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  rockguitarist13 · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 12:40 am

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  i found another fake user: mynbasorce

  mynbasource.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rockguitarist13 · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 12:41 am

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  whoops… user name is mynbasource

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 5:48 am

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  Hi there, is this a continuation of your thread about Like spam?

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-like-bots?replies=4#post-3069360

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 18, 2018 at 6:41 am

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  Hi there,

  Based on what exactly do you think this is a fake user?

  I see nothing on that account that would indicate it wasn’t created by a real person, and nothing on their site appears spammy to me. The fact that their site is not hosted on WordPress.com does not make them a spammer either.

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  rockguitarist13 · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 12:47 pm

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  The has no gravatar, the site doesn’t load, and his profile image is the same as several other “spam like bots” that I’ve had previously. it might not be, I just wanted to make sure.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 18, 2018 at 1:29 pm

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  The site loads fine for me – it’s a site about basketball.

  Even if it didn’t load, it could be offline due to technical problems, the owner might have intentionally taken it offline and forgotten to remove it from their Gravatar profile, etc. And many people use stock images for their Gravatars, as it gives them some anonymity online. Neither of that indicates that the profile belongs to a spammer.

  Like spammers are definitely a thing, but they can most reliably be identified by certain behaviour patterns. We actively look for those type of behaviour patterns and automatically block accounts we find to be abusing the like feature. This particular account has never been blocked, so while it’s not impossible, it’s very unlikely that they’re a spammer.