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		ipsin on Feb 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog” Searching for a common string ("and bloggers made good content as you did") shows about 400k results. What's the payload here? So what's the payoff here? Based on the text it looks like IE malware, but it could be site visits or back-links or something else.

r00fus on Feb 18, 2015 [–]

I imagine payoff is about building an astroturf to spawn adoption or increase SERPs - essentially gaming search engine algorithms.

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