List of spambot blocking reasons edit
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