User:Graeme Bartlett/spambots

List of spambot blocking reasons
Here is a list of codes that I may use to identify kinds of spambot ips that I have blocked. IPs are probably belonging to compromised PCs or open proxies. Since they may be dynamic the time is limited to 3 or 6 months. Blocking for a second time will result in a longer bock as it is likely a permanent tool for spammers.


 * spambot - generic for spambots. Often these are in Cyrillic and it takes too much effort to workout which bot it is.  Often own talk needs to be stopped too.
 * spambot ave - predicting future using psychic means in French
 * spambot adv - advertising service
 * spambot bar - starts posting with three vertical bars
 * spambot behaviour - looking for people who are easily scammed
 * spambot bid - check my bid - needs talk page block too
 * spambot cart - advertising cartridges.
 * spambot cha - advertising Chanel in Japanese
 * spambot dia - uses characters that render as diamonds, likely to also be nonsense.
 * spambot dis - ofering discount vouchers
 * spambot dri - offering drive
 * spambot dru - advertising male enhancement drugs
 * spambot endvalue - contains the keyword endvalue - often Japanese
 * spambot exa - exam or essay often in Korean
 * spambot fun - money lenders
 * spambot goo - a prominent link to Google
 * spambot hello - says "hello and by" also often includes words "just a test" in edit summary
 * spambit ir - advertising a Russian web site with form i.ru (seems to have stopped)
 * spambot jac - jackets
 * spambot jap - solid block with many Japanese characters
 * spambot jer - jerseys
 * spambot knit - Russian advertising knitting machines
 * spambot lu - advertising LV (also could be a nonsense) or other luxury items
 * spambot jerseys - advertising jerseys
 * spambot jer - advertising jerseys
 * spambot mag - magnetic matresses
 * spambot mas - massage
 * spambot mat - Russian advertising mattresses - (most of these I would just label spambot)
 * spambot merry Christmas - posting Merry Christmas messages on talk pages.
 * spambot mk - luxury goods
 * spambot nonsense - puts a large chunk of English like text that reads as meaningless, but on the small scale looks OK. Recently Polish nonsense has appeared
 * spambot pri - Cyrillic transliteration of privat (actually common on many as this means hello)
 * spambot p/po/por - porn
 * spambot pow - powerbanks
 * spambot pyo - korean contains "pyo" letters
 * spambot ron - says "my name is Ronald"
 * spambot shoe or sho - advertising shoes, but also iPhones and some other clothing
 * spambot ski ski jackets
 * spambot template - a template of alternative words inserted
 * spambot tid - a company selling VPN software
 * spambot xru - Xrumer