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New Forum - Wierd New User Names?

by ActionToCash
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Hey Warriors,

I recently started a new forum that is in it's infancy, and have had multiple sign ups, almost none of which have ever post anything.

At first I thought it was because the forum was new (and perhaps that's part of it), but what I seem to notice is that most of the time the new user ID's look strange and spammy - and oftenly that goes for many of their email addresses they are using as well when they setup an account.

If they were at least posting (even if it was spam) with these ficticious names it would all make sense, but why would so many people take the time to setup an account if they aren't going to post?

Is it some kind of spam-bot that goes out to online forums and sets up new accounts? It seems like there is some kind of motivation and I'm just trying to figure out what it is...

Your thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Randall :confused:
#forum #names #user #wierd
  • Profile picture of the author jaxrefinance
    Sounds to me like they are using xrumer or some other software like that to get the names in place so they can spam later. I used to have a forum and that started happening after a bit... sign up, no post and then later post viagra spam and such.
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  • Profile picture of the author ElMundodelExito
    Most likely they are putting links in their profile. Must be xrumer and profilebot.
    Do you see the email addresses with russian names or sexi-viagra names??
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      They are using the profile to build their back links. Like the person said above they are using some type of program to build profiles.

      It is a common practice and is widely used. Is it ethical? Most likely not. But, it is widely used to build back links.
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  • Profile picture of the author itzpaul
    It could be profile forum backlinks. Other then that, I have no clue.
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  • Profile picture of the author dremora
    If you use vbulletin, there are plugins to block them. Use a decent captcha (default one is useless) You can also set the forum to moderate first 5 posts for all new users, so they go to moderation queue before appearing (until you find a Plugin that works) unfortunately I haven't kept up with the plugins so I don't know off the top of my head, but there are some good ones that work.
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  • Profile picture of the author V12
    It's probably just the IRS so relax, nothing to worry about. :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author ActionToCash
      Ok - thanks everyone - makes sense now.

      Yeah, I'll possibly need to look into controling this a little closer.

      Thanks again!

      Randall
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