Hello I Am Ali Shekarfroush

Hi Guys,

I am new here. I have joined this community because I am studying Biology and sometimes I have questions to ask. My major is on Botany. I hope, I will have a great time with you guys.

OK. But I'm a prude. So let's ignore the angiosperms with their tendency to wave their naughty bits in the air.

What, decorum on this forum?

As you can tell, we are working on our natural language processing and semi- supervised learning algorithms for our computer generated moderator. Humor hasn’t been easy. It requires one complicated concept at a time, but we are working on it.

Enjoy your stay.

Could this be the same guy and he's actually dumb enough to use his real name?

College student charged in Internet 'phishing' case

How common a name is Ali Skeharfroush anyway?

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95175

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/introducti...ion-741696.html

http://drupal.org/node/1101848

http://forums.spry.com/lounge/6039-ali-shekarfroush.html

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2109503

Hmmmm?

Hmmmmm indeed. I am trying to get my head around what this guy is up to. He has posted on dozens and dozens of forums, all in a very simmilar format, but only makes a single post.

Introduces himself as he has here, and then never posts again. He never tries to spam, no links to websites, no phishing, just wants to make sure the name Ali Shekarfroush gets spread throughout the internet as much as possible.

From maths forums, to comic forums.

It does seem like he is in the IT business, so there has to be some method to his madness. Maybe he is trying to bump his names rating on google up by making multiple posts.

Curious!!

If you notice, in many of these posts, the phrase "I hope" is incorrectly followed by a comma.

These sorts of obvious English grammar mistakes (as well as incorrect plurals, incorrect phrasing, etc) are the hallmark giveaways of foreign phishing. It is very difficult to not make these little gaffes when you don't know all the myriads of exceptions to English 'axioms': ie "I before E except after C". Virtually every rule the language has, has exceptions, and the exceptions do not have to be logical or intuitive. And that's the downfall of foreign scam artists - no matter how hard they try, there is a good chance there will be a stupid mistake that one would never see on official emails from institutions. I once received a perfect-looking email that in every way mirrored one from a credit card provider, except for a couple glaring mistakes: the wrong placement of a comma, and the pluralization of a noun that doesn't change when pluralized - things you would not see from such an email. I called the bank, and sure enough, the email was a scam. Looked great - even had the workable links. Nowadays, there are programs that get into your email and read the emails in order to learn to not make the hallmark mistakes.

I suspect that this individual may be doing just that, on his own. If his IP traces back to the general area of that article, there you go.

Unfortunately, there are many Americans who know the finer points of English no better than the ones trying to scam, and it is getting easier and easier to dupe.

But what I don't get, is that on all the other posts on other forums he has made, he hasn't asked any questions, no links to websites, no "please PM me", nothing like that, so how would he be scamming people?

It seems more like he is just trying to post his name throughout the internet. Unless it is someone trying to damage his name by posting everywhere, but then those posts would have been more obvious in their scamming.

Still don't get what this guy is up to.

He may very well be innocent, and harmless. But in light of what can be accomplished on the net by dedicated cons, material presented on this thread at least suggest curiosity.

The perfect looking counterfeit that came to me was sniffed out solely because of grammatical errors. The recent worm advertised on the news had to do with being able to read title pages of emails from your address book. And not just that. It wasn't designed to retrieve sensitive data, but to read.

As you can tell, we are working on our natural language processing and semi- supervised learning algorithms for our computer generated moderator. Humor hasn’t been easy. It requires one complicated concept at a time, but we are working on it.

I get it - if you take a paragraph out of an existing post, your post looks enough like ham that any spam filter we may have lets your link-spam through. But it looks like your spambot has a sense of humour in picking that particular paragraph.