Using RentACoder To Outsource Spam Software Development

November 21st, 2005 Rentacoder is where companies outsource their software projects. Long time back I dabbled with RentACoder, got 10 out 10 on all the projects and so I still retain a high ranking and often get invited to do projects.

August 20th, 2005 I observed people outsourcing dubious projects on RentACoder. But this is plain outrageous.

November 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.

October 20th, 2005 Blogger Rajneesh thinks its funny to outsource homework to India. In reality homework do get outsourced to India rather frequently.

June 4th, 2007 Overseas outsourcing has transformed U.S. economy. Now some families are adopting outsourcing for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they would cost at home.

August 30th, 2007 For 75$ a blogspot blogger hopes to increase his blog readership. Guess where he is looking for help.

August 30th, 2007 I came across an interesting project in RentACoder which is obviously taking advantage of RentACoder to do its dirty job - pushing its critic / competitor to page 2 of Google. The project specification is as belows: THE SOLUTION: We NEED this persons website to be "pushed down" to page 2 on google when our company name is googled.

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.

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.

December 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)

December 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.

December 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).

April 20th, 2006 The US and China are competing for leadership as the top spam relaying countries. This is a leadership which I am sure US wouldn't mind relinquising and it is improving.

February 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.

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.