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Exactly what a Bot would say!
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One of the forums I was on *check notes* almost 20 years ago combated spam/scam accounts through a variety of measures:
1. New account registrations required: a. Completing a registration questionnaire2. All users accounts inactive for 90 days had permissions set to read only until contacting a mod and having permissions restored 3. Mod accounts were stripped of elevated permissions after 30 days of inactivity 4. Forum software was kept up to date 5. Ownership of forum, assets, administration accounts, etc. was turned over to parties interested in maintaining the site when current owners lost interest |
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A forum I still check a couple times a year, and have been on for the last 15-20 years did it by asking you to answer a question on registration that you would only know the answer to if you had any actual interest in the subject. Something like "Who is the drift king?" Never saw a scammer or bot. Some hackers did get into it through an issue in the software and locked the admin out of the site unless they paid a ransom in bitcoin. They ended up just redoing the whole forum and losing tons of historical data
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I recall my roommate in college was blacklisted by Google for having a monetized website with too much obviously non-human traffic. Him personally, not just the website. Then again I really didn't care much about his side gig so maybe I don't know what I am talking about.
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That’s the point
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people reuse passwords, passwords get stolen in breaches, people don't update them everywhere, and these forums are hardly modern and admins are kinda out of touch, so theyre not gonna do a force password reset for affected people.
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Nice tie
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They are all old accounts with no posts for over a year. If it was leaked lists it should be more random with active or recent users being involved but they just don't appear to be. My best guess is that as you said there was some sort of breach on this forum that has not been closed and the scammers (these are not bots) just gather up a few accounts each day. Hell, more than once I have watched some newly registered user scan the members list for an hour and then the old accounts start logging in one after the other and sending their PMs. I don't spend all day staring at activates either I probably spend a half an hour total just doing random looks. The patterns are so clear that it doesn't take much to predict who will do what. I don't care about the spam bots just report and they go away but these scammers are what can kill a forum very quickly.
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