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20 Jun 2019, 12:45 am

Trip trap, trip trap trip trap... Big Mountain Goat Gruff is on the bridge! :D


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20 Jun 2019, 1:04 am

Yesterday a few of us had messages from a Catherine55 asking us to email her. I replied "Can't we chat in here?" and I had no reply. Later I found out others had had the same mesaage. Why would a person want to be emailed? Why not talk in here? Trolls?


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20 Jun 2019, 4:57 am

The troll is in the eye of the beholder.



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20 Jun 2019, 8:16 am

Mountain Goat wrote:
Yesterday a few of us had messages from a Catherine55 asking us to email her. I replied "Can't we chat in here?" ... Why would a person want to be emailed? Why not talk in here? Trolls?
Anyone who sent an email reply would likely have been flagged as a "live one". Then they would likely receive a few more emails from "Catherine55" (real name: Mbabwe "Prince" Nkomo, or something like that), pledging her undying love and likely requesting a little financial help for a sick relative.

More like scamming than trolling.


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20 Jun 2019, 1:52 pm

Catherine55 was as likely to be an "it" than a "her". Such generic messages with verbatim web-addresses ("wrongplanet.net" rather than "WP" or "Wrong Planet") are more than likely automatically generated by spam-bot software, not by the spammer in person. I moderate on another forum where we get tons of spam-bot generated posts all the time; some of them have AI good enough that you need to see more than one example to be sure that the member isn't genuine.


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21 Jun 2019, 7:10 pm

Trogluddite wrote:
Catherine55 was as likely to be an "it" than a "her". Such generic messages with verbatim web-addresses ("wrongplanet.net" rather than "WP" or "Wrong Planet") are more than likely automatically generated by spam-bot software, not by the spammer in person. I moderate on another forum where we get tons of spam-bot generated posts all the time; some of them have AI good enough that you need to see more than one example to be sure that the member isn't genuine.

A scary thought. Even I could be an AI bot... Naa! Maybe not! :lol:


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