Scam posts... why?

[StephenFord]

I'm just curious, why do folk 'scam posts'? Is it just to show off their technical skills at doing so, or is there some financial gain at doing so?

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by alexp999
Removed picture that benefits scammers.

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Just now, StephenFord said:

Is it just to show off their technical skills at doing so, or is there some financial gain at doing so?

OR they are just total idiots with little intelligence !  

[alexp999]

People will Google phone numbers. Spamming huge amounts like this tries to alter the results to provide a scammers number instead of a genuine one when someone naive is looking and not checking where they get the number from. 
 

The site owners need to restrict new member thread posting or have threads with certain words require mod approval or something. It’s getting ridiculous. The clear up afterwards in between us checking can take ages if they’ve had chance to post a lot. 

[StephenFord]

1 minute ago, alexp999 said:

People will Google phone numbers. Spamming huge amounts like this tries to alter the results to provide a scammers number instead of a genuine one when someone naive is looking and not checking where they get the number from. 

Oh dear, you mean that holiday I just booked is a scam?? 😪

[Ford Owners' Club]

It's damned annoying more than anything, it seems endemic across many sites and social media also.
We put the site registration through many different anti-spam filters but they seem to find new ways of infiltrating them.

Luckily as soon as we see them hitting the site we can put member registration on moderator approval and catch quite a few that way and eventually they give up.
However,  the ones that have registered some time ago lay dormant until they post for the first time (so not new registrations and then bypass those filters)

Meanwhile, I'm off on a cheap holiday if anyone needs me 🙂 

[alexp999]

It will always be a cat and mouse game 😞