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Spammers are and will always exist. I have received over 900 comment spams, generally from casinos and pharmaceutical companies looking to sell their [(via)gra and other p(ills)] (I’m not spelling the words so that I don’t rank in Google for any related long tail keywords and get millions more spam comments) .
Akismet does a great job at weeding out spam blog comments, and to keep up with the evolving antispam techniques, the spammers have started joining Technorati and adding top blogs as favorites. This allows them to show up on high traffic blog pages without having to be approved by the blogger.
I noticed this new evolution of spam only a few minutes ago when I was looking at John Chow’s Technorati Page and saw that 90% of the blogs on his “recent” favorites were promoting the link spam we all know and hate. Here is a screenshot:
The Technorati favorites (aka Fans) are not required to be approved, so it is quite a smart tactic for promotion. Hopefully Technorati will start adding more security features to stop things like this, because I do not want my listings to be filled with spam. I believe that once more spammers realize this is a free opportunity for more traffic, they will all join in on the bandwagon. Fighting and promoting spam is a never ending arms race… and I don’t think it will ever stop.
Update: Every single blog on the top 100 has been hit…
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Why do these Vi**gra guys spam evey blog…even my blog is hitting with around 15-20 spams each day
they dont come to every single blogs and spame mate, they use automated scripts that do this job for them…so very little can be done about it..
I recently seen a story on the internet and in a national news paper of a guy who set out to get hos own back on spammers… It looked interesting but unfortunetly I lost the article in a move… Maybe you will be able to find out more on the internet…
I would like to see less of it but I imagine it will never go away… There has to be ideas out there though…
cheers
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I honestly do not understand spammers. Everyone ignores spam so why even bother? Just to annoy people? What kind of person spends their time just annoying others? Bloggers always talk about spam like it’s some phenomenon that we can’t stop, like viruses for computers, but these are people doing this. For what though? I don’t get it.
Hi Kat,
I feel that there has to be solutions to spam, we just have to think of ways to get people into bother for it…
It would be nice if they actually started to fine people for spamming (after warning perhaps), and reduce the amount of spam on the internet…
This would take some amount of effort but it could be done, I think…
They do fine people and some even get thrown in jail… but it just allows room for two new players to take that one persons spot.
For money… and lots of it I bet.
In a backwards kind of way, you almost have to admire the ingenuity of the spammers. If there’s the tiniest loophole, they’ll find a way to start stuffing their little blue pills in through it!
And yet, I still can’t help wondering, how on earth can all this spamming possibly pay off for their businesses? Are there truly enough people out there who fail to recognize & be thoroughly annoyed by spam, and think a spam company is someone to make a purchase from? Honestly, I just don’t get it.
They wouldn’t keep it doing unless it worked… so all the spam in the world is making someone extremely rich.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe newbies to the net click on spam but in this day and age, how many newbies are there? And how long is it before they learn about spam and learn not to pay it any attention? And anybody who actually wanted anything that spammers advertise, would just go out and buy them or order them from a reputable dealer who probably doesn’t engage in spam… wouldn’t they?
Luckily I’m still under spammers radar.
Well my blog has cought over 900 spams since launch which is good. I don’t know why Viag(ra) needs to spam. Old guys know all about it already.
Spammers are almost as clever as the people who write viruses and malware.
Hm, maybe they are the same people?
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Spam spiders are so clever that compile my estimate form filling it with spam link.
After Xmas my provider update his spam filter and the problem seems to be solved.
I belive that this will be a “Never ending story”
Will they ever stop? I can’t believe there’s still people out there that make it worth while the spammers continuing …. heavens almighty!
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