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It could have just been one spambot, they don't say from how many users the messages came.


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It's also possible they were spammed.

Turns out there’s more than one spammer.

It was a spammer.

I think it was a flock of spammers.

Based on the sample of 24 messages back and forth, it looks like the spammer also had a reply bot because a lot of messages exactly the same canned response.

People had claimed their own email address had been used to post a message. The messages themselves were repetitive and clearly had generated names. Someone ran the entire thing through and reduced the bulk messages down to a handful. I believe there were some attempts to add filler words, but for the most part someone just put together spam bots.

They could have been a spammer as well and had their account blocked for that reason.

"reason: user was spam"

So your saying that every message received came from a real user of the website?

Does this suggest that the first person got sent 7,618 e-mails?

The spammer was a coincidence. He posted all over.

My guess: someone was registering thousands of bots using common swearing words + some number as their password, and this particular spam campaign happened to be particularly large.

Who said they're spammers?

Reading some of these emails it's apparent it's not a person responding. This is simply two bots email each other.

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/aatajahd/

Looks like for some spammers, the game is already up.


I'm surprised the spammers actually sent something.

> the account was brand new when they were posted so they were probably killed by the spam detector

I can't, but I've seen it, and have a pet theory that it's encrypted communication. You can't identify the recipient. There may be some communication network running on blogs with weak spam protection.

Maybe the spammer used to be a client and the internal mailing list name got leaked through an email they got.

"I was sending ~1,000 emails a day on normal days and a monthly newsletter of around 30,000."

That's a spammer, by definition.

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