![]() One Twitter user questioned why, if trying to convince Grindr users a bot was a real man, would they name him Herbert. He told PinkNews: “It’s not a natural conversation flow – so it seems supicious but equally it its convincing enough to be real.” One user said he rarely used Grindr but that he had been contacted by a bot each time he had logged on in recent months. ![]() Others tested the sophistication of the conversation the bots were capable of by saying their penis had fallen off, or that their mother had just died. Some readers wrote in to point out that the bots often have a very small number listed under height, usually just over two feet. The bots, after sometimes convincingly carrying out a conversation, try to lure the user into clicking on a spam link to a fake webcam site. Users pointed out that one way to spot a bot is that their height is often listed as under 3 foot In this instance the software would lure users to a malicious web address in an attempt to install a virus on the device being used. Several PinkNews readers in the UK have reported conversations with what they thought were real guys, only to realise that they were bots.Īn Internet bot, also known as a bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet.
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