Group of spam accounts

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

I've stumbled upon some spam accounts today (angle_scott) with this pattern: the accounts have been opened few months ago, they post comments 1-2 times per month. The comments usually contain some random nonsense (e.g. "ABAP is a programming language. To learn more about ABAP <link>") and post links to the same BlogSpot blog.

I reported all the comments that I could find but it's likely there are more users in this gang. Not sure it's feasible but I'd suggest to check for the links to the blog in other comments to identify potential other spam accounts.

Also it was requested before but never materialized: it would be helpful to have Alert Moderator button in the user profile to report spam accounts. It's rather cumbersome going through individual comments.

Thank you.

[audreystevenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Jelena,

The account you mention here was "caught" in July and deactived. Looks like there was some residual content cleanup that should have happened but for some reason didn't. I'll make sure that gets taken care of, although I won't delete the comment to which you replied or your reply will have been in vain. Thanks for always being on alert! Were there other accounts you identified? I checked just now for new alerts submitted on comments and did not see any waiting to be processed.

Regarding the request to alert profiles, there is an idea in Customer Influence that you can vote on, if you did not already do so.

[UweFetzer_se38 · Accepted solution]

Hi Audrey,

I would love to vote, but the idea is already closed with "not planned".

[audreystevenson · Accepted solution]

se38 Oops, my bad! Looks like this one was already decided then. I apologize for posting that link here without looking closely enough.

[Jelena_Perfiljeva · Accepted solution]

Hi Audrey! I reported all the individual comments I could find, was just wondering if there was some way for the moderators to find additional spam by using the described pattern. The comments I've alerted on seem to have been handled already.

Thank you!