Comments | report_spam: "I have a huge crush on you" LJ comment spam

campylobacter in report_spam

"I have a huge crush on you" LJ comment spam

Nov 10, 2012 16:47

A new trend in spamming has many LiveJournal members seeing this comment to their old posts left by strange LJ accounts that have no entries:

Hey This is hard for me because I have never done anything like this.. but I have a huge crush on you. I have never been able to tell you for reasons which you would quickly identify as obvious if you knew ( Read more... )

spam, fake accounts

Comments 21

madders_ahatter November 11 2012, 12:32:35 UTC

I've had the exact same message from 'terlocandba (46.119.120.206)' and 'erfordibbtang (46.119.112.23)'
Can you say 'fickle much!'

campylobacter November 11 2012, 14:20:58 UTC

Boo on those cheating bots! (Looks like erfordibbtang has now caught the eye of the LJ suspension protocol!

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campylobacter November 11 2012, 20:17:44 UTC

Added to list, banned, reported!

Seems to me that these bots are mainly attracted to entries with many comments from different users. Only a few of my recent entries without comments have received Huge Crush spam.

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campylobacter November 12 2012, 03:38:37 UTC

The second one would be the perfect name for a death metal punk band.

hodhor November 11 2012, 22:41:36 UTC

cremykpoi46
websrocon83
plemalhaynor

campylobacter November 11 2012, 22:57:53 UTC

Added, banned, reported:
cremykpoi46
plemalhaynor
websrocon83
Hope they get suspended soon.

neverminetohold November 12 2012, 09:46:01 UTC

Uhm, excuse me - if you ban/delete these people - will then, in my inbox, their comments appear as "You are not authorized to view this comment"? Because I just deleted all the spam and didn't worry too much about it, but when that text appeared, I panicked a bit...

campylobacter November 12 2012, 14:27:31 UTC

Whoa, that's weird. In fact, that's Open a Support Request Weird. (Rest assured, you're not banning 'people'; you're banning one of thousands of fake accounts opened & operated by a script executed by zombie computers under the control of a few botnet crime lords.)

Looks like you're NOT the only LJ member to encounter this weirdness:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1567713

neverminetohold November 12 2012, 16:18:36 UTC

Thanks to you and fiddlingfrog I came down from my adrenaline rush. So, again, thank you! :)

campylobacter November 12 2012, 16:39:09 UTC

hahaha This comment thread got knee-deep in Nerdville thanks to you. ;D

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missparker November 13 2012, 16:45:54 UTC

oh i got one:

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