username 'hamer' - spammer?

[groovylee]

hamer has joined today, and all of his posts are copy and paste of others posts, can't see any spam links or anything though
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Past - 1988 honda revere 600, 1996 kawasaki gpz500s, 1999 Yamaha R6

Current - 2002 Aprilia RSV1000R & 1999 Kawasaki ZX6R

[TheSmiler]

[Alpha-9]

https://www.filii.info/hh.gif
(IMG tags removed, just in case.)
Whatever gif he links to doesn't work, creeper
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Fzr-600 1999

[Korn]

Looks like some kind of spam bot (albeit a broken one).

Deleted & banned now
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3516 Miles, 11 Countries

[groovylee]

nice one korn
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Past - 1988 honda revere 600, 1996 kawasaki gpz500s, 1999 Yamaha R6

Current - 2002 Aprilia RSV1000R & 1999 Kawasaki ZX6R

[Rogerborg]

Next one..

https://www.bikechatforums.com/search.php?search_author=rolond

It's a bit of a mystery what they're trying to push, the gifs seem to be hosed.
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[Alpha-9]

[Kickstart]

[Korn]

[G]

These seem to come out, after a while at least, as a 1px .gif.
In some cases being redirected a few times first.

I wonder if it's either trying to find a browser vulnerability, or maybe even just collecting IP data for whatever reason.

[Rogerborg]

Another:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=78770

An insta-ban if a user's first post attracts SPAM ratings might not be beyond the pale. It'd nail a few legitimate posters, but likely not many that we'd actually miss.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Korn]

Half-considering adding an "all user-posted links and signatures on BCF have rel=nofollow on them, so there is *zero* SEO benefit of trying to link your website here in any way" notice to the first time a new account starts posting a message.
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3516 Miles, 11 Countries

[G]

Certainly I'd like to see maybe that posts are hidden and require authorisation from a moderator if the first posts garner spam ratings.

[Alpha-9]

What about https://www.bikechatforums.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=78563
tlartist

I can't tell if he's purely here for commercial gain, but he speaks like a spam bot anyway and I think just wants to spam his link out via his sig



Edit: Actually looking at his posts he is fairly helpful, I guess the advertising threw me off

Edit: In fact now he's posting redundant drivvel
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Fzr-600 1999

[Kickstart]

[bazza]

[G]

Just had another one do it in this thread .

Anyway, did some googling and it turns out it's an IE9 exploit which doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome - in IE apparently it is just spam, rather than something more nefarious.

Maybe quite clever, even if not intentionally as IE users tend to be less tech-savvy (and this.)

[Kickstart]

Hi

Can't really find anything on that exploit. Any pointers?

All the best

Keith
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[G]

I searched for 'forum spam blank image'.

Clicked the first link which took me to another forum.
Unfortunately since yesterday it would seem they have set it up to require registration.

However as I type, it's still in the google cache, here.

[groovylee]

hmmm, looks like it's pretty widespread then.

i spam rated another one earlier
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Past - 1988 honda revere 600, 1996 kawasaki gpz500s, 1999 Yamaha R6

Current - 2002 Aprilia RSV1000R & 1999 Kawasaki ZX6R