"kolmogorov455" spambots posting entries to LJ communities

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This morning, I received 4 moderated submissions to the daniel-vala community from suspicious accounts: congmetu, itboufza, rwenelat & tionilhy

I reported them to LiveJournal as bot accounts & also banned them from the community for these reasons:

• The content they posted did not pertain to the community.
• The content of the entries were meaningless nonsense text in both Russian and English.
• The single bit.ly link in each entry redirected to a page going to a 404 error.
• Nearly identical content was submitted by multiple bot accounts, most likely part of a botnet.

I reported the links to support@bitly.com as spam because bitly.com/ 1xs5Slb and bitly.com/ 1v5vEgT both go to the domain ab-ap.kozar.kuliah.co.id, which returns a 404. (FYI if you add the + symbol to the end of a bit.ly link, it provides you a preview of where the link goes to.)

Other communities I'm a member of had several similar spambot entries posted to them today, which the mods quickly deleted.


The entries contained random, auto-generated text fragments in Russian & English, plus either the black & white image "kolmogorov455.jpg" of pre-calculus in Russian (shown at right) or a color photograph of a stack of books (which I didn't right-click save).

SUSPENDED SPAM BOT ACCOUNTS

1. congmetu
2. dingfora
3. franufge
4. itboufza
5. lauconja
6. menspena
7. rwenelat
8. spirsile
9. tionilhy
10. terslasa

Remember, you can click on the userhead icon next to any LJ username to get a popup window which lets you tick "ban user in my journal" or "in my communities".

You can also report bot accounts at http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml
or add usernames to your LJ blocklist at  http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml