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Email From a Scraper Site

Scraper webmaster acts as if it is my duty to let him steal my content and that he's doing me a favor and sending me traffic. But he isn't, just messing up my site's Google rankings.

July 13, 2006

Pious Comment Spam

Attempts to veil spammy comments with trite homilies.

Yahoo News Spammed

El Cronista Regional a defunct Argentina online newspaper used to stuff Yahoo news searches with links to porn sites.

June 21, 2006

Referral Log Spammers

You bought an ebook or program that you hoped would make you rich? Ha, you'll never see any return for spamming my site with false visits!

June 08, 2006

cs Comment Spam

Worthless, spam blog comments beginning with the letters cs.

April 23, 2006

Very Boring Comment Spam

Confessions of weariness and ennui prove to be a social engineering tactic for discovering which bloggers approve almost any kind of comment.

Great Site!

Seemingly innocuous comment spam containing nonsense phrases at the end of the message.

April 06, 2006

Boring Anonymous Comments

Is a comment spammer testing what a webmaster will accept in user comments as an exercise in social engineering?

March 21, 2006

Blocking rel = "itsok"

Link attribute used by at least one comment spammer.

December 28, 2005

Phishing for Online Retailers

Fake emails claiming to be from eBay and Amazon customers from web crooks hoping to learn your credit card numbers.

December 13, 2005

rel="itsok"

Fake hyperlink attribute used by practitioners of comment spam, perhaps to enable them to track their success in posting URLs to blogs.

<a href=" "> </a>

Comment spam takes more than a script: you need to know how to use it.

December 03, 2005