WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Understanding Context Aware Trackback Spamming: New Frontiers in Web SpammingJune 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...
"This site has nasty hidden script"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.
New horizons in spamming aka SpamBlog ( Rick H needs to be cloned? )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.
Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.
Enter Ethical Spammers; Is Spamming going Mainstream?November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed:
< !– We leave content intact.
Waiting For 20, 000th Spam in 7 DaysJune 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.
To "nofollow" or not, that is the question...January 24th, 2005 A discussion on rel="nofollow" technique versus CAPTCHA
Yahoo Spamming this Blog?July 8th, 2005 I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com.
A fine way to scam for linksFebruary 10th, 2004 Let us begin by defining three new words: linkslut and blogcrapper = bloglinksluts. The people who drops their links in blogs, which allows comments, indiscriminately.
You Can Make 75$ / Hour by Participating in Google User Studies / SurveyNovember 3rd, 2006 Google is asking for participants for their user studies. They will pay handsomely - 75 $ / hour.
Spammer Wins: Blue Security Shuts DownMay 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.
Link Spamming: What works for meMarch 22nd, 2004 As you all know blogs are a good place to dump the links to your casino/gambling site or other scams. Unfortunately I actively resist any attempt to spam this blog.
5 FaceBook Source Code SecretsAugust 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.
US computers again leader in worldwide spamming, followed by S. KoreaApril 7th, 2005 US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is:
According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers.
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