistently placing their software under links.

If spam wouldn't be profitable, it wouldn't exist. It's just like email spam: it's very cheap to send, so they only need a very small percentage to hit the target to earn money.

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Quote from: Lucius on October 21, 2024, 05:05:52 AM

Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 20, 2024, 11:21:24 PM

I really wonder how these guys manage to waste time on spamming hence they can use a normal account and be as normal as possible. Isnt that hard to do?

They do not see it as a waste of time, but as an opportunity to succeed in their intention, whatever it may be. By creating a large number of profiles and quick posts in as many boards as possible, which have the most views, they increase the chance of success - although they gave up very quickly, considering that something like this does not go without reaction on this forum.
ost and put post history in the description so that moderators can delete everything as quickly as possible and nuke such users.

I wonder what these spammers can achieve by so persistently placing their software under links.
The person behind these accounts is not very smart if he expects that someone of high rank will use his "services." There was so much spam on the forum, and you can see from the number of views that no one reacted to their topics. Newbies? I don't think they are interested in newbie accounts.
I reported a decent amount of this garbage yesterday, and I think it is faster to send a report than to create this topic since the moderators clean everything up very quickly.

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Quote from: TryNinja on October 20, 2024, 03:34:10 PM

Captcha is cheap to solve. There are many services like 2captcha where you literally pay $1 per 1000 solves of recaptcha v2 and a little bit more for 1000 solves of recaptcha v3. Tongue

I'd love to pay $1 to not see the next 1000 captchas in my browser. Even better if there's a privacy friendly way to add this to Tor browser.
I looked a bit futher this time, and found their demo: it looks like it's more work than solving the captcha myself. That means it's a great tool for spammers with automated systems, and useless for normal people who really don't like captchas.

Captchas kinda have the same problem as Newbie jail: spammers don't mind jumping through hoops, but as a normal user it's very annoying. I must have seen tens of thousands of captchas by now, and even more "cookie popups" and other annoying "notifications".

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Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 20, 2024, 11:21:24 PM

I really wonder how these guys manage to waste time on spamming hence they can use a normal account and be as normal as possible. Isnt that hard to do?

They do not see it as a waste of time, but as an opportunity to succeed in their intention, whatever it may be. By creating a large number of profiles and quick posts in as many boards as possible, which have the most views, they increase the chance of success - although they gave up very quickly, considering that something like this does not go without reaction on this forum.

Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 20, 2024, 11:21:24 PM

Anyway will note on these accounts OP and instant report them once spotted.

A tip for a more effective report is that it is not necessary to report each post individually - just one post and put post history in the description so that moderators can delete everything as quickly as possible and nuke such users.

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Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 20, 2024, 11:21:24 PM

Quote from: un_rank on October 20, 2024, 05:15:51 AM

This has been active for a couple of hours now and this being the weekend, it is possible for them to be missed for a couple more. I suggest the users get nuked as that will be the fastest way to get rid of the spam which is on multiple boards.

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I really wonder how these guys manage to waste time on spamming hence they can use a normal account and be as normal as possible. Isnt that hard to do?

Anyway will note on these accounts OP and instant report them once spotted.

Well, They are promoting illegitimate services, therefore they are attempting to spread them as much as possible in a short amount of time before being reported and removed. They are aware that the service they are promoting is illegal and do not want to identify it with their real profile.

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Quote from: un_rank on October 20, 2024, 05:15:51 AM

This has been active for a couple of hours now and this being the weekend, it is possible for them to be missed for a couple more. I suggest the users get nuked as that will be the fastest way to get rid of the spam which is on multiple boards.

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I really wonder how these guys manage to waste time on spamming hence they can use a normal account and be as normal as possible. Isnt that hard to do?

Anyway will note on these accounts OP and instant report them once spotted.

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they are the same people who spammed the forum with their possible malware spam about a month ago. some of them were spamming on gambling boards earlier and reported their post every time I saw a new one, glad they are a nuked now but I'd assume they'd be back again.

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Quote from: un_rank on October 20, 2024, 05:25:55 AM

They just keep popping up so I gave up reporting them and just thought to make a general report here and add new users I see created to the list to make it easy for mods to track and nuke.

I can imagine that if they won't stop then your list eill surely increase since they can create new ones and post the same spam posts. I wanted to check the thread but it was deleted already and it's better that way since you said that it is a suspected malware spam. We can only report those posts and let mods do the rest. Your list will make it faster for mods to nuke these accounts. We can only report it so don't worry since you are not the only one who will report those spam posts.

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I saw them a lot in B&H board locked with the same titles with different usernames. So yeah, reporting them to mods or mitchel with proper bot filter this can be prevented for future posts but of course later on they will do another set of titles to bypass the bot to create a post.

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Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 01:41:36 PM

I'm wondering how they bypass the captcha. It's likely they use a human as pointed out earlier or some form of API that solves them as a service

Captcha is cheap to solve. There are many services like 2captcha where you literally pay $1 per 1000 solves of recaptcha v2 and a little bit more for 1000 solves of recaptcha v3. Tongue

It's great to avoid brute-forcing (i.e no one can brute force my password because they would require millions of attemps = gets very expensive). But creating 1000 accounts? Literally $1. Tongue

It's not the first time these accounts come posting "scripts" to hack a gambling website or bitpay. I've been reporting them for years.

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The issue with these threads is that dozens of them pop up in seemingly an instant.
I'm wondering how they bypass the captcha. It's likely they use a human as pointed out earlier or some form of API that solves them as a service. The issue is that it appears as though this spam wave takes longer to defeat than to create. Because a mod would have to manually nuke each profile, whereas whatever method the spammer uses seems faster and the posts stay up for at least a few minutes and get at least a few dozen views before being taken down.

Especially on a sunday like today where many mods are probably resting from their job.
That's why I said some form of newbie jail might be a good idea.
It could at least be a light newbie jail where you get out with a few merits or if you pay a very minor BTC amount.

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I wanted to make a thread on it but thought it wasn't worth much and would be dealt by the moderator.
The smart thing they do is that they lock the thread to prevent any attack on them
Or something that would tag it red.
Locking the thread would make unsuspecting users to click the link
Which am almost certain is nothing Good.

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After the moderators have successfully cleaned up the first wave spam, now the second wave is coming with different accounts.

Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 07:43:18 AM

What do you mean?

https://www.zimperium.com/glossary/green-hat-hacker/

It doesn't seem so they're a green hats because they're doing the same thing and spread suspicious links, it should be black hats.

Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 05:30:42 AM

Someone has found some software that breaks the anti-botting technology of this forum and is abusing it quite a bit.

I think it's not a bot, instead they know how to evade from geo ban and completing the captcha.

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Quote from: Sandra_hakeem on October 20, 2024, 07:41:32 AM

Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 05:30:42 AM

Someone has found some software that breaks the anti-botting technology of this forum and is abusing it quite a bit.

This looks more like the green hats really spent time brute forcing instead.

What do you mean?

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Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 05:30:42 AM

Someone has found some software that breaks the anti-botting technology of this forum and is abusing it quite a bit.

This looks more like the green hats really spent time ~~brute forcing~~ trying to recalibrate their means to evade the anti-bot instead... That'd mean simulating a real human.. e.g scrolling frequently to divert the blockade and detection of the bot IMO. Do we really have softwares for that?

Quote from: alani123 on October 20, 2024, 07:43:18 AM

What do you mean?

re-read this again.

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Quote from: un_rank on October 20, 2024, 05:25:55 AM

They will be deleted eventually but they will easily just create new ones and continue spamming the forum.

The spammer had started this like 2 or more weeks ago. What I meant is that moderators were deleting the posts as fast as possible, unlike what happened now that we see the posts spamming the some boards. Even if you want to report most of the posts that time, it would have been deleted before reporting it.

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Someone has found some software that breaks the anti-botting technology of this forum and is abusing it quite a bit.

Maybe the newbie jail would be a nice idea again?

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Quote from: Poker Player on October 20, 2024, 05:18:54 AM

I've reported a few in Gambling before and now I see Bitcoin Discussion is full.

They just keep popping up so I gave up reporting them and just thought to make a general report here and add new users I see created to the list to make it easy for mods to track and nuke.

Quote from: Charles-Tim on October 20, 2024, 05:21:04 AM

I have reported 4 or 5 of the posts recently like an hour ago but I noticed they have not been deleted. The earlier posts were deleted.

They will be deleted eventually but they will easily just create new ones and continue spamming the forum.

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I am also tracking the gambling board where I saw many of the spam posts. It is that user that always create many accounts and using them to spam. I hope moderator will delete the posts soon. I have reported 4 or 5 of the posts recently like an hour ago but I noticed they have not been deleted. The earlier posts were deleted.

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