Spammers on board

[5hero]

I reported a post the other day about dodgy spam relating to posts like:

Gemmaa said:

Not for me thanks!

on this thread:

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

The post I reported was removed, but it seems other "people" are signing up to post more of their crap.

More details on how it works:

http://forums.hostgator.com/hidden-images-more-tha...

[0a]

Very interesting, I had not seen this before.

[5hero]

Another "member"

narcoman said:

Lovely colour. I used to like this car.

on this thread:

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t...

[5hero]

And another (trying to fit in a bit more):

ieirp said:

Really wanted to go to this one as I have had many a good night out in Austin, Texas (excluding the one where I met my other half of 15 years......

on this thread:

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t...

Just went through the recent members who joined over the last couple of days to find the last couple. It's amazing how many "members" have their spam URL in their profile, with no intention of ever posting here I imagine!

[slinky]

Thanks for highlighting these users, I've removed the latest offending posts.
If you spot any, as the moderators can't be everywhere all of the time, hit report and we'll pick them up..

[5hero]

No problem, I (and hopefully others too) will keep my/our eyes peeled.

[PoleDriver]

What do we need to look for?

[5hero]

Which browser do you use? In chrome you'll see a (missing) image at the end of the post.

Edited to add, I suppose just a suspiciously short first few posts should ring bells if you can't see the image. Just quote their post to double check and see if there's an image there.

Edited by 5hero on Thursday 5th July 20:34

[PoleDriver]

I'm on Firefox.

[slinky]

Quote (but don't post) the first post on this thread, you'll notice that there's a gif hidden in the post. That combined with the random nature of the posts is what we're hunting out..

The gif is there to drive backlinks and increase search page rankings...

[PoleDriver]

OK, I see it now! :-)