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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 03:17 PM
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What's the crack, these guys keep posting random crap on loads of build threads. Any ideas?
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 03:22 PM
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its just a spam bot, the latest ones juts copy a post from earlier in the thread.

give it a while, and there signature will have a link in it advertising something
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 03:24 PM
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Aaaaahhh, I see. It's annoying
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 04:07 PM
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you have only seen a fraction of what spammers appear, lucky for you all we have a some lightning quick mods on here that have a zero tolerance, its a cross we bear being the uks busiest ford forum
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by 1-PD
you have only seen a fraction of what spammers appear, lucky for you all we have a some lightning quick mods on here that have a zero tolerance, its a cross we bear being the uks busiest ford forum

Hmm! have noticed...
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 04:16 PM
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We must of had over 10 posts appear on the Notts Forum today
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by 1-PD
you have only seen a fraction of what spammers appear, lucky for you all we have a some lightning quick mods on here that have a zero tolerance, its a cross we bear being the uks busiest ford forum

Happens on most forums busy or not. Got to get the old defenses tightened
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i have noticed lots of spam thread originating from asia recently advertising live streaming for american football games.
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 09:38 PM
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Yeah, i've seen loads recently too. Are they real spammers or spam bots?
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