Search Engine Optimization drives hyper-link spam.
The Spammer isn't trying to reach an audience to click on their sites from this site. It's all about the Search engine spider bots seeing their hyper-links on our site.
Effectively, the more links to your site the better search engine placement you get for your sites. The logic is that if enough people link to you then your site must have more valuable content, especially if then link is from a high volume usage site like this one.
It appears this forums had been put into some kind of queue or listing that feeds Spammer software. The captha has to be a human entry, but everything else is computer generated.
The spammer bot completes registration, the spammer enters the captha (graphic data) and then when the registration email arrives the spammer has to click to complete the registration. This does require some additional effort on the part of the Spammer. The actual content placed on these boards is probably just a cut/paste thing.
I think a busy forums like this one, which includes all the 1C games is a prime target of spammers. The spammer just wants us to ignore his postings long enough for search spider bots to run the site.
Currently, we're eliminating the postings just about as fast as they go up. So, the spammers are wasting their time here. If we backed off and let them have their go at us... like they have over the past month they would love it.
We are looking at some other security options, and possibly doing some research on Spammer IPs. The Spammers are smarter and have a cooperative provider that is changing IPs constantly. The thing is the Internet provider has a specified number of IPs. Even though the Internet Provider assigns new IP addresses contantly there are only so many changes that can be made. All IPs point one internet provider, even if the someone is allocating them among many users.
The Internet Provider could lose big, if his registration is pulled for abusive use of his Ip addresses.
I can understand some poor butt in Indonesia, West Africa,etc. where there are no jobs and no money doing the spam thing. Afterall, spamming is more constructive than sitting around crying about how broke and hungry they are.
I personally have deleted 5 spammer postings during the time it took me to write this posting. An invasion...LOL
Everytime the spammer makes a posting I get an email. I delete them very quickly, depending on how busy I am at the time. Regardless, the chances of the Spammer links being picked up by "Search Engine Spider Bots" is NIL.
I still think of spammers as dumb butts like the guy in the middle in above video. Constantly getting whacked...