Spam
TappedOut forum
Posted on Feb. 24, 2014, 9:10 a.m. by SharuumNyan
Besides the many obvious spam posts below, that look like they're from Bangladesh or India, I've also been seeing lots of ads on the site targeted at an Indian audience over the last couple of days. Could they be related? Maybe some kind of hack?
SharuumNyan says... #3
I wonder why I see Indian ads then. I haven't been looking at anything like that online.
February 24, 2014 9:26 a.m.
where are these appearing? as forum posts or comments?
February 24, 2014 10:34 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
Forum posts. They're always new threads (I guess the spammers don't want to complete the comment tutorial). Some have been popping up in the Q&A recently.
nobu_the_bard says... #2
Seems improbable to me; I mostly see ads for Mailboxes.com, which suggests the ads we see are targetted based on user history (I was researching that site recently due to spam email using the domain frequently).
Tappedout doesn't use a Captcha for new accounts, which makes it particularly vulnerable to this sort of post spam.
February 24, 2014 9:15 a.m.