I’ve noticed a trend lately of spam accounts that have all started with xiaoqin, followed by a random assortment of letters. Running through all 1, 2, and 3 letter permutations led me to these valid accounts. There are too many 4 and 5 letter combinations to go searching, but I have seen them in the wild. I personally know that some of these suspended accounts were ones that I reported for spamming. Others haven’t posted anything or commented anywhere yet, but I presume they’ll be activated later.
Some observations:
* Most of the early ones had a listed location of Beijing, but further down the list they’re mostly listed as being in Flushing, NY.
* These accounts all list the same four auto-added communities.
* When they’re spamming comments they’re typically advertising www.fullmalls.com
* They’ve all been created in the last four months or so.
* I’ve also collected a gallery of the userpics used by these accounts – I think the spammers found some pictures from some innocent person on the internet and have appropriated her pictures to make their spambots seem more human.
xiaoqin1
xiaoqin2
xiaoqin3
xiaoqin5
xiaoqinaf
xiaoqindd
xiaoqingt
xiaoqinjh
xiaoqinqa
xiaoqinss
xiaoqinaaf
xiaoqinaag
xiaoqinade
xiaoqinajj
xiaoqinakp
xiaoqinakq
xiaoqinaoi
xiaoqinauq
xiaoqinauu
xiaoqinaww
xiaoqindds
xiaoqingee
xiaoqinggf
xiaoqinggh
xiaoqingpp
xiaoqingtt
xiaoqingww
xiaoqinhgf
xiaoqinhoo
xiaoqinhtt
xiaoqinioo
xiaoqinjhk
xiaoqinjjh
xiaoqinkii
xiaoqinkki
xiaoqinkkj
xiaoqinkop
xiaoqinkui
xiaoqinlio
xiaoqinloo
xiaoqinlop
xiaoqinooi
xiaoqinsaa
xiaoqinsas
xiaoqinsde
xiaoqinsds
xiaoqinsee
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