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You search woman for friend?

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:15 am
by lilu677
If you search girl for pen pal and more, it for you!
I'm single girl and i search single man, I'm 33yold.
my e-mail: starmylife777@gmail,com
If you search woman for pen pal and more write to me and i can send
to you my new pics and tell more about myself.
I post this message from this forum because i don't have credit card
and can't pay of dating site.
If you want find a friend please write to me.
I wait your message on my email.
Natalya.

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:54 pm
by darkknight
Ummm....Yeah......no.....

I have been gone far too long and this is what happens....

........

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:24 am
by Watercolorheart
LOL ...

A 33 year old woman is not a girl.

For some reason, I'm sensing the fact that the poster may not be female at all ...

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:22 am
by PyTom
Normally, we'd just delete this is as spam. But I didn't get exactly how this post was trying to spam me... so I left it.

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:58 pm
by dizzcity
It looks like a canned script from a bot to me. Notice that this "Natalya" person refers to "the forum", but not anything about her specific interests or why she posted on this particular forum. If she had said even one line about games, anime, J-stuff or visual novels, I would have accepted it as human, but this message is so generic ("penpals"?) that it could easily be duplicated for any forum.

Also compare the location (UK) of the user and her standard of English. Plus, there are half a dozen free dating sites available. A simple Google search showed those up. This message would then probably fall under the "pointless" part of Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages. ;) :P

-Dizzy-

EDIT: I can't believe I actually typed two whole paragraphs about this. >.<

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:07 pm
by Jake
dizzcity wrote:Also compare the location (UK) of the user and her standard of English.
I don't know, living in the UK myself I can think of several people with similarly poor language skills... ;-)

Seriously, though, I'd have deleted it already. My best guess is it maybe collects email address from anyone foolish enough to email the address given?

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:11 pm
by Adorya
Before bot script begin their flooding, I suggest to enhance the register section with some question like "write the answer of this question" (usually 1+1). This should repel most of them for a while.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:04 am
by PyTom
Well, I just went ahead and installed a better CAPTCHA for the site. So hopefully, that will get rid of most of them for a while. And if not, I have some knobs I can turn up on the CAPTCHA.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:55 pm
by Blue Lemma
Adorya wrote:Before bot script begin their flooding, I suggest to enhance the register section with some question like "write the answer of this question" (usually 1+1). This should repel most of them for a while.
Sadly, this would repel some real users, too :P

(Then again, would that be such a loss in this case? :wink: )

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:06 pm
by PyTom
For what it's worth, you can see the new CAPTCHA at http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/freecap/freecap.php . And maybe one day Lemma will tell the group what words he got the first time he tried it. ;-)

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:28 pm
by Megaman Z
Blue Lemma wrote:
Adorya wrote:Before bot script begin their flooding, I suggest to enhance the register section with some question like "write the answer of this question" (usually 1+1). This should repel most of them for a while.
Sadly, this would repel some real users, too :P

(Then again, would that be such a loss in this case? :wink: )
my thoughts exactly. I'm pretty sure if they can't answer that... *trails off*

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:38 pm
by monele
"hotrod" ? XD... this is made on purpose, I'm sure ! (I really got that on my first click @_@)

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:52 pm
by Watercolorheart
... "insane" ...

PyTom, is your CAPTCHA teasing me?

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:59 pm
by Megaman Z
NEWBIE?!? I AM NOT A NEWBIE!

(although I can't wait for something potentially offensive to show up... that will be the day I die of laughter)

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:54 pm
by musical74
"goodly*...I'll take that

First one was *frizz*...had no idea what that is....goodly was next...it seems rather odd - in a good way :)