They are not entirely useless. If they send a link to a single pixel white gif,
and your email is set to download images upon opening, they now have another
email address they can add to the "gold" list and sell for more money.
I disable image downloading as standard procedure, only because I h
Mike Bonner wrote:
> Another option is that its a farm bot rather than a spam bot. Farms to see
> if an account can be made, including a successful post, at which point it
> logs the account info for later use.
that seems to be that sort of spam ;-)
again and again they put forward the same in
Another option is that its a farm bot rather than a spam bot. Farms to see
if an account can be made, including a successful post, at which point it
logs the account info for later use.
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ot;collateral damages" of their bots or do you see any model of value they
> take out of these entries?
> Tiemo
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> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: OT: On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA)
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> They make a lot of money. Normally there's some url hidden in the crap,
and if
> people go there they make 2 cents from google adverts. If they spam 2
million
They make a lot of money. Normally there's some url hidden in the crap, and if
people go there they make 2 cents from google adverts. If they spam 2 million
per day, and the turnaround is 0.1 percent, then they get a good income.
Sometimes they also harvest email replies, and working email addre
Hi,
what I would like to know is what intention do have bots (the humans behind
the bots) to make useless entries into blogs or - in my case - in signing
on to get a newsletter with non existent nonsense email addresses. The only
sense in that behavior I can think of is that there must be any kind
