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

[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