... in what looks like a scene from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai, the "Today's Birthdays" at the bottom of "Forums" features an awful lot of 23 year olds with names followed by four digits. They all seem to have pictures, a "message" or two, but no posts. Not sure what to make of that. Might be worth looking into.
Yeah - funny - I bet they are all fans of the PDL, which is another tell tale sign of Spammer. Not sure what they think they get out of registering and then doing nothing, but we get a lot of these.
I'd also bet on a bot. There's at least two members that end in 0592. I wonder if other numbers repeat. I do see a lot of the combinations have digits 1-4 in them, FWIW. I wonder if the "register and do nothing" is a result of email verification needed. It's kinda hard to start posting if you're a bot that can't access email to click a link.
I only noticed because when I'm not logged in I go immediately to the bottom of the page. That's usually irritating, but I'm kinda glad today. That was pretty odd. I wonder if some guy spent a whole day doing that for some reason, or if some start-up in Taiwan had a couple of interns do that in preparation of a spam/marketing campaign, or what. Not that I'm going to spend much more time thinking about it.
This is cracking me up. More spammers turning 26 today. This time they seem to be spamming only on their personal page.
I said "personal page." I meant "public profile." These folks are dumb, even by spammer standards, but I don't think they're that dumb. If they are, then good for Bigsoccer.