Tyler
07-10-2006, 05:38 AM
For those member that may have seen a member here named Erica, you'll be glad to know that I've banner his/her account and removed all of his/her posts.
I apologize for the tardiness in this issue.
Actually, if you're interested, Erica was not a 'he' or 'she' at all but actually a robot! Spammers are finding more elaborate and intricate ways to spam all the time. One of the more recent inventions are these bots that register on forums and try to post while advertising the spammers' sites in either their signature or actual post. The bots try to grab certain keywords from the previous posts and come up with human-like response.. however the technology is very simple and do it's easily detected as a bot.
I apologize for the tardiness in this issue.
Actually, if you're interested, Erica was not a 'he' or 'she' at all but actually a robot! Spammers are finding more elaborate and intricate ways to spam all the time. One of the more recent inventions are these bots that register on forums and try to post while advertising the spammers' sites in either their signature or actual post. The bots try to grab certain keywords from the previous posts and come up with human-like response.. however the technology is very simple and do it's easily detected as a bot.