LaEspoir Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I usually get on the forum after 2pm EST and I assume most people on the forum in other countries or they just don't visit as often. But when I do check the active users. I have noticed that they tend be "[Insert name]88[random letters]". They seem to be bot accounts linked to online gambling sites, all of these sites seem shady as hell and I was wondering why they were even on THIS forum specifically. I know the number 88 is linked to Nazi dog whistling. but in this instance I don't see that to be the reason the number 88 is involved. it's more like the BET88 thing going around. Any further research will be added on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 UPDATE!!! More suspect forum accounts have been found! accounts named: 51爆料 and 51wlb have suspicious links in their bios names translating to “I want to expose” with pictures of what seems to be Asian streamers on their account. I know this is the sleuth club. But inspecting the forum for odd occurrences and bot accounts are interesting because who actually tends to see those accounts and engages? There are definitely other suspicious accounts on this forum. Stay vigilant and safe! Most of these accounts from a single google search comes up with loads of Chinese sites, sadly I am American without the ability to read mandarin, but from the looks of it fishy behavior . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giuls Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 oh my goodness...............................yeah that seems so fishy................................ that's actually so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 On 1/15/2026 at 9:54 PM, giuls said: oh my goodness...............................yeah that seems so fishy................................ that's actually so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah it really is eyebrow raising, they arent even trying to hide anything. Clearly trying to exploit gacha game players and stuff on this forum. But luckily forum is relatively dead and Net safety in this era is higher so people know to avoid these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 For whatever it's worth, they've been on this forum since I remember joining back in 2019, they can't post though, that's why they put that whole "your first post has to be approved by a mod" thing into the forum, otherwise this forum would be 100% spam. The 88 thing is weird though, dunno why they'd pick that number I think it probably does have something to do with hate speech, at least that's what I found out when searching why bots commonly have 88 in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Welcome to the Club! and your information is really useful thank you. I did not know how prevalent they are on the forum prior to the 2020s. That means they've been targeting forums for a while now. Though after research in FINDING other forums (Which are all dead essentially) I found none. Though According to AI 88 is used as a lucky number as Really big Betting companies in EU use 88 In their names. Even having commercials on TV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I run a pretty large active forum and we have the same issue, we get a ton of bots or well, did, until we made it so you have to register to see the forums or post or anything like that. I know extremely little about this kinda thing, but apparently it's something called "web crawlers" and automated spam bots that use Google to search topics and find boards? And based on what I found, the more new content in a place, the more they'll find it and target it. Google says ~ Forums are usually open to the public, attracting search engine crawlers (e.g., Google, Bing) that index content, often appearing as "guests" in the online list. There is a general increase in bot activity across the internet, driven by AI-generated content and automated scripts, which makes their presence more noticeable on smaller forums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 You have cracked the case! That's amazing, You helped me a bunch on this I am excited for new mysteries. We've compiled a good amount of Info so People who are interested can truly understand why these exist. I don't Know if we should hunt down scammers like these or I should just leave the club as just a Encyclopedia of Mysteries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zariel Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I hate to uncrack the case but I don't think web crawlers create accounts Serey. Web crawlers are bots tho. Some are good and some are bad. Most of them show up as guests only. The majority of ones creating accounts are spammer bots that create mass accounts to advertise casino, dating, betting, etc, type of websites. Usually ones from cpmpanies based overseas in China or Russia. You'll notice a lot of the bots on here use "profile builder" techniques, filling out signatures or member profiles with links to avoid detection. If you look a lot of them list they like the same anime. For awhile I saw a lot say Dragon Ball Z and only that, and back a few months ago all the bot accounts had "Attack on TitAN" with the "AN" capitals so you knew it came from the same place or person. There are things on their profiles that link them as being the same and you can ID it as a bot with that info. Ofc tho they are aiming to post links which most of us know not to click on. They are usually sent to forums in order to boost a sites SEO rankings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Uncracking the case is A Okay! I dont mind being on this case a while. if you want we can keep investigating further, Welcome to the club. I noticed they were chinese too. If you look back on the 2nd or 3rd Response to this Thread you'll see how I found an adjacent anomaly to this case with the Chinese users named 51WLB. If thats anything that rings any bells for you or helps let me know and I will continue to research more. I think we need to establish what we want out of these cases. Once again I wanna say your information was super valuable and I am very grateful for your joining to the club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 leave IT TO ZARI TO RUIN EVERYTHING lmaooo I wonder if there's anything we can actually -do- about it any of it though hmm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zariel Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Is there other things we are going to investigate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 12 hours ago, Zariel said: Is there other things we are going to investigate? What about the fact that accounts here are being hacked to post those dating adverts lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zariel Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 2/3/2026 at 12:31 PM, Sakura said: What about the fact that accounts here are being hacked to post those dating adverts lol Is that happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, Zariel said: Is that happening? Yessss, accounts like Zack and Mohsen for example. If you check their history they haven't posted in years then suddenly their account pops up posting spam links when prior to that the things they posted were normal human interactions. I think they are dead accounts that somehow got hacked or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaEspoir Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 If you want to propose another case just start another topic in the cases section. Any and all cases are okay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts