Question for VBulletin Users: Are you seeing strange posts?

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  • 2MuchMark
    Mark of 2Much.net
    • Aug 2004
    • 50892
    #1

    Question for VBulletin Users: Are you seeing strange posts?

    I am seeing the strangest things lately.

    We run a couple of forums using VBulletin, and are using Captcha to keep out the spammers.

    Every once in a while though, new accounts get through and post very strange messages which seems to contain valid text but is in fact completely irrelevant to the topic of the thread. I can't put my finger on it but it "feels" like a generated post. Sometimes their sigs have links to pill sites or some other such thing, and sometimes not. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing or am I just going crazy?
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    • d-null
      . . .
      • Apr 2007
      • 13724
      #2
      I get that too, and I'm thinking that what you are seeing is a result of xrumer





      bastards should:

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        • d-null
          . . .
          • Apr 2007
          • 13724
          #3
          it is not only vbulletin forums either


          I hate the spamming fuckers

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            • CPimp
              Confirmed User
              • Aug 2009
              • 2346
              #4
              I'm thinking xrumer as well... I have a mainstream forum that has a couple of these posts but its phpbb... Only thing I can think of is that it's manually done... reason being xrumer cant get past the setup I have to block spam.
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                • LoveSandra
                  So Fucking Banned
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 10551
                  #5
                  fucking xrumer

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                    • rowan
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Mar 2002
                      • 17393
                      #6
                      Have you plugged a sentence or two into Google? It's probably content scraped from elsewhere...

                      Or if it's not, you can at least see if it's being spammed out to multiple boards.

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                        • 'mo
                          Confirmed User
                          • Sep 2009
                          • 356
                          #7
                          Your clue probably lies in their sig. 2c
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                            • JamesK
                              hi
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 16731
                              #8
                              Have you tried ReCaptcha? I used that multiple times and it always stopped 100% of the auto generated / outsourced spam.

                              I've seen those irrelevant posts too by the way, not sure what's up with that.
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                                • A.J. Angel
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Nov 2007
                                  • 859
                                  #9
                                  I would suggest you to do a search on either the name or the e-mail address of the account posting irrelevant posts. Usually, you'll be come up with loads of other message boards and one or two spam report sites reporting that account or e-mail address or anything similar.

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