July 5, 2008

Creating “Fake” Signatures

Filed under: Anti-spam — Dave Rathbun @ 8:16 am Comments (6) 

One of the boards that I help administer is seeing a new form of spam that I call fake signatures. It’s very irritating, but quite creative. The people (or person?) doing this are joining the board and getting past the checkbox challenge, so I assume they’re human. They are posting what at first glance looks like legitimate content. But there are symptoms. More…

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