What's up with the weird PM's that are mostly punctuation marks? And what's the sender trying to achieve?
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What's up with the weird PM's that are mostly punctuation marks? And what's the sender trying to achieve?
Prairieschooner, No one knows for sure, least of all the idiots who send them. Most of us just delete them without opening to avoid hassle. Jim
forward them on the Uncle Jesse.... --- just stirring the pot / kidding Jesse
annoying for sure as said just delete and move on... its meaningless to me - IMO
Be safe
I've gotten 10 just from that one guy
Guess he has no other life
I get my share, I just delete them and move on. They are not as bad as the phone calls especially at meal time. But, as soon as I get the callers name, I have started telling them I have been trying to reach them about their car's warranty. They hand up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Molcsan
That's your computer (or the software that powers this site) trying to interpret unicode as ASCII. The original was either in a non-Roman alphabet (like Chinese) or a Roman alphabet with lots of diacritical marks (like Vietnamese.) It's just spam, pure and simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prairieschooner
Another fly fishing forum which I follow (and which recognizes unicode) gets a lot of spam in Vietnamese. It's always trying to sell cinnamon as health food. Nothing particularly sinister, just useless.
Just delete them. Some people just like to be annoying or crooked.
The Chronicler
theres a ton on older bot accounts from before i became admin i try to weed them out the best i can but its rather hard when I am unsure of all the names. send me the names and i'll ban them and block the ip. try to keep up with ip blocking many of these accounts
When I get my hands on him I'm going to beat him with an Ugly Stik? and make him fish a Zebco closed face reel.
Got another one today.
It's definitely in Vietnamese, something about eliminating stinging warts forever.