Thread created solely to shill a scam web site?

The thread at <https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-574-217-0394#p356165980367751643> appears to consist entirely of promotional activity for some sort of scam web site.

I have posted a warning there, but it might be best of the whole thread was purged.  I see no legitimate posts there at all.

I've removed the links, however the posts do not seem to be fake. People just re-posted text messages they received.

I suppose it all gets a lot clearer when you can check the ip's.  Great solution though!  I'd hate for 800notes to be giving them an unintended boost in the Search Engines.

"800notes - the scammers SEO tool of choice" just sounds sooo wrong ;) .

800notes does not use direct links, so they are useless for SEO.

I've noticed that late at night, ads are posted in 800notes from random businesses across the US.

This is not the only site affected by waves of overnight spam for service businesses, and it's been a chronic problem for a couple of years at least. Often the same spam posts will appear on multiple sites within a few minutes. In the past the tendency was for a few individuals to paste them up by the dozen, usually grouped by region or business category.

I've speculated that small businesses are sold an advertising or SEO plan, not realizing all they'll get are inane directory style posts, sometimes overloaded with search terms, on sites where they don't belong.

Now this would be a thread fitting the current topic, where six of the seven comments over a ten month period are fairly obvious unpaid ads:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-612-331-1120

I also think that these posts might be a part of some SEO package.

The posters are from Eastern  Europe, and their use of a dynamic IP makes me think they are on a dial-up connection.

Please report the posts, if I come across these posts I always edit them to remove any SEO benefits they hope to get.

Julia,

I don't think any of us can fully appreciate the amount of work you put in to providing and maintaining this site.  You are our hero.

Thank you, lone stranger. I enjoy doing it.

BTW, you see you finally registered :) Welcome!

} "The posters are from Eastern Europe"

Interesting ... This explains the often laughable spelling and grammar, and the clumsy sentence structures wedged behind the chanting of search terms. I have in fact been flagging these goofy posts for months. Too bad for them I often keep strange hours.

I suppose redacting and not erasing them is a fair compromise. Give it a few months or years and some of the same threads will be spammed again in a similar fashion. Spam patterns remain exposed and there is less chance of punishing a rare false positive.