Is there a new type of hacking going on?

[guy sense]

Ok, I'm not up on the various terms. What I'm referring to are posts that seem to be random responses, that don't make sense.

The example: I posted this question:
What's the solution for double entries?

and got this response:
Got in and look forward to the operation. When can we expect the shipment to arrive? Thanks.

Notice the author's info:
xiongli817
Junior Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: China
Posts: 21

I checked the profile- S/he registered only on May 23 and already has 21 posts, as many as I've had in my entire time on this site (going back to 2004).

OK I'm probably out of my mind and it's just a kid excited about all the new gadgets who has lots of time on his/her hands (the son/daughter of one of chinas newly rich, that being a relative term of course). I say this becasue on further checking the other posts did make some sense.

 

[Japanese]

I'm guessing it was a case of a copy / paste operation, and while replying to one of your posts - something that had been copied to the clipboard for an entirely different subject was pasted into your reply.

I see that happen at work sometimes - people copy text to send to someone - get sidetracked - go to paste something for someone else, and it pasted the other block of text not intended for the second person.

Hope this makes sense.