Targeting Spam: June 2006 Archives

Targeting Spam > June 30, 2006

SEO sabotage

[Blackhat SEO - Biting the hand that feeds the spam.] After a couple hard months, you’ve managed to get nine of the top ten positions for a keyword and there is still that guy at number 1. Obviously, you...

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Phil Askey has a point

[smugblog: Don MacAskill] While I’m still upset about the tone and method of dpreview’s message to us, I have to admit, after thinking about it a little bit and exchanging some private emails with Phil, he has a point. We’re a ”˜no ads, no spam”˜ company, and would hate for our brand to be associated with any sort of spammy tactics.

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June 30, 2006

SEO sabotage

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Phil Askey has a point

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June 29, 2006

Sugardaddy

[ RantSpace] I think that Sticker would be absolutely brilliant working with Sir Alan Sugar. I can imagine the arguments now, fantastic!!!

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Shadowserver Battles the Botnets

[Darknet - The Darkside Hacking, Cracking and Computer Security] student at Georgia Tech who has spent several years charting the global spread of botnets, estimates that in the 13-month period ending in January, more than 13 million PCs around the world were infected with malicious code that turned them into bots.

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June 28, 2006

Blog CAPTCHA

[Phil Windley's Technometria] The last week or so I’ve been getting slammed by “Nice site” blogcomment spam that just wants a link to some dubious Web site.

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dear people of the world who are running my life for me:

[+||+ blossam&decossam : 1978-1979 +||+] [kimochi| SHUT UP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. SHUT UP

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June 27, 2006

Spam Karma 2: Kills Spam Dead

[ Geof F. Morris’s Indiana Jones School of Management] I’d say that, with over 100,000+ spam stopped , Spam Karma 2 is pretty doggone awesome. I was...

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Spammer Caught”¦

[ SEO Black Hat: SEO Blog] While this is certainly not the norm, it does place us spammers on the defensive. People will go far beyond just reporting you to Google these days.

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June 26, 2006

You’d think he’d learn the first time?

[Spam Huntress] The owner of massinternetservices.com complained on a forum somewhere that he couldn’t get anywhere without pagerank in his competitive market. Fast...

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Short URL spam support

[Spam Huntress] I found this one in my logs: Short URL And yes, it was an affiliate URL, spamvertized. The owner says outright it’s to hide affiliate links.

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June 25, 2006

Over One Thousand and Counting

[ Transformatum] Akismet has caught 1,053 spam for you since you installed it

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Did nofollow go too far?

[Main Page -- A View from the Isle] Jeremy Zawodny has a good point here.Ã‚ Putting rel="nofollow" into all the links of our comments and trackbacks was supposed to be a smack upside the...

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June 24, 2006

Denying Spammer’s Rights? Oh, the Humanity!

[ SOME RANDOM DUDE] If he sees “no soliciting” he knows he has hundreds of thousands of other blogs at the click of the mouse. Instead of wasting his time with someone who has said “no soliciting” he is going to gamble on the person who has’nt said “no soliciting”.(Old As Time) What you are trying to do is own the world wide web, which you know is unethical;

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Spam Report Update 06/23/2006

[BSN Blog] Spam Report Updated - 06/23/2006 @ 22:04 PM Spammer Database Update now online: Guestbook Spammer database, Blog Spammer database

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June 23, 2006

How To Spam Me”¦

[Graphic Tribe Tattoos] I know I probably ought to write this in Chinese ””for maximum efficiency, if you know what I mean”” but I don’t speak the language and anyway, the spam I usually get is in English, so I can take the freedom to assume that the target-so-called-audience can also read the language they so creatively use to fill my moderation queues and mail boxes

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Spam and comments on blogs

[Laura’s Winning Ideas] A great feature of blogs is being able to join the conversation by posting comments to any article on the blog. Unfortunately, the spammers flood most blogs with nonsense links to Viagra, porn and assorted other junk.

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June 22, 2006

Batidos Puleva

[ Thin[k] Tan[k]] Acordei a cantar isto: “Todos diferentes, juntos nesta vida SÃ³ queremos é muito, muito esta bebida! Batidos Puleva, cai-te bem, cai-te bem, cai-te...

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US-ASCII XSS part 2

[ha.ckers.org security lab] Jeremiah Grossman and I spent some time looking at the exploit that Kurt Huwig found using malformed ASCII chars to bypass filters. We were able to actually turn this into HTML that will run, without using open and close angle brackets.

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June 21, 2006

Askismet: a blogger’s life-saver

[Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack] It’s getting to the point that, as good as Wordpress is already, Akismet is one of the key reasons why anyone who blogs should use it. It’s almost never wrong …

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Spammin’ and Jammin’

[ Jason Golod Blogs] Apparently, some other jokers do too. I just got my little Spam Karma report for yesterday for golod.com and there were 110 comment spams caught since this same time yesterday.

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June 20, 2006

Possible Austrian spammer

[Spam Huntress] Peter from blog.forret.com tracked a spammer that appears to be located in Austria. Check it out! The spammer uses a lot of .be domains, and links to...

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Proud of Being a Spammer?

[Zoli's Blog :: Main Page] Naive me .I thought spammers would prefer to call themselves marketers, and would generally stay away from using the term "spam".

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June 19, 2006

Fake Comments

[ Isulong Seoph] Since the contest began, I’ve seen a barrage of comments posing to be real ones here, my other blog and blogs left and right in pursuit of the top results. Just a little reality check heads up ”” comments on blogs are given the rel=”nofollow” attribute, meaning they are given NO importance by Google.

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The ethical spammer has something to tell me

[Spam Huntress] At least before email marketing was illegalized in the u.s., I could expect to receive well written and professional sales letters that actually didn’t assult my eyes, but now, I am left to contend primarily with spammers who have no command of the english language and no concept of good ad copy. Yeah, thanks a lot for making it a market that only non u.s.

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June 18, 2006

Plugin Junkie

[ The Politburo Diktat] You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days.

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Caveat Lector >> Killing referrer spam

[Daves Chalkboard] Caveat Lector >> Killing referrer spam I’ve been watching Technorati on the subject of referrer spam the last few days. The blogger Ann Elisabeth has...

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June 17, 2006

Blog Spam, and a ”˜nofollow’ Post-Mortem

[Justin Mason: Happy Software Prole] However, one part of the ‘Google’s embarrassing mistake’ article is a redherring —

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Spam Report Update 06/02/2006

[BSN Blog] Spam Report Updated - 06/02/2006 @ 07:22 PM Spammer Database Update now online: Guestbook Spammer database Blog Spammer database Technorati : blog...

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June 16, 2006

Nuking the Trackback Spam

[Jayant Kumar Gandhi] Jayant Gandhi answers questions about a wide variety of technical topics, including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Web design, management, Unix, Linux, search engine optimization, online dating, Mac OS X, shell script programming and Microsoft Windows.

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Disabling trackbacks in b2evolution

[Kost dungeon] Trackbacks are good thing in perfect world. But we live in world of spam, so spammers have to use every service to spam. I thought about turning...

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June 15, 2006

Who is shoemoney ?

[Spam Whackers Blog] I subscribe to his blog for that exact reason, because he does know how to make money, and does it well. His PPC writeups and so forth are quite valuable to people if they wanted to get into the paid sector on SE’s.

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Spam Report Update 06/14/2006

[BSN Blog] Spam Report Updated - 06/14/2006 @ 22:04 PM Spammer Database Update now online: Guestbook Spammer database Blog Spammer database Technorati : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog Del.icio.us : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog Ice Rocket : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog Flickr : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog Buzznet : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog 43 Things : blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog tags: blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog Related: Something Funny The SpamHuntress Blog Tags: blog, blog-spam, comment-spam, spam, spam-database, spam-report, spammer, weblog...

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June 14, 2006

Akismet

[Twisted visions of an ink slinger] You can delete all of the spam from your database with a single click. This operation cannot be undone, so you may wish to check to ensure that no legitimate comments got through first.

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June 13, 2006

Blog verification

[Twisted visions of an ink slinger””””””> Lee Pletzers] Or if you have Wordpress 2.0+ you can use Akismet and it will take care of it. If you have 1.5 (like I do), you’re fucked

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Are you my friend?

[ Stately Barrett Manor - Julie's Web Journal] Oh, please. Stop with the spam invitations already. Today it was from a place called Who-Remembers-Me.com. Apparently they are a legitimate web site...

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June 12, 2006

Spammers ARE from hell

[Grumpy Old Woman] Stumbled across this blog today. He’s got proof...

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Falling ratings

[A marginal walker] Falling ratings Posted on: Sunday, June 11th, 2006 at 1:24 PM Filed under: Blog ”” Stephen My time away from blogging has caused a MASSIVE decline in readership. At the peak of its powers, a marginal walker was getting about under a 1000 hits a day, with a few comments and a good number of private emails. Now that is not happening anymore. Its like starting all over again. Im currently getting 5 hits per day and about 20 spam comments to add to the falling ratings. Now, is it the good summer weather that has contributed to the near non readership as well as my blogging sabbatical? Or are my blog postings just devoid of interest? Answers on a postcard. blog, blogging...

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June 11, 2006

a thousand papercuts, dipped in lemon juice

[limon :: by Laura Lemay] This is what I wish for trackback spammers. For the first fifteen months of this blog's existence I got no trackback spam at all. Then over the last...

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Spam und Trackbacks.

[Chitime Blog.] 5. Juni 2006 Meine letzte Maßnahme gegen Trackback-Spam war es neulich, die Trackbacks einfach abzuschalten. Fühlte sich blöd an, denn damit haben die Spam-Typen ja erreicht, was sie wollten. Nicht gut. Aber ich wußte mir keinen anderen Ausweg mehr. Gestern allerdings schrieb dann Herr Hith über ein Plugin namens “Trackback Validator“. Er meint, daß es gut funktioniert. Also werde ich das jetzt auch mal testen. Also, Plugin installieren. Trackback Funktion wieder freigeben. Mal sehen, wie es läuft! :-) tags:blogkram., plugin, spam, technisches., trackback, validator, wordpress Kategorie technisches., blogkram. |...

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June 10, 2006

Spamming the blogosphere: don’t, it bites

[The Creativity Factory: marketing copywriting] No, spamming is NOT viral marketing. When you spam bloggers you’re annoying people who can and will retaliate.

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Permalink

[Lunacy Unleashed] […] That aside, if you’d like to see spam gone from your blog, head over to the Bad Behavior development page and download your copy of the plugin. If you have prior versions of the Bad Behavior, you got to read the instructions carefully before you upload and activate it, otherwise you’d be in for a screwup.

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June 09, 2006

Keep Your Email Safe from Spambots

[TypePad Tips] Hey John - the email address has to be un-encoded at some point, so I think Firefox is just reading that - likewise, you can see the email address in the status bar at the bottom of the page. Encoding is the standard - whether or not it's full-proof is another matter, but I've not seen anything to that effect - I use forms on my non-TypePad sites too.

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The Mythical Power of Sports

[Jalapeno Peppers] The Mythical Power of Sports June 8th, 2006 It allows the masses to individually believe when “their” team wins they the observer, is a winner - they feel like a winner thru someone else’s effort! From the couch we drink our beer, root for our “home team” ”¦hoot and howl, drink and growl”¦ AN OPIATE OF THE MASSES! Romans knew well the mythical power of sports in the arena. Perhaps less bloody now - mostly the “gladiators” these days die from steroid use - the blood thirsty cries ARE the same energy. Posted in blog spammers |...

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June 08, 2006

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Tips and Advice #1

[Internet news and trends, tips on online marketing, design and development advice - Jason Roe] Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Tips and Advice #1 June 2nd, 2006 by Jason Roe Keep It Local The one major problem that I have seen with a lot of...

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Referral spam generator

[Daves Chalkboard] Reffy - reffy dot net (I won't even come close to giving them a link!) Reffy dot net is dedicated to exposing the exciting potentialities of referrer...

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June 07, 2006

Akismet Worst Offenders Extension

[boakes.org] Akismet is arguably more effective because the techniques it uses for recognition can adapt over time. If a side by side test of dynamic -vs- static system were conducted over 10 years, it’s possible (maybe even likely) that static could beat dynamic initially, but once enough bots can circumvent the static system, it’s game over.

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Garbage blogspam - why

[Spam Huntress] Most of us have received several waves of garbage blogspam. Either obviously fake domains, and obviously random characters in the message itself, or spam with google.com as the URL.

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June 06, 2006

Referral spam redirector

[Daves Chalkboard] No Refer Spam >> www.planetOzh.com I have been hit quite bad by referer spammers these last few days, with peaks at one hit every 2 seconds (bots...

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Referral Spam

[Wild Mind] Referral Spam Filed under: Referral Spam ”” Glo @ 7:42 pm I’ve found a piece of code to ward off referral spam, thanks to John Sinteur known as...

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June 05, 2006

WordPress Tool: Referrer Karma

[Daves Chalkboard] Blogging Pro - Blogging News, Tools and Hacks

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Referral Spam and Obsession

[Wild Mind] Referral Spam and Obsession Filed under: General Referral Spam ”” Glo @ 7:45 pm While I like to say that I have great determination, some might call it...

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June 04, 2006

akismet

[award tour] The plugin works by sending all your comments to Akismet and only comments that pass their check get sent back to your blog. You can mark comments that sneak through as spam and if you really want you can check flagged comments for false positives for up to 15 days.

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oncasinogame spammer

[Alden Bates' Weblog] This comment spammer has been hitting my weblog the last couple of days. An attack involves him hitting the same post a dozen times or so and posting a handful of spam comments.

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June 03, 2006

Crappy Duck Merger Sends Ripples

[Life is Crap] function showJasonLinksSub(a,b,c){var s ="";//Add Links Here/*s+=a+""+b+""+c;s+=a+""+b+""+c;s+=a+""+b+""+c;s+=a+""+b+""+c;s+=a+""+b+""+c;*/s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/03/jason-i.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 1"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/03/jason-2.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 2"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/03/jason-3.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 3"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/04/jason-4.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 4"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/04/jason-5.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 5"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/05/jason-6.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 6"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/05/jason-7.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 7"+c;s+=a+"http://thecrapspot.blogspot.com/2006/05/jason-8.html"+b+"Friday the 13th: Part 8"+c;

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Beta Bites: Issue 14

[alwaysBETA] Zach - Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? - A slightly dated, but still relevant article on the history of diamonds. It’s pretty interesting how a fairly common rock became an expensive gem symbolic of love and marriage through a clever advertising campaign and a world wide monopoly.

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June 02, 2006

Fake Microsoft security alert hides keylogger Trojan

[Jonloh - Tech News, Security, Microsoft, Apple, Software, Hardware, Tips, Mac, Cars, Linux, Gadget, Firefox, Game box Reviews] Spammers have been activating a campaign of bogus emails claiming to be security alerts from Microsoft. The email actually distribute malicious keylogger software to you computer.

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Kill Blog Spam Dead

[Joe Dodge] Kill Blog Spam Dead June 1st, 2006 Recently (about a month ago) I found out that Wordpress comes with this dandy plugin called Akismet and I must say that it kills blog spam dead. I’ve gone from 50 spam a day to none, just by enabling this plugin.

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