Comments | 12daysofrain: Some entertainment...

12daysofrain

Some entertainment...

Feb 12, 2009 18:47

Recently, I was friended by a spambot, and they seem to be posting quite a story here. I'm going to keep on copying and pasting the story as it is written. True, it is very poorly done, but I think it will give readers a good laugh. I am not friendslocking this entry, on purpose, in order for people to read the story. You never know, this could be ( Read more... )

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skog February 13 2009, 04:26:34 UTC

Wait, what? Is this on LiveJournal, or what?

viking_quest February 13 2009, 04:47:44 UTC

yeah, it's nikoved but all of the entries are locked.

weatherdan March 25 2009, 05:44:02 UTC

Looks like lenidki is now doing the same. I googled part of one of its posts and found this.

expandranon March 28 2009, 08:37:46 UTC

Interesting. I've been friend by one "niguhr" who's posting fragments of that same story along with the occasional scam ad for weight loss or get-rich-quick schemes. From the content of the other entries here, it seems to be going around.

Whatever any of you do, do NOT friend these things back. At the best, they're there to post those scam ads to your friends page. At worst, they're Portal of Evil types and you'll soon find your friendslocked entries plastered all over the 'net.

deltachild February 13 2009, 16:35:49 UTC

Random. I just got added by a bot, jametk and was googling the only entry that 'they' have made and this is the only result.

Hate bots - but this one is taking a rather unique approach!

12daysofrain February 13 2009, 16:48:21 UTC

Yeah, it's very odd, because I've never been friended by a spambot before. There's more that this one posts, but it's just soliciting things for people to work at home and online.

I agree, this is very interesting.

deltachild February 17 2009, 23:50:47 UTC

It's certainly a new tactic for them to take anyway! :)

i_gouge February 22 2009, 23:09:53 UTC

Same here. How's this benefiting anyone, besides us readers of their awesome tales?

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livingdeadbeatx February 13 2009, 20:05:54 UTC

This was...awful? Confusing? Pointless?
Although the phrase 'manly treasure' gave me some major LOLZ.
I also liked the ending where a person can apparently take a shitload of pills and provide their own medical attention ;P

12daysofrain February 13 2009, 20:10:37 UTC

I completely agree; it's horribly written, but it made me LOL so hard.

Actually, the person keeps writing more to it. I've sent them messages and asked who they were and I got no reply. lol.

kerrileigh March 23 2009, 14:20:45 UTC

These are obviously spambots. I got added by someone by the name of kaliders back in Feb. I asked how they knew me and about 17 of my friends list as well (most of the journals they friended were inactive btw) and got no reply. I didn't add them back.

They tried again this morning. I posted a rather pointed reply after they replied to a couple queries from other people. Let's see if they bite.

viking_quest February 14 2009, 01:37:21 UTC

I finally read this and wow, this is really bad.

kitzheng February 24 2009, 20:50:19 UTC

Stumbled on your journal googling the text in rljunotr's journal... How bizarre that there's something doing this on multiple journals! Same pictures and everything and yep, ads for working at home, etc.

12daysofrain February 26 2009, 04:32:04 UTC

This is happening in multiple journals? That's extremely bizarre. Do you think it's the same person?

anonymousblack March 4 2009, 04:56:20 UTC

hi, i found you by googling a line of text on a hunch. tposrosi seems to be another bot posting the same content. how weird!!