Topic: [theymos help!] Many Newbies posting the exact same message, Mod action required - page 3. (Read 939 times)

What you should have done, is report the thread if it breaks the rules.

I sure hope so!

The warning is in all the sticky threads.

Report it, and do your share of cleaning up the spam.

Hi! But this was condition of amazix bounty. It is lottery and they told to write exactly this text: "participating in Codex Lottery round 2".
What do you think? Now all bounty proof messages will be banned?
Or may be make a warning will be good decision for first time?
Or easier not to ban forum participants, but delete thread with such messages?

Nuked/already perma-banned:


I want to keep going but I have a meeting now. Great job, Loyce. Thanks for doing this.

Well, that failed
I wanted to add a message and quote myself, but I guess I'm tired, as I accidentally removed the OP

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Google cache to the rescue, but restoring all links will be too much work. Luckily, most spammers in this post were handled already.

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Update: mattcode noticed a homograph spammer today, and after looking further, I see many of the Newbies reported in this thread now spam homograph attacks too!

This user or this user for example now use homograph attacks in their spam, which they didn't do yesterday.
This confirms my expectation that it's just very few people controlling many spambots. They adjust their spam once too many of their bots get caught. I've seen this before in a bounty campaign filled with spammers/cheaters, now they do it on the forum too. I can only hope they changed this because a significant part of their spambots was banned. But for future cleanups, something needs to be done. By changing either one or more characters, they can now make many different versions of each word.
Hence the updated thread title, theymos said before he can automatically change all Cyrillic characters on English boards, and I think it should be prioritized.

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I was searching through a few days of patrol data, hoping to find plagiarism, but I found something much bigger: many Newbies post exactly the same message to join (I mean spam) a bounty thread.
Considering the rules:
Users posting "joined" type posts when not required or allowed will be BANNED
Incentivizing posting via low effort tasks (likes, follows, etc.) is NOT allowed
The involved threads should be closed, and in my opinion most or all of those users don't add any value to the forum. And I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are just bumpbots.

While making this list, I found some spambots too, that only use 1-4 accounts. I won't list them all here, but just report them.

Some examples, and note that this data is far from complete and probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Example:
Quote from: Wulfgard on July 10, 2018, 12:49:42 PM
participating in Codex Lottery round 2 posted by:
     1. anth36jian
     2. alvin345
     3. armack18
     4. ashbe
     5. Arthemiros
     6. Leile
     7. Fenrikinos
     8. Lra_viva
     9. velona2589
    10. Arakus
    11. greylady6
    12. jamesmorison
    13. Julya
    14. jordenka52
    15. nopium
    16. ntcnet
    17. alaskashergil
    18. hron023
    19. greatwall85
    20. dongan85
    21. eokids02
    22. Liyc
    23. kadia5856
    24. jaacre
    25. bcc05
    26. ikben67
    27. quangteo
    28. gunbars
    29. letitbe
    30. alphavested
    31. erin1588
    32. huylinht
    33. israrul
    34. bchdfsy
    35. chriswetoyouny
    36. Abysm55
    37. barteq
    38. kemal379
    39. josh113
    40. rukuruku
    41. cjuice
    42. igtbgx
    43. l05443
    44. JBClay
    45. chasun
    46. Nenacondr
    47. lolycoin
    48. tttuida
    49. ovinna
    50. iHalera
    51. Cmaldeniya
    52. GastoneLocatelli
    53. eddievantapout
    54. kuerewsarl
    55. anthraxlin
    56. greggy
    57. Johnalbert
    58. qrkdirect156
    59. kioklfe
    60. orinoco1856
    61. ddomains
    62. houndie
    63. grandgt
    64. iammoney
    65. astrologer123
    66. goatminer
    67. aldorexxx
    68. ginchang
    69. Murksy81
    70. bveqagtpf
    71. huataoya19
    72. jpbewxqv
    73. ketkib
    74. hgjwuch
    75. hfaekahp
    76. bromosus
    77. aversuz
    78. Obregon
    79. derrick02
    80. btcoin
    81. nGNNQTXadg
    82. jjohnson05
    83. bvmfpwaw
    84. cfhpshen
    85. Jheylo25
    86. kade432
    87. hHIHO
    88. Royqwe
    89. zenifer22
    90. hujinfeng
    91. bzh55
    92. ioan0000
    93. amark320
    94. jimpattison2
    95. Wulfgard
    96. phones34
    97. omegaswitch
    98. PHash
    99. bixorastexante
   100. xfyjdf
   101. haydeno45
   102. jenny159
   103. annajacob92
   104. james988
   105. edgephstd
   106. z67uhgt
   107. khautrang022
   108. honghets321
   109. JacsonHolmes
   110. fellix77
   111. traw21
   112. taraslone
   113. nassimback
   114. Chesterjems
   115. lordnitrox
   116. madsorts
   117. standucci
   118. guuputu
   119. gabapentin
   120. ramanmart1
   121. AllieClyde
   122. Sophiakute69
   123. harrywills42
   124. morgan Ken
   125. toyota262
   126. Adolppe
   127. jonnystiffin
   128. Ganeen
   129. 5SFxLtd
   130. HearingCentral
   131. atisabrina
   132. johnnoah88
   133. alister.kain
   134. higan
   135. justin335
   136. johnymartine
   137. reyanief1
   138. baesooz
   139. rinasopnal
   140. Deathunt
   141. crostix
   142. Roronshi
   143. yuri0509
   144. amilyalice
   145. johnkemp555
   146. asbetosquotes
   147. cannacolli
   148. nowthe
   149. haidenherald
   150. jamespinto74
   151. lohainiliaria
   152. gabbitbit
   153. aaronjoshap0

There are similar numbers for this variation:
Quote from: Wulfgard on July 09, 2018, 02:29:21 PM

Spambots posting "This coin has been added on channels" (already reported):
     1. jeffclinger
     2. MasterOfSearch
     3. NeCoiTea
     4. NewCoiTeams

I found 670 accounts posting "good project", 59 of these didn't bother to type anything else in that post:
     1. Elargoub1979
     2. tripack144
     3. yogesh86
     4. Hukam11
     5. danlinh
     6. dikahendra19
     7. jamikapop
     8. Sayed1213
     9. kha1984lil
    10. Nguyenhau
    11. Abdalnasr
    12. ranu786r
    13. usk
    14. nadu07
    15. hodaifa43
    16. heritageday
    17. Kk123388
    18. duydong1995
    19. kinglussa
    20. nguoidanba98py
    21. Loucrypto
    22. kinjun25
    23. zapatista02
    24. taiqn1988
    25. Looklike
    26. bijoy5514
    27. Satoune
    28. ngotiendung93
    29. Shivam7
    30. jzager786
    31. Onlinebitpay
    32. sunilkumar1982
    33. ngocanh1979
    34. jarnonestor
    35. SHIFX
    36. Steve Adam
    37. pankajkumar
    38. phamngoc01245
    39. UnderPerfect
    40. michealmike23
    41. biticoinmaniaa
    42. truonglo
    43. adam1011
    44. papandar_
    45. nigmi1234
    46. airdropalert786
    47. HaVuongbk
    48. jhonney4532
    49. skyatplay
    50. jhonnyrolkuy435
    51. myhuynh7979
    52. juneriu
    53. Asim48900
    54. nadeemfaisal635
    55. rajibonlak
    56. fahetic
    57. nguyentuannghia320
    58. ndlelep
    59. Ngoc1106

The same for "#joined":
     1. Elargoub1979
     2. tripack144
     3. yogesh86
     4. Hukam11
     5. danlinh
     6. dikahendra19
     7. jamikapop
     8. Sayed1213
     9. kha1984lil
    10. Nguyenhau
    11. Abdalnasr
    12. ranu786r
    13. usk
    14. nadu07
    15. hodaifa43
    16. heritageday
    17. Kk123388
    18. duydong1995
    19. kinglussa
    20. nguoidanba98py
    21. Loucrypto
    22. kinjun25
    23. zapatista02
    24. taiqn1988
    25. Looklike
    26. bijoy5514
    27. Satoune
    28. ngotiendung93
    29. Shivam7
    30. jzager786
    31. Onlinebitpay
    32. sunilkumar1982
    33. ngocanh1979
    34. jarnonestor
    35. SHIFX
    36. Steve Adam
    37. pankajkumar
    38. phamngoc01245
    39. UnderPerfect
    40. michealmike23
    41. biticoinmaniaa
    42. truonglo
    43. adam1011
    44. papandar_
    45. nigmi1234
    46. airdropalert786
    47. HaVuongbk
    48. jhonney4532
    49. skyatplay
    50. jhonnyrolkuy435
    51. myhuynh7979
    52. juneriu
    53. Asim48900
    54. nadeemfaisal635
    55. rajibonlak
    56. fahetic
    57. nguyentuannghia320
    58. ndlelep
    59. Ngoc1106

xx Translation reserved:
     1. sogut
     1. unos
     1. aekbiru

Just the word "good":
     1. duccuvan
     2. Tony191293
     3. garibaldi82
     4. santosh8316
     5. minhtan66
     6. levansy07051983
     7. Minhbuu
     8. adesoji22
     9. abdou3
    10. elmany
    11. Tranvantuong
    12. Radich11
    13. thuan2018
    14. moneyzeasy
    15. thanhnguyen8888
    16. Moisesxd
    17. DUC HUAN
    18. thanhhuy1727
    19. jazzy111
    20. [email protected]
    21. edisamuel123
    22. huaminhthuan
    23. thanhtv1903
    24. Andy_Chris

I can keep going like this for a very long time, there are much more spammers to take down, but before I continue, I'd like to know if a Mod is going to pursue this.