Long Motorcycle Trip

[LaraCutforth]

Hi everyone.

I am from North Carolina and I found out from my friend about this forum. I met that certain friend from a long trip and we had talked a lot about motorcycle. She is a part of this forum already and she encourages me to register and meet new friends who as well have the same interests as with me.

Regards everyone,

Lara

[jonescg]

Welcome to the nuthouse, Lara! It's a pretty international place, so if we haven't replied to your threads, we probably haven't woken up yet.

Enjoy!

Chris

[nicobie]

Welcome to the nuthouse, Lara! It's a pretty international place, so if we haven't replied to your threads, we probably haven't woken up yet.

Where are you planing to go?

[LaraCutforth]

Thanks guys for the warm welcome. I have my Ducati and we are planning to ask for more nice place to visit on. Probably you know one place?

[Miles]

You decided against the Yamaha then?
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthre ... post270245

[Lebowski]

Thanks guys for the warm welcome. I have my Ducati and we are planning to ask for more nice place to visit on. Probably you know one place?

Italy, Bologna (where Ducati's are made). Take the A1 down to Florence, it's
a complete madhouse ! It's basically a 80km racetrack with many tight corners
and a non-funtional speed limit (as it's a real challenge to get upto that speed
and not loose control of your vehicle)

[Miles]

Lara,

You already have a Ducati and are thinking of getting a Yamaha but are worried about the maintenance!!!???

Or,

You are worried about maintenance so you decided to buy a Ducati!!!???

Since yesterday..................

And the Honda?

[Miles]

You'll have to create a more consistent narrative if you want to earn a living as a forum spammer............ and don't put writer as your occupation if your English is so poor....

[amberwolf]

I was also suspicious because of the writing style vs the location given, but figured I'd wait and see what happens.

Also, Miles, in the profile over on the forum post you link, it says "Drives: Honda". So I guess this poster has a whole herd of different motorcycles.

Dunno if it makes any difference, but this poster has "Location: North Carolina, USA" in their profile, but the IP is from Phoenix, AZ, from this company:
http://nobistech.net/
who claims on their home page:

Nobis Technology Group, LLC is the parent holding company to roughly a dozen specialized companies and a broad spectrum of websites. We are privately-held, employee-owned, and have been involved in a number of very lucrative Internet services companies of many names since 2002.

Note that they don't say which companies they've been involved in, or what they did to the internet with them.

One of the first links that comes up when searching on that company name finds this thread:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/no ... ers.17254/
which contains this quote:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/no ... ost-226060

Every single day someone on their servers tries to join the forum, a different IP address everything, every single time they are a spammer.

I have had up to five attempts to join in one day with different user names and IP's

You guys are lucky they have not found you yet. About 25% of them show up on stop forum spam. I will google the username and see the new username busted on another forum for spamming.

Here is a comment about them on a spam site.

http://cogdogblog.com/2010/03/28/spam-s ... y-hosting/

http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/vi ... ?f=7&t=707

http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/view ... hp?id=1665

http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/view ... hp?id=2428

What can be done about a spam farm what tons of IP addresses, email addresses, and usernames?

It is also very odd that this poster claims to have been referred by someone from this forum, but only calls her "that certain friend":

Hi everyone.

I am from North Carolina and I found out from my friend about this forum. I met that certain friend from a long trip and we had talked a lot about motorcycle. She is a part of this forum already and she encourages me to register and meet new friends who as well have the same interests as with me.

Regards everyone,

Lara

A search on the username also finds this profile:
http://laracutforth.pinkbike.com/
and they have already placed a spam link in it.

And this one:
http://www.chopcult.com/LaraCutforth/
also with spam link.

So, you can draw your own conclusions....


EDIT: adding this link to an article about this particular hosting company's spamming:
http://cogdogblog.com/2010/03/28/spam-s ... y-hosting/
The original author believes that they have actually taken action, but that was back in 2010. From waht I can see in our banned IP address list (almost all of which is from the last 3/4 of a year or less), all of their servers are still implicated in the spam problem we still have today.

[Miles]

Amber,

Good sleuthing!

I checked out NobisTech, too and was immediately suspicious....

[boppinbob]

I hate to be a cynic. I was suspicious after the first sentence.

[Miles]

I hate to be a cynic. I was suspicious after the first sentence.

I was suspicious of the username and title before I even opened the thread

[Sancho's Horse]

Lara,
I as well has friend with motorcycle. She tells me subscribe to your thread for good friends and for plan trips. You type with very nice North Carolina accent. Perhaps we should get together share bank account info and GPS coordinates?
Subscribed.

[jonescg]

I hate to be a cynic. I was suspicious after the first sentence.

I was suspicious of the username and title before I even opened the thread

I was suspicious the moment I saw a woman's name there