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    Badger50
    Badger50
    Elfstone said:
    Hello good people,

    I am starting to love our little thread here! I have to admit, I do love a bit of spam hunting :> :>

    Question to you all that have been doing this on here for longer than I have:
    - how do you do it? Any tips & tricks to easily find spam bots / spam accounts / spam posts?
    I just check the new posts tab and I check the new members section. The only problem with the New Members section is that it only shows the last 12 accounts created.
    Is there any way to see a full list instead of just the last 12?

    Anyway, I will keep my eyes open and my "refresh page" finger ready! :)

    Happy hunting!
    Elf.
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    Ah! Welcome young Obiwan! We are happy to have you aboard.😀
    I'll answer you as best I can.
    First and foremost is the obvious stuff the serial spammers use: links to Keto, gambling, escort, and SEO or digital marketing sites are easy to spot, and we Mods typical get them fairly quickly.

    New member "About" profiles are pretty easy to spot as well like @Dayuser is so very good at which usually has a link or reference to what they're all about. Keep a lookout for questionable usernames and avatars as well.

    Then there's the sneaky stuff. The 6 main types to look for are:

    1. Imbedding spammers: They hide links within a word or words by changing the color of the spam link like I did here. Which are easy to find if you drag your cursor over the text.

    2. Post quote spammers: As the name sounds. Find the link I added to your post I quoted. ;)

    3. Punctuation spammers: They hide links in almost any form of punctuation you can think of. Did you see the colon and period I added in my sentence?

    4. Hyperlink spammers: These are sometimes tricky to find since they'll add a link within, or at the beginning or ending of a legitimate link to hide it, or use a URL shortener if they really want to be sneaky. So just cursor drag across the URL and you'll usually see the separation and find the spam link.

    5. Signature: Spam links added in signature.

    6. Editing spammer: They'll come back a day or 2 latter and edit their post to add a spam link.

    So just be diligent and report anything you find suspicious in this thread, or use the "report" button since there are several of us that patrol the forums daily.

    Cheers: Badger50
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    ElfStone
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    Already mentioned above. Sorry.
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    ElfStone
    ElfStone
    Hello good people,

    I am starting to love our little thread here! I have to admit, I do love a bit of spam hunting :> :>

    Question to you all that have been doing this on here for longer than I have:
    - how do you do it? Any tips & tricks to easily find spam bots / spam accounts / spam posts?
    I just check the new posts tab and I check the new members section. The only problem with the New Members section is that it only shows the last 12 accounts created.
    Is there any way to see a full list instead of just the last 12?

    Anyway, I will keep my eyes open and my "refresh page" finger ready! :)

    Happy hunting!
    Elf.
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    Clark Joseph Kent
    Clark Joseph Kent
    Members, this thread is to report any found Spam.

    And or hit the report button is also a great way to report the found spam, thanks in advance, for helping keep XDA clean.

    Remember the Moderators are all in different time zones, and we are not able to be all over XDA even for some of us that do not have a life other than XDA, this is why we rely on those XDA Members to assist in either posting here or reporting the spam on the reporting system that goes to the Moderator Teams for those areas, and again we are all on different time zones on this World Wide Web.


    >>>FOR MSG'S SENT VIA YOUR CONVERSATION (PM) INBOX ON XDA, DO NOT POST HERE, REPORT THE CONVERSATION VIA THE REPORING SYSTEM AND IT WILL BE ADDRESSED FOR YOU.

    THANK YOU!
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    Sachin
    Sachin
    @The Merovingian

    Another one : https://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=8583643

    Banned

    Holy.. Another one : https://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=8583672
    @The Merovingian ^ :/

    Banned

    Thanks!
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    mikef
    mikef
    Just wanted to thank you guys for reporting, we do appreciate it though we don't always take the time to reply as often as we should after checking it out.

    Thank you,

    mikef
    XDA Senior Moderator
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    Sachin
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    timmymarsh
    timmymarsh
    My standard tpv pm sent to many, many people:
    Hi there,

    Several of your 'thanks' posts have been deleted as it is obvious that you are trying to get your post count up to ten to post in the dev forums ;)

    Instead of spamming the forums with 'thanks' posts [which is against XDA rules] you would be better off hitting the thanks button. To get to ten posts, head over to the general Q&A section of your device or the main Q&A forum and answer a couple of peoples questions.

    This has 3 benefits - win:win situation :

    1. You get to help another member and get the 'feel good factor' by helping someone out.
    2. Your post count will very quickly increase - there are many people out there looking for help and you wont get into trouble by spamming.
    3. You may actually learn something new today by helping someone with a problem that you may not of known about yourself - remember Google is your friend (search).

    So, go on, feel good today and help someone you dont know ;)

    Cheers.

    Tim.
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