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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Sat 27 Aug 2011 12:11 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Actually I've noticed a technique recently ... spammers copy and paste a recent forum message (from the forum they are spamming) and then add on their spam link at the end (or the middle, even). I think the rationale behind this is that, without taking much effort to understand what the forum is about, a genuine message, reproduced, will be voted as "good" by Bayesian filters, and the small percentage of spam added to the end isn't enough to trip the filter.

In fact, unless you look closely, even regular forum viewers are likely to let the message slide (and not alert the moderator) because it "looks genuine".
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by KaVir   Germany  (114 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sat 27 Aug 2011 10:33 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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It's just random bits of text from elsewhere, designed to confuse spam filters, and to increase the chances of future spam getting through (particularly if your spam filter uses Bayesian inference for its algorithm - the spammer is effectively teaching your filter to be more lenient).
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Posted by Thorbenn   (25 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sat 27 Aug 2011 07:41 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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very interessting grammar :) but what do you expect from spammers.
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Posted by Fiendish   USA  (848 posts)  [Biography] bio   Global Moderator
Date Sat 27 Aug 2011 01:27 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Please click this click!
http://aardwolfclientpackage.googlecode.com/
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Fri 26 Aug 2011 11:59 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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I just got an email, part of it is exactly this:


we will be complimentary seat to the 5,000 players. You can log Web site application, we will be lucky players randomly .Please click this click to apply If your account passes the check successfully, we will send a code for the Winged Guardian flying mount to you in the form of e-mail.


And yes, the "we will be complimentary" starts a paragraph with a lower-case letter.

How old are these spammers? 8?
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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