Recent "gibberish" posts. What are they and how to (and why you should) report them

You've probably see many of these posts on the forums and wondered their purpose:

These types of post are designed to drive position and validation to a scam site or scam in a web search engines results and leaving them alone or not responding does not prevent the scammer from obtaining the desired goal:

By posting this repeated garbage on legitimate sites someone looking for support may stumble on this scammer phone number in a higher ranked web search result and be inclined to think the result is more legitimate

The end result is someone who unknowingly contacts a phony support scam and is conned out of their money, or worse; their security!

The good news by using the tools on these forms anyone can report these threads using the "down caret" symbol next to the "Follow" button so the moderators know totake the posts down permanently.

With the post open click on the "down caret" icon.

then select "Report Post"

Under the "What is the primary reason..." select "Spam", then click the "Report Post" button.

Hazzuah! You've lent a hand to help prevent the biggest threat computers users have to date.

Now lets get out there and take back the internet!

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