I appreciate the efforts you’re making, thanks!
We run the script to clean these accounts every month, so please don’t expect these to be deleted right after you’ve posted them. Our moderators do delete some spam account manually, but it’s a lot of work and time is limited. We’re doing the best we can 
Thanks for replying, Marijn, appreciated. Completely unironically, couldn’t make further comments myself due to the spam filter on the forum.
Yeah, I figured the moderators here have other things to do but spending time deleting these accounts every day, though it seemed to work for a time. I was kinda hoping, after the latest purge, that a roughly daily routine of deleting spam accounts could’ve been established. But I do understand it’s something that’s a lot to dedicate your time to, hats off to everyone who’s been involved.
What I’m thinking now is I’m going to look at spam accounts that manage to evade the script (I’ve seen some sneaky ones out there), and maybe some of the more “aggressive” ones, those who spam the comment sections under movies and lists etc.
My main concern has always been the links that might be hidden in spam account content. While one of the mods has mentioned he believes many if not most of the included links are placed in an attempt to improve search engine placement (SEO), my concern is some of these may actually deliver malware. Focusing on those accounts with links would still be useful though I’ve no idea how many of the accounts posted by @crawatt include links.
Please note though there are users who are quite prolific in posting “valid” links – links to the actual movie where the comment is made – that the user has found online (for example, nbats comment here. We do post elsewhere when such links are dead or geo-restricted so they can be removed or noted, and the mods are pretty aware who is making such comments, but focusing on accounts with virtually no checks or other film-related comments, that have links, would still be helpful.
My main concern has always been the links that might be hidden in spam account content. While one of the mods has mentioned he believes many if not most of the included links are placed in an attempt to improve search engine placement (SEO), my concern is some of these may actually deliver malware. Focusing on those accounts with links would still be useful though I’ve no idea how many of the accounts posted by @crawatt include links.
I general, all of the profiles I post here for deletion have links in them, with a couple of exceptions which I’ll get to below.
Please note though there are users who are quite prolific in posting “valid” links – links to the actual movie where the comment is made – that the user has found online (for example, nbats comment here. We do post elsewhere when such links are dead or geo-restricted so they can be removed or noted, and the mods are pretty aware who is making such comments, but focusing on accounts with virtually no checks or other film-related comments, that have links, would still be helpful.
Of course. I post links to movies myself now and then. Before reporting a profile here, I’ll take a careful look at the link in the profile or any links they’ve posted in comments to see if it’s a valid one or something else. It’s usually easy to tell which it is.
A few examples of the kinds of profiles myself and others post here:
A profile with a link in it, the most typical and easily the most numerous kind of spam profile. These kind of profiles are also deleted whenever the spam busting script is ran.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/matraexcoretech/
An example of a sneakier kind of profile. No links in the profile, nothing that makes it look suspicious on the surface - but then you look at their recent activity. I don’t think the script detects these profiles, though I’m not 100 % sure of that.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/leoflynn/
Another type of sneaky profile. This one has evaded deletion by the script, because it has a number of movies checked, but it’s very clearly a spam profile.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/irinagarbuz/
Then there are the accounts that have no links in the profile itself, but will post advertising links in comments of movies or lists. I couldn’t find any examples right now, as those have mostly been caught and deleted previously.
And lastly, there’s the gray area. There are profiles that have no links in them, no comments made, no checks, nothing at all, but the name of the profile itself is either a name of a company or straight up a website url - an ad in itself. These are not caught by the script, but they also do not violate any rules per se, so they’re not reported nor deleted. These profiles are quite numerous, hundreds of them out there.
As another user, I appreciate your efforts. 
Wondering if it might be helpful if someone would let you know after the spam script has been run for the month. Not sure that should be made public as who knows how personal these spammers are – do they monitor the website/forum? Probably not, but one never knows, especially since it appears a spammer/bot has learned that checking a couple things might keep the profile safe from removal for a time. (After all, legit users might come to the site once or twice, set up an account fully intending to check movies, they might check a couple obvious things they know they’ve seen (a hundred times), and then for whatever reason, they never make it back. But then from an administrator’s POV, as long as they aren’t violating the site’s ToS, they might return and dive in. Someday.
Other than the risk I already stated, I’m not sure what harm these throwaway profiles do to the site. It’s not like they come, check 18,000 official movies and suddenly appear on page 1 of the rankings. Although if that happened, I’m certain the userbase would make a lot of noise. Clearly they aren’t eating up enough disk space or burdening the running of various processes that rank active and inactive users. So, 
???
BTW, I’m assuming you’re looking for/at these profiles manually, right?
As another user, I appreciate your efforts.
Thanks, I appreciate you chiming in.
Wondering if it might be helpful if someone would let you know after the spam script has been run for the month
I mean, it would, and the last time the script was ran, Marijn did mention it here. But being as it is, I was never asked to do any of this, I’m doing this purely on my own volition, so from my own perspective, I don’t feel I’m in any position to ask of anything from the admins/moderators.
As for inactive, dormant accounts, I have my own thoughts about them. But clearly, the consensus seems to be that there is no harm from having them around, since, I’m sure, they’d had been dealt with a long time ago if they did complicate things in some way.
BTW, I’m assuming you’re looking for/at these profiles manually, right?
Yes. It’s a bit arduous for sure, but in some way, I enjoy this kind of “detective work” and get some kicks out of finding these spammers.
I spent about a half an hour yesterday browsing and looking for some older spammer profiles that may have avoided deletion earlier, and oh boy, did I find some, just from a rather quick look around. I’ll start posting them here for deletion in a bit.
You could know indirectly when the scripted cleanup has passed.
Pick an obvious marketing profile with links in its description and keep it aside as a “control” without reporting it.
You can check it from time to time and when the profile page disappear you’ll know the script just passed.
One good candidate from today would be for example: voyagerww's profile - iCheckMovies.com
You could know indirectly when the scripted cleanup has passed.
Pick an obvious marketing profile with links in its description and keep it aside as a “control” without reporting it.
That’s a pretty good idea, I’ll run with that. Cheers.
Spammer profile: MireyaKessler456
Removed
Another spam profile.
Removed, thanks.
Spammer
I believe marriageskyscraper’s comments to be spam on the following pages?
I don’t see them, so they must have been deleted.
Thanks anyway. Maybe Joachim took care of it before taking his LoA? Someone else? Hmmmm, maybe the spammer is watching this thread … 
Some old ones ; including some failed attemps but the accounts names are pretty telling.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/cprcertificationphiladelphia/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/melissahelen43/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/jacob12/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/ken9488/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/tironmings12/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/courseexperts/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/ahlammajid298/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/sendflowerstop/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/simaa434/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/roofrepairinsydney/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/irondowman/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/packagingxpert/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/tracyberge/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/1businessbox/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/cardiologistindore/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/herramientasbazarot/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/falko+dieter/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/traction+marketing/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/pinoychannel253/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/fandpplumbing1/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/simaa434/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/smmreseller/
I removed them all except one. I don’t get what’s spam about herramientasbazarot.
It’s the name of an online shop. I pegged it as a failed attempt at advertising.
Failed completely indeed. Removed.