So, I see a lot of well worded 1st posts these days by 1st time posters.

I have been told this is some sort of phishing scheme? I don't exactly get what they are phishing for?

Can anybody explain what is going on? It seems a shame to distrust every 1st time poster.

Is this really Ken?.......

Okay..
Is it getting harder to tell lately with 1st timers.?..

This latest one he introduces himself as a first timer -which favors legitamacy- but even this kind of post have been copied, faked... so it's hard to tell sometimes.

I hate the one's most that are commercial advertisement under the guise of a trip post . They are stupid to think WE are that stupid.

It may be an indirect Phishing at times ,if they include a LINK.... but often it's just some that gets a kick out of a false post. Don't try and understand... you'll go as wacky trying to.... as wacky the false poster might be.

Yeah - the commercial ones replying to each other at least seem to have a reason. The others are probably 12 year old hacker wannabes releasing spammy bots. Lots of street cred, dood. At least they're easy to spot, just do a subject search.

I wonder if they might be looking for back links's. If the administrator leaves posts up,with links and without "no follow" they might improve the SEO of the site.
Clicking on them does improve googles opinion of the site and may improve its rank.

With the kind of forum we have the link is a big deal, and the sales link is a small bother like phone sales people.

Thing is google is on to this and unrelated site links don't help like they used to.
What I don't get is why I would buy from someone who tricked me into looking at his product?
More likely I would rate them on Trustpilot and backfire the ploy. Beep Beep!