@jaredbusch said in Where did they come from?:

@wrcombs said in Where did they come from?:

When if first joined ML there were no spammers (at least to my knowledge) where did they all come from?
Why do companies push their employees to spam and such on Thread websites?
Sounds like a great way to push people away from you product.

Because it costs them next to nothing to spam hundreds of websites.

And it only takes one sucker to click through and make that phone call to earn a profit.

Yeah, some quick math...

A full time spammer can be hired overseas for $300/mo. That's a MONTH. And that's high, $200 is definitely plausible. All they have to do is join websites, post pre-written spam copy. Simplest job ever. They can spam maybe 100 communities a day. That's 2,800 a month. Out of 2,800 posts, it would take maybe an average of five "customers" to cover the cost of that for really cheap software.

Easy math.

Cleaning up some spam posts and including this suggestion that was on the site but hidden in spam so that we won't miss the spam:

Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -Like “Windows 10*”} | ForEach-Object {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Process -Computer $_.Name}