{"id":124,"date":"2009-05-10T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T22:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-06-10T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T23:56:07","slug":"new-spam-tactics-text-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"New spam tactics: Text recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sworn enemy of my forums have always been Spammers.\u00a0 But gone are the golden days of the easily machine detectable plea to buy male enhancement products in broken English &#8211; today we have something much more diabolical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Art Of Text Recycling<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this post to our forums:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126\" title=\"spam_tricks1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks1-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks1.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, before you pour your heart into helping &#8220;Stella&#8221; achieve her dream, look at this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127\" title=\"spam_tricks2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks2-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks2-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/spam_tricks2.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup, it&#8217;s relevant text that was stolen from a Yahoo! Answers post.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a totally legitimate question.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the correct topic, posted into the correct area.\u00a0 Our spam detection system (Akismet) failed to flag it.<\/p>\n<p>What if Automated Next-Gen spammers start doing things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Text recycle a post<\/li>\n<li>Wait a week or so, giving time for innocent dupes to make replies to your original post<\/li>\n<li>Come back and add your spam URL to your forum signature, or possibly the post itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually I think I have seen the above happen a few times recently.\u00a0 Meh, annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sworn enemy of my forums have always been Spammers.\u00a0 But gone are the golden days of the easily machine detectable plea to buy male enhancement products in broken English &#8211; today we have something much more diabolical. The Art Of Text Recycling Take a look at this post to our forums: Now, before you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}