Oh with all I wrote I meant the forum post itself. I didn’t talk about external links. When people edit post content (different title, different content) all the links to that forum post still show the old title and content. That’s how they trick users.
That is true as well, those are web crawlers. Easy enough to turn the frontend (which you already download upon visit) into static html files. Only thing a copied website can’t have is backend functionality and data access (unless they have access to the database and backend framework as well). For the database that takes just a password string. If a guy copying a website doesn’t have database and backend access he’s likely to remove some of the elements that would otherwise erorr out (like a contact form). But like I said, duping the front end of a website is no effort, don’t need to hack for that.
facepalm.
that reminds me, i’ve seen one that created a profile with a name copying the structure of one of the people from rinho (i think i can’t really remember), one of epics partners that.
Many patterns can be used to trick users… I’m not opening those posts just in case. Tutorials like this could be great (like the WTF is series on youtube), but I distrust the forums that much rn. These are entirely new with no user interaction.
Thinking of it, even Facebook has similar problems. Once I noticed I had (I think) subscribed to artists (music etc.) and some time in the future I looked at my subscriptions and none of it seemed OK or legit. Apparently users create groups, grow the userbase, then fully swap the group content. Either to promote sales (like imagine selling that group 5000 users and making it a group that sells gold watches), or to spread malware, or worse. This forum has the same problems, but to the forum mods the things I post should be obvious / known already. It’s not like I’m spreading new exploits. Users don’t know though.
How would we know without feedback :') . If you have pets in your home and suddenly you hear 0 noise you just know they’re doing something they’re not supposed to XD. Probs they’re just doing something with a different tactic.
:l … pretty bad attempt. it’s clear the forum sanitizes the input. i’m glad that sort of things doesn’t work.
the good thing is that if they resorted to try different bs, is because their previous methods are not working anymore. so 1 point for epic anyway.
i’ve also found a post in a thread last night, but i had to go to bed when i saw it.
someone putting something random. and 3 days later changed the post to include a post to a phishy stuff, through a link shortener. that goes to github.
i noticed because i went back to the topic to see how the issue was progressing.
i can relate.
