The unpronounceable names are generated by spambots. That's the best they can do with random letter generators.  I have actually noticed a few smarter spammers (or spam programs) that use names like "John4728."

As for the ones with names like "Ima Spammer" I don't know. Might be that the human running the spam program has gotten bored with his "job" and is having a little "fun."

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I had one Git called (as best i remember)

Dianakilla

I screwed his Ass to vB banning.

Unfortuanately, it was a long time ago, before i registerd @SFS.
So never added the plonka to DB.... Ho-Hum

As for the prats with stupid (long) names, or them that spam in their
usernames.. EG: usemypharmacyAtxxxxx

Go into your "User profile options", and limit the Usertitle max characters
to a reasonable number. (Mine is set at 12)

ALSO ... Use the Option to censor certain words which can be used in Usertitle.

Here's a few.....
porn viag sell pharm sex [Censored because I cant articulate my thoughts] buy blog online page conv mega mail serv vid
xxx cheap hol busin dick cock shag md doc wild tit

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A lot of times I'll catch a spammer because they register using a name, or email address, that has "phone" or "mobile" in it.

I thought of putting those words in the vBulletin forbidden list, but then I wouldn't be able to collect data to submit to SFS.  I may add it to my autoban function, which dumps spammers direct into the spammers usergroup so they can't post but I can still get their info to submit here.

But words like fisting, and erebli are always good bans.

But I will be using those words to blast http_referers. Nothing like someone trying to drag where they've been into your possibly public serverlogs.

Zap

For me it's a great boon that forum spammers ae so stupid.  We don't have such a large volume of signups only four or five a day so I get to look at each one and I've gotten pretty good at seeing one at 20 paces.

We don't get lot of spambot behaviour but we have an increasing number of those people who write a post that kids fits but has a link to a web site they are advertising.  What I find interesting is that more and more of them are for regular sites and not porn or viagra or some scam site.  Recently I have had a links legit sites to a site selling sweets, or makeup and one for cigars.  I am thinking of contacting the web site owners and asking for a fee. : )

A good "too stupid to live" spammer today. Uses a .ru email address. Sig link to a .ru domain website. Most profile fields completed in Russian. Whois search shows they're from the Ukraine.

Somehow that "Location: United Kingdom" they put in their profile isn't fooling me...

this isn't a username, but I think we can file it under the "stupid" category anyway .

I noticed that this moron was caught by my anti-spam MOD, but it didn't get reported here,
and here's why :

Username: AFSifedinkinindm
IP: 194.8.75.145
E-mail: gennick[fdthsrtvv]@2009ok1.biz

yup, that's his e-mail address,
I think he's gonna have a really hard time registering on forums with an invalid e-mail address .

Last edited by ih8spam (2009-08-15 2:49 am)

For the sake of humor,
    My top 10 stupid usernames, off the cuff...

10. advertising@
9. buydrugs@
8. IvanThePhish@
7. h4xx0r@

1337 doesn't mean brains, hell, it wasn't even a very good year.

6. SuCasaEsStuffed@
5. sex4all@
4. MadoffWithUrMoney@

(boos and hisses) Hey, no one said YOU had to buy into it.

3. SellinguShort@
2. Malwarewolf@

And the number one stupid username? (drumroll)

1. SpamIAm@

Zap

Last edited by zaphod (2009-08-15 8:14 am)