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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Spam Watch</title>
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	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Entrepreneur on Java and Web 2.0</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MySpace Wins $234 Million Verdict Against Notorious Spammers (Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines)</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-wins-234-million-verdict-against-notorious-spammers-sanford-wallace-and-walter-rines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[MySpace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[California Anti Phishing Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CAN-SPAM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Promotions]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[MySpace Spam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MySpace was awarded $234 million in statutory damages, the largest ever anti-spam verdict made under CAN-SPAM and apparently under any law. This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act.
The case was won against two notorious spammers, Sanford &#8220;Spamford&#8221; Wallace and Walter Rines. 
Wallace and Rines spammed MySpace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dating Spam: With Love From Russia</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Country]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. Couple of photos were also included.
The full email without the headers:
Hello!
How are you? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Bloggers Get Comments With Strange Author Names</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would you approve a (blog) comment where the commenter&#8217;s name is &#8220;Best Way To Loose Weight&#8221;? Any sane blogger would never approve such comments even if it is relevant to context. Do you know why?
As comment author is linked with author URL, such comments are obviously intended to highlight the keywords he wants to increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Software) Released</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Comment Guard Plugin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WordPress Plugin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ContactThem Network Perfects Distributed Spamming</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template:
Hi,
We&#8217;ve seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here]
and we love it!
We see that your traffic rank is [######]
and your link popularity is [##].
Also, you have been online since [#/#/####]. 
With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Exploits Block List - XBL (Spamhaus.org) in Comment Spam Protection</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Comment Guard Plugin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DNSBL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Protocol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. I was recently testing this list againt spam email. Here are few observations from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is SplogSplot (Splog Detection Site) Dead?&#8230; I Hope Not</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[AdSense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SplogSpot is service that keeps track of spam blogs or Splogs. The splogspot spam database can be queried by using the SplogSpot API. A nice idea. Is the service appears to be dead since March 2007?
The recently updated splog dump from SplogSpot has the latest entry from 20th March 2007:
Casino Club Las Vegas - 07:45 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Google Product / API Pages Can be Spammed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[AdSense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Company]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Headline News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page. It appears that the forums are not actively monitored by Google staff as they are already being abused for spamming. Here is an example (click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Card of Nigerian Scammers</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[419 Scam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Country]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can safely delete any messages contains with:
&#8220;correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met&#8220;
This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).
]]></description>
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		<title>My First Facebook Spam</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angsuman Chakraborty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Company]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Spam Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first Facebook spam:

Subject: Mi Chai invited you to join the group &#8220;I&#8217;M A CHRISTIAN..AND I&#8217;M PROUD TO SAY IT!!&#8221;&#8230;
Mi invited you to join the Facebook group &#8220;I&#8217;M A CHRISTIAN..AND I&#8217;M PROUD TO SAY IT!!&#8221;.
Mi says, &#8220;Join this group! See www . patientking . blogspot . com and leave me a msg on whether u [...]]]></description>
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