Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam
On 28/03/2017 21:37, Andrew Hain wrote: Are the spammers the same or different people and have they been active elsewhere? If I had to guess, I'd say "same". Although I've not been directly involved in investigating them, I believe that the account information is different in each case, but they're "similar enough" to suggest a common factor. They've been pretty active in the US, and a check of http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=United%20States#3/44.82/-113.61 usually finds messages from people to spammers saying "I reverted this because..." Best Regards, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam
Are the spammers the same or different people and have they been active elsewhere? -- Andrew From: Andy Townsend Sent: 28 March 2017 21:09:30 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam On 28/03/2017 18:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > Anyone got any ideas what's going on with this object: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/153803935/history ? It seems to have > been spammed twice by two different US cleaning companies in the last > month. In this case I'm guessing it's a word match on "Cleaning" in the name. I've also seen examples where a street name has been changed to a spam POI based on the name. Best Regards, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam
On 28/03/2017 18:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Anyone got any ideas what's going on with this object: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/153803935/history ? It seems to have been spammed twice by two different US cleaning companies in the last month. In this case I'm guessing it's a word match on "Cleaning" in the name. I've also seen examples where a street name has been changed to a spam POI based on the name. Best Regards, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
