Spammers Motivation?
The spammers are active again this morning. What I do not understand is: What reward do they get for spending the time to post such gibberish? I don’t open the links, so are they “farming” for e...
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Dog Folks wrote:pconroy328 wrote:
LIL (Last in Line) almost all spam posting is now automated. So there's pretty much zero effort. Which makes *any* reward, no matter how low the probability, high.
So... Would not a CAPTCHA image in the sign up area of the web site stop that cold?
Or is this site just not willing, for whatever reason, to implement it?
Thanks for of you helping me understand this stuff.
A captcha does not always stop them. There is lots of bad code, there are lots of bugs, and there are lots of creative hackers who can find ways to make things do stuff they were not intended to do. In the case of the spam in this forum, it is likely one of two scenarios:
1) manually creating accounts, which as mentioned is less likely
2) someone found a way to automate the process on this forum by using code to "understand" the captcha or to bypass the captcha all together.
