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who are these people??? - 05-29-2008, 12:24 PM


I've notice tons of new people with
location 1
name 1

i know they're spammers
but why? what do they want?

i just see them lingering on our forum, are they right clicking our pic's and saving them like silvestangs lol jk scott

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05-29-2008, 03:49 PM


Patty,
If you look a tad more closely, you will see that they have been banned.
Yup, they want to litter up our home with their garbage.
Sometimes they are caught before they can dump here.
Sometimes they dump some trash before they are banned.

Now, I'm not picking on any one spammer in my captured image below. I just happened to pick the first one that I found.

Also, did you see Abel's post regarding spammers?
http://www.californiaphotoforum.com/...3754#post13754

If you look right below the user name, you will see the word Banned.

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05-29-2008, 07:57 PM


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I've notice tons of new people with
location 1
name 1

i know they're spammers
Yup spammers

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but why?
To make money.

[quote=pattyhm73;13936]what do they want?

For us to click onto their links and land on their page. Each visitor that the get earns them money.

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i just see them lingering on our forum, are they right clicking our pic's and saving them
No, they are bots, not mean for saving data.

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like silvestangs lol jk scott

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