Hellfire Citadel item dupe

[Zemsta]

with a total of 3 posts?

They create new accounts over and over, but the bot is the same, it copy-pastes a string from a random post that already made in the topic, and adds an 1x1 pixel image to the end of the line. http://webhostinglo.com/9ce12.jpg

They're super easy to spot, just select the whole text line and you can see the extra image pixel at the end.

Some examples for bot accounts:
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...-iosephws.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195671
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...6-zxfgcfg.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195676
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...amphirecw.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195681
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...appymilli.html -- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195685
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...-hawnrsen.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195705
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...rdonyxgen.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195700
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/memb...-arenbesu.html ---- http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/sear...archid=8195708

There are a metric ton of other bot accounts involved in OC threads, just type in Google: "http://webhostinglo.com/9ce12.jpg ownedcore"

[tssguy123]

Nice. How does this benefit them?

[advanta]

Nice. How does this benefit them?

Most forums have minimum post count restrictions for spammy-type activities, bots can get around this if no one notices. If the spambot hits minimum post count it can then flood the forum with explicitly commercial messages designed to make money from affiliate programs.

This isn't one person btw, it is turnkey software used by multiple users in multiple forums.

IMHO you need insane volume to make money at this. There are easier ways to make money. Spamming youtube would be much easier.