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SeaGtGruff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:35 pm

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=78244

Has been spamming nearly every day since joining.

SeaGtGruff · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:06 am

New user memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=78281 is an obvious spammer.

They made 10 posts within a matter of minutes, each one copied-and-pasted verbatim from other members' replies in those threads.

They also made an 11th post which is obviously spam for online casino games. That 11th post actually came first, but the subsequent flood of copied-and-pasted posts may have been so they could edit their first spam post to add a link to it.

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:01 pm

There are a bunch of spam links in this thread which have never been addressed. Actually, it looks like the whole thread might just be a bunch of spammers (with the obvious exception of Legoless, of course).

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:40 am

It was the same user. Dealt with

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:22 am

This one needs a gibberish -> English translator...

This one's fairly obvious given the username and the inappropriate link on the profile page.

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:30 am

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:08 am

Another one here.

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:29 am

And another one; spam post here.

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2022 6:02 am

This one's on drugs...

Lord Timster · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2022 10:26 pm

Link edited into old post here:

https://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&p=1296714#p1296714

edit: okay I just looked through some of the other new-ish threads in Skyrim General.
Most of them have links in as well... :/

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2022 12:03 pm

It's not just the Skyrim forum; they're everywhere. Looks like a bunch of alt accounts for a couple of different spammers, since the links are all the same. Bet if you checked they're all posting from the same IP address. And I'll bet the posts are all copy-pasted from somewhere else as well.

Group 1: here, here, here, here and here.

Group 2: here, here and here.

Group 3: Weird IP address [&@%!] going on here, here and here.

*Sigh* I feel like I'm standing in a once-great bastion of knowledge and cameraderie, unable to do anything but watch as it slowly crumbles into ruin and the rot and decay sets in...

Drazeel · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2022 9:17 am

This post isn't exactly spam on its own, but it feels spammy.

It reminds me of those fake web pages you get when you Google any Windows error message; the fake pages always have "fixed" or "[SOLVED]" in the title, and may even have part of the right answer, but when you read the whole page, they want you to download SuperDriverUpdater_TotallyNotAVirus dot exe and run it to fix the problem.

Thanks!

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2022 5:07 pm

Sorry, been busy irl

Edit: Everything should be cleared up now. And most likely these were all related since they had alot of interlocking IPs. If your wondering why some of their posts were edited rather than deleted, thats why, so that its easier to catch em if they try making a new account

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:03 am

Oh, look, another one.

MrFlibble · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:10 pm

A completely embarrassing attempt at SEO spamming (SEO link in not-so-small print at the bottom) from a spammer/bot that does not care about Elder Scrolls:
https://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?p=1296882#p1296882