I See That Our Spammer is Back

I've reported it.

I remember reading an article about why a lot of spam is so obvious and stupid or contains poor grammar and spelling mistakes. The spammers specifically target the folks who are naive or clueless enough to fall for the nonsense - otherwise they have to work too hard to trap a few victims.

My employer makes us sit through training sessions every year. (They also periodically send out emails to try to trick us - whoever falls for the tricks receives extra training.) Some of the attempted security breaches can be quite sophisticated and can target particular companies. Scary stuff, some of it.

They did that too with us. I would get the phone calls asking if it was okay to open. I asked my boss just to double check. Figured out it was a test. I tell them to look at the clues and delete it. A few did open it...

My beef is those stupid "25 questions" quizzes on social media. I tell people stop answering them it is a hacker tool. I would get argued with. 3 days later that same person posts they got hacked ..

I think a poster here may be bringing in the spam by association. They do not know they been hacked. Which then bleeds over to anything they touch with their information.

In both recent cases, a new poster re-activated an old thread and their posts along with the spam showed up around 7:30 AM eastern time. The first time the person was clearly spamming us, today's newbie posted what seemed like a serious answer to the question. But who knows? I assume that the mods here could tell if those two posters had the same IP address andr whatnot.

That is why I suspect a poster brought the bots with them. Probably unaware. They can attach to an email address.

My posts to Aurelia's thread built on the political theme that IMO her first post began. I like that the thread was deleted.

I expect Aurelia hoped people would view the topic of her thread as neither political nor controversial.

Perhaps she got a lesson in reality.

Some gyms and fitness centers have eliminated all cable news channels, partly because of the controversy. This is what I advise for HOAs.

As I recall, "Aurelia" claimed she "heard" that "a director had deleted Fox News" from the or a clubhouse TV. That was a red flag to me immediately since she didn't say she confirmed the absence, nor, of course, who turned it off IF it was off. She refused to answer my question about her confirming the network was deleted. Imo, her post was political is the sense she wanted to arouse senses of unfairness among some readers here, yet without evidence. If she's real, she might let us know today.

Meanwhile, her post did, um, inspire a strong political opinion and another fantasized about board action to eliminate that network from a common area. I'm guessing that's the reason the post was deleted. I think, though, the mods should let us know the reason.

I gave the example of some years ago during a national election period, an unknown resident disabled a different cable news channel from our 4 TVs in our gym. Residents complained to our PM, who rectified the situation immediately.

I too have heard that some gyms/fitness centers across the country have eliminated all cable news from their facilities. With an historic trial in GA being televised soon, I wonder how HOA gyms will fare. Clubhouses too, I suppose.

Thanks for the info, Elle. But how is it the mods informed you, but no one else?

Other than robo-responses, the moderator has never responded to any violation of TOS that I reported. Why the moderator deleted the Aurelia thread was deleted is obvious to me. "The best laid plans of mice and men" sometimes implement perfectly.