do you want more control over which mails end up in your inbox then every time you give out your email address at a site use an alias specific for that url. it helps you to track where and by whom mail addresses are being used and lets you filter or block unnecessary mails. heres how how to generate a limitless number of email aliases there are two common ways to do this if you have your own d...
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spamhuntress a blog archive a suss out spam networks tags slogs a2b solution defunker tshirts that make you happy. tags tshirts design hakia search engine beta tags search tools semantic folksonomies tidying up tags tags folksonomy tagging research......
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so there i was innocently obsessively checking my blog stats when who suddenly appeared disney. i looked again. disney there it was in all its glory. disney was looking at my blog. ive made it to the big time. i am the man. i went to the disney site to find out where the link was coming from. searched for spectorbrain nothing. searched for blogs found a boy band site. ooookay but still nothin...
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yes we had connectivity issues yesterday and today. yesterday late afternnoon we were hit hard by a referral spammer. now these things come form different ips different countries but carry all the same referers. in actuality its one person sending out instructions to drone or zombie machines theyve taken over. anyway we were hit hard. i came home wanted to do something on my site saw i couldnt so ...
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it seems obvious that different email addresses get different types of spam. i recently noticed that even addresses with nearly identical exposure sometimes end up with wildly different collections. a number of our spamtrap addresses are seeded by hiding them on websites. put it somewhere that no human visitor will notice cause the harvesting bots will see it anyway. theres a whole set scatter...
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so this morning we got some porn trackback spam again. of the rape variety. the stuff you really dont want to have on your site even for a minute.the offending ip address 70.87.61.234. the company owning that ip address theplanet. i had a quick look through our .htaccess and decided that this was one time too many now that spam came from their ip address range. so now the entire ip range 70.84.0.0...
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forum bots what are they up to i got an email from someone whos plagued by bots that register on her forum. she wonders if the point is to harvest email addresses from the participants the behaviors weve seen from forum registering bots so far are spam posts delayed spam posts spam link in profile delayed spam link in profile to find out if there are mail harvesting bots via spam hunt...
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profile of a spammer ive been on the trail of leo kuvayev related spams a few times. one of the latest had a domain with this whois info evtuh oleg ukrboyshotmail.com no 77 liskivska str. 271 kiev kiev 01001 ua phone 380 63 4667701 fax i did some searches and didnt find much until i searched for the first part of the via spam huntress......
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spammers use spammees domain the latest trend ive spotted is a spammer that uses a nonsensical email address on the same domain as the spam recipients email address to send from. this particular spammer also uses zombies and doesnt get past my filters so i dont have any samples. maybe someone else has samples i saw a pair of emails that via spam huntress......
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spam reduced to one tenth by using wp blacklisting the other day i wrote about the ability to blacklist words in wordpress. ive reduced the comment spam to maybe a tenth of what it was before by using that feature. most prefer akismet to the blacklisting so most of you may want to check that out instead. and blacklisting words may result in missed comments if via spam huntress......
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all of the the swarms of trackback spam seemed to last an hour give or take a few minutes so it does look kind of like rentabot activity lots of different ip addresses trackback spam sites seem to have a common theme the last batch was insurance type sites. a sampling of about three or four found that they were all cloaked redirects for the same sitepage . httpwww.financeportalonline.cominsurance...
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fairy tale spammer i had a quiet moment at work and decided to check on one of my regular spammers. this one seems to like fairy tale beginnings. often kinda weird. always sounds intrigueing but formulaic. on my blog hes mostly posting comments on one post and he uses this user agent mozilla4.0 compatible msie 6.0 windows nt 5.1 what is via spam huntress......
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there are more and more free blogging services popping up everyday. i know i see them in my spam filters. web spammers set up free pages theyll put their nefarious products perhaps googles adsense or theyll redirect from the free page to their regular site.either way the free service is being used not good for the free service. though they may think that more linkage is more viral theyll find them...
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forwarded mails and viruses ive been warning about forwarded mails. hoaxes chainmails etc. ive said theyll eventually end up with spammers. and i forgot one thing its probably too much work to manually collect all those email addresses. enter viruses. we know they check address books. i dont positively know there are viruses scanning through the bodies of email on a victims via spam hu...
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banks block gambling sites weve been discussing what must be done to curtail webspam. the big industries are porn pills and poker. and theres something that can be done to make gambling spam less attractive. simply put block payment to gambling sites from banks and credit card companies. theres a new law underway in the us to ban credit card payment via spam huntress......
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rejecting email before its accepted by your mailserver i wasnt going to write more about mailspam for a while now but then i saw that someone on another blog was very curious about something i mentioned i reject the majority of spam before its accepted by my mailserver. its a collection of filters that reject mail based on certain behaviors. similar filters could probably be via spam hun...
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quickly get spambait address into spam lists so i got myself a spambait address. one ill use to feed my filters. but how do i get it into spam lists quickly ive placed it on a guestbook a first page of a formerly often harvested site and my blog. no spam yet i admit im impatient its only been a few hours. i should give via spam huntress......
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my new ahem training address so like dont email this one nodontemailcan.no ill feed anything caught here to my filters unread copyright 2006 spam huntress. this feed is for personal noncommercial use only. if you are not reading this material in your news aggregator the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. please contact so we can take via spam huntress......
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keep your bayesian trained i apologize in advance for this looking more cryptical than usual. itll make perfect sense to mailserver admins who use spamassassin if youve got a mail server with spamassassin which relies on bayesian filtering you need to keep it trained. many trim the bayesian database weekly to keep the size and speed down. even if you keep via spam huntress......
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how to combat spam with exspammer ryan pitylak one of the comments to this blog was from this guy how to combat spam with exspammer ryan pitylak i found his first entry the psychology of a spammer especially interesting. looks like a very new blog so well see how it develops. heres ryans resume at rokso rokso and another story about him. copyright 2006 spam huntress. this feed is ...
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an unwelcome guest of spam michael pollitt is venting his frustration about the guestbook spammer who keeps using his name by doing what he does best writing for newspapers guardian unlimited technology technology an unwelcome guest of spam copyright 2006 spam huntress. this feed is for personal noncommercial use only. if you are not reading this material in via spam huntress......
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nachsterliche allwchentliche sichtung des accesslogs fr dieses blgchen. erkenntnisse an allen ecken der welt wird offenbar ohne unterlass geschraubt und gebosselt um noch ein weiteres klickersuchmaschinchen noch ein paar drge suchspiderchen im web herumtollen zu lassen manch ein ganzseitensauger wartet darauf komplett blockiert zu werden ein paar schrumpelige refererspammer probieren es immer ...
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alexander morozov aus new york hat eine sehr groe menge domains registriert. und die bespammt er gewaltig geradezu anfallartig. dem herrn ist wohl der ganze billige sex mit dem er seine geschftchen macht zu kopf gestiegen aber das serienmige aksimetplugin erledigt bislang seine aufgabe ohne fehl und tadel nachtrag es ist natrlich lngst nicht klar dass der o.g. name tatschlich echt ist und kein a...
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if youre looking for the michael pollitt who left a spam message in your guestbook or in other response forms it wasnt me. hes back spamming guestbooks using my name and email address this link may not last and the other names mentioned here. ive picked up this activity from alerts and guestbook acknowledgement emails. as soon as i know what ip hes using for the spam runs ill do my best to get th...
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ive now contacted prstorms new owner and asked about the future of this controversial software product. bryan kelly who paid us3600 says that hes done a great deal of reading about prstorm. this included its use reviews and other issues as well as the views of the antispam community. in other words he knows exactly what hes bought what it can do for page rank and even the objections to its use. s...
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