Japanese spammer theory

[cdave]

The random-words / chat-log-paste / no-links-included spammer back, and it's on good old 125.14.157.123

Since this can defeat re-captchas, and seems to come in bursts of the odd message a few hours, then nothing, I really think this is a person.

I'd like to go through the f-list of everyone whose been affected and see if the people on their f-list have been making comments / posts that correlate to these times. But that sounds like a bit of a mammoth task, and I don't have time to undertake it at the moment.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

As I'm "friends only" on my postings, I don't get any of these random flypast spammers

[cdave]

But a fair few of the people I want to read this are not on LJ.

And to reitterate my theory, I don't think this is a flypast spammer. I think it's a human being with a weird sense of humour. I don't get any other commentspam, and this seems to only affect a small number of people.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I get it. I got bored with deleting it so I now screen anon comments - they tend to be the only anonymous ones. Not sure what the point is when the output can't be seen by anyone but me.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I was just supplying a data point for your "going through the f-list of everyone whose (sic) been affected" (not "whose"!) to tell you that I'm someone who is not affected, and to give you the information about why I may not be affected by this.

[cdave]

Ah, excellent! Cheers in that case.

[andrewducker]

I used to listen to a lot of Japanese Spammer Theory, but frankly their last few albums have gone really downhill.

[shermarama]

Hello, I don't know you (though we seem to have some mutual friends) but I was googling for 125.14.157.123 just now and came across this post. I get these pointless comments too (screened these days so no-one else sees them, but they're still irritating) and I'm trying to work out what to do about it...

[cdave]

The only thing I can suggest is that you please raise a General support request.

(Mine was 979110, which is hidden from general view now, but open again).

In the past they have applied a temporary fix (when Mango raised it, and when I did), but have reverted it.

Do mention that this "bot" can defeat captchas, so may have some human behind it.

[shermarama]

Right you are, I'll try that. I also tried mailing the abuse-reporting address of the ISP that seems to be attached to that IP, but they say they won't do anything unless they hear from the LJ admin rather than a user...

[cartographer.livejournal.com]

Me too. I re-opened support request 973998.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=973998