# How to properly identify a spammer?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-properly-identify-a-spammer/228103 "2022-05-25T18:30:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-properly-identify-a-spammer/228103/7 "2022-05-26T13:49:20Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> For the second one, their email is present with many entries in `stopforumspam.com` with various usernames, but I don’t know if this website is legit. Do some of you use it?

Yes, I use it, and find it very useful.

I’ve seen recent spammers working together - one account posts a legitimate-looking query, and another one later responds with a promotional link.

It may be useful to bear in mind that it’s one business that’s creating accounts, and another business which will use them to post spam - either in posts, or in the profile. Don’t think of spammers as people, but (at best) as employees of a business. That is, the motivations are not personal, but business.

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