Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site.
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texte = It all leads to the same result Frank - someone somewhere gets $$$ for their efforts. On 15 Jan 2007, at 9:14 AM, Frank Nordberg wrote: > Stuart Tremain wrote: >> I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the >> spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made >> through their links. > > I'm not sure about that. The links I've tested so far have all been > - I guess you can call it "fake spam" - links leading to a 404 at a > non-existing subdomain name of some site that doesn't seem to have > interest in spamming at all. > > There are a couple of posible reasons for this: > > 1) It's all just some hacker gone wild - kind'a like the old ring- > somebodys-doorbell-and-run-away joke taken to the extreme. > > 2) Somebody's trying to discredit the apparent spam clients. > > 3) The "fake spam" links are just tests. Once it's established that > they actually get posted and appear at the search engines, the > payload is posted. > > 4) The "fake spam" is used as a cloak for the real thing. > > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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It all leads to the same result Frank - someone somewhere gets $$$ for their efforts. On 15 Jan 2007, at 9:14 AM, Frank Nordberg wrote: > Stuart Tremain wrote: >> I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the >> spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made >> through their links. > > I'm not sure about that. The links I've tested so far have all been > - I guess you can call it "fake spam" - links leading to a 404 at a > non-existing subdomain name of some site that doesn't seem to have > interest in spamming at all. > > There are a couple of posible reasons for this: > > 1) It's all just some hacker gone wild - kind'a like the old ring- > somebodys-doorbell-and-run-away joke taken to the extreme. > > 2) Somebody's trying to discredit the apparent spam clients. > > 3) The "fake spam" links are just tests. Once it's established that > they actually get posted and appear at the search engines, the > payload is posted. > > 4) The "fake spam" is used as a cloak for the real thing. > > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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