New type of forum spam

leodown · Apr 22, 2009

Since we see he is mostly preaching his anti-green message to cause havoc on Progressive boards it begs the question where does he call "home" on the Internet? Does he chat freely and safely with other rabid ICE fans somewhere? Is there a site that he regularly Posts with people of his ilk?

vfx · Apr 22, 2009

leodown said:
Since we see he is mostly preaching his anti-green message to cause havoc on Progressive boards it begs the question where does he call "home" on the Internet? Does he chat freely and safely with other rabid ICE fans somewhere? Is there a site that he regularly Posts with people of his ilk?

This post was just this week.

Study Calls Environmental Benefits of Electric Cars ‘Fiction’ | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site

Comment number 53 has many of us believing he is a paid shill for GM.

doug · Apr 22, 2009

FYI, leodown above may be a spammer. However, I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt.

doug · Apr 24, 2009

vfx said:
I saw a few of these Autobloggreen Posts he made and thought about how hw must troll the green EV sites constantly to get in his vile comments in so quickly.

Since we see he is mostly preaching his anti-green message to cause havoc on Progressive boards it begs the question where does he call "home" on the Internet? Does he chat freely and safely with other rabid ICE fans somewhere? Is there a site that he regularly Posts with people of his ilk?

I think that he has to get his vitriolic prose from other sources than his own scrambled brain.

See something familiar?

vfx · Apr 24, 2009

Yeah, another typo! :smile::frown:

doug · Apr 24, 2009

Compare the quote from you above with the quote you took from leodown.

It's a new spam tactic. Though I had already removed the spammy links. It's pretty tricky since the method is to steal a paragraph from earlier in the thread, thus making the spam post likely to be on topic. (Though admittedly less likely if stolen from vfx. ZING! :wink

We caught a few of these uncannily on topic spam posts earlier this week, but I just figured out the method this morning when I saw my own words in one, and then did a search to check some of the others.

JRP3 · Apr 24, 2009

Very sneaky, good catch!

EVnut · Apr 24, 2009

Doug - nice piece of detective work! Dang they're getting better at this, aren't they? Seems like a lot of effort (unless they have a way of automatically doing that??) for small potential gain.

The only question is - why the heck is he still a "member" here?

vfx · Apr 24, 2009

doug said:
Compare the quote from you above with the quote you took from leodown.

And I just thought leo and I were psychically connected.

doug said:
...(Though admittedly less likely if stolen from vfx. ...

We all do our part for the greater good .

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