Like any good scammer, spammers are always looking for ways around the system, knowing that their spam will be blocked if it contains the real URL they are trying to promote (in this case “russian-babes.ru”).
In this example, they are using a workaround to fight both real-time anti-spam protection and URL filtering by exploiting inactive forums – or hacked forums – with pages of fixed spam content. The actual legitimate topic of the forum doesn’t matter – we found the same spam content on a diverse range of forums including programming, music, and gaming.
Not only do they get to post their information with a link to their real spam site – in this case, Russian dating – but they get free hosting in the process.