We keeping getting these spammers of late. They embed links in their posts that lead to sites that are designed to take your money and/or sell you something. Worst case scenario is that you click on the link and then do something on that site that causes your computer or phone to get infected.
These posts generally happen in fairly old threads and the registered new username is not very inventive and has no avatar. The content of the posts can sometimes start with some "friendly" banter roughly related to the topic of the thread (but vague and tangential) and then after a couple of posts, BAM!, out comes the embedded link. You can usually tell that the poster is not from the west. By their sentence structure and by their grammar and syntax, it's not hard to guess that they are from the orient. In other words, they can't put a decent sentence together to disguise their lack of western upbringing and in many instances, their ignorance.
They expend very little effort to register a username and make a new post. Do they actually make money just doing as many such posts as possible knowing that they'll get next to no "hits" and quite quickly get the post removed and their account terminated? I thought they only make money if they get lots of hits. Anyone know how that works? Why do they even bother with apparently so little return?
These posts generally happen in fairly old threads and the registered new username is not very inventive and has no avatar. The content of the posts can sometimes start with some "friendly" banter roughly related to the topic of the thread (but vague and tangential) and then after a couple of posts, BAM!, out comes the embedded link. You can usually tell that the poster is not from the west. By their sentence structure and by their grammar and syntax, it's not hard to guess that they are from the orient. In other words, they can't put a decent sentence together to disguise their lack of western upbringing and in many instances, their ignorance.
They expend very little effort to register a username and make a new post. Do they actually make money just doing as many such posts as possible knowing that they'll get next to no "hits" and quite quickly get the post removed and their account terminated? I thought they only make money if they get lots of hits. Anyone know how that works? Why do they even bother with apparently so little return?
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