Spammer of the Day…

July 24th, 2006 You can easily and effectively use your .htaccess file to easily and effectively block comment and referrer spammers targeting your blog(s). If you are using WordPress you can also use my Referrer Bouncer plugin, which is much simpler, to block referrer spammers.

August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.

November 17th, 2005 This stupid and nasty spammer - my-pills.be spammed me 918 time in less than 24 hours and all the while repeatedly fetching only my home page! Guess what happens? They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be! After I aggresively started banning the new crop of referer spammers, my bandwidth usage has come down from last month, despite almost 50% increase of traffic! Think how much damage they are doing to everyone.

March 22nd, 2005 A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system.

May 17th, 2006 Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.

July 27th, 2005 My Referrer Bouncer plugin for WordPress Publishing Platform has been rather popular plugin with WordPress bloggers. It simply bounces referrer spammers back to their own domain, effectively forcing them to spam their own servers.

March 2nd, 2009 I got this interesting spam in my comments today: Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf What do I do? I figured someone who can stoop so low as to spam is not likely to donate his ill-gotten wealth.

August 30th, 2007 We have deployed Comment Guard Pro across all our blogs. It has been extensively tested for this internal release and we don't expect any problems.

February 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.

July 17th, 2007 A spammer finally resorted to heavy quoting of scriptures from Bible just to get in his comments and a heavy one at that. But there's more much more.

February 1st, 2005 Yesterday I found some (around 20) irrelevant medical ads in my spam-trap :) Today I got a comment: "This site has --expletive deleted-- nasty hidden script (which prevents me from spamming)" - wrote some exasperated kiddie-comment-spammer in his comments. You bet! It appears that the spammers have resorted to trackback spamming to get around captcha.

April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming? I think it is.

May 5th, 2005 Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy.

June 23rd, 2008 Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google. You have received spam from GMail user in your GMail account This one is simple to address.

February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.