Spammers wanted
I found this amusing post on the Coppermine photo gallery site.
Spammers wanted
+ 11 November 2008The staff of the coppermine support board would like to say a big "thank you" to all the spammers out there. You manage to register and drop your crap (online pharmacy, porn links, affiliate programs) by the dozen each and every day. Yet your postings have an average time to live of less than 10 minutes before they get caught by moderators and deleted and your accounts get suspended. You really need a lot of luck to have the google spider visit within that short 10 minutes period. Your postings have an average hit counter of 1.1 - that's usually one hit by the moderator who deletes you and only a very small chance of a user to click your links. Why don't you stop wasting precious efforts? Go play somewhere else. Or get a decent job. Anyway, you probably won't, so let's continue to play. I wonder who will get tired first. There are thousands of you, but only a few of us, yet we win each day. Yeah, I know - you probably won't read this news record and continue dumping your lame spam. I wonder what you tell your wives when you get home in the evening, after having molested millions of people - do you continue lying? Or do you tell your sweetie "honey,I hard a hard time posting all that crap"? You probably don't have wives... Nor do you have friends, at least none who know what you're doing for a living. Have a nice life! I would hate myself if I were you...
A real "thank you" goes to all the volunteer moderators who keep this board free of spam.
Joachim Müller
- Coppermine project manager -
[btw I read in PC World mag that if you visit a phishing site to enter foul language as revenge, the site may launch a botnet attack on you! So play it safe and just mark those annoying emails spam and move on!]
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 22:15 — 16th November 2008.
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Hi! Thanks for this really nice poet on www.webmaster-forums.net!
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[url=http://www.example.com/really-cool-site]really cool site[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/awesome-site]awesome site[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/random-site]random site[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/spam-site]spam site[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/cool]cool[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/running]running[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/out]out[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/of]of[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/keyword]keyword[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/ideas]ideas[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/more-useless-keywords]more useless keywords[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/ok]ok[/url]
[url=http://www.example.com/im-done]i'm done[/url]
decibel.places posted this at 00:28 — 17th November 2008.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 00:41 — 17th November 2008.
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Title said you were looking for spammers, just trying to fulfill your request.
Seriously though...how can somebody run a botnet attack on a residential internet connection. Most of them have firewalls that drop all incoming connections.
JeevesBond posted this at 03:34 — 17th November 2008.
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Extra points for incorrect spelling of 'post' there pr0gr4mm3r
As pr0gr4mm3r is demonstrating: we have seen people who post on the forums that don't even check to see if their links are appearing. Probably done by bots.
Apart from giving his members a laugh I doubt that Coppermine bloke is going to get through to the spammers.
a Padded Cell our articles site!
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 04:55 — 17th November 2008.
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I would agree. Spammers continue to operate, even on very small conversion rates because of how much they send out. The only thing they have invested in the operation is the time they took to develop the bots.
decibel.places posted this at 15:14 — 17th November 2008.
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I can't find the www version of that article, but I read that following the link to the phioshing site and submitting the form with abusive input triggers a counter-attack
I also read that email addresses beginning with "a" get the most spam, and it is distributed by letter frequency...
More about email spam, but some interesting reading:
Spammers Profit From One in Every 12.5 Milion People
Study: Viagra Spam Is Profitable, but Margins Are Tight
Botnets Scramble for New Host
The shutdown of a hosting firm that served cybercrooks is giving spam a brief break as botnets relocate. 14-Nov-2008
Don't Be Dragooned Into the Botnet Army
A favorite multipurpose weapon of online thieves is growing larger and more powerful, according to those who combat the threat. 28-Oct-2008
Michael James Swan posted this at 16:52 — 17th November 2008.
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I get spam on a daily basis, but heck... Who doesnt?
It is lame, stupid and just not wanted, we all hate it.
Maybe a site for spammers would keep a few under control... Oh no!, it would not work because their job is to annoy, harrass and con many people or organizations.
I got attacked once, but server dropped the connections. I was safe.
~ Mike
citymaniac posted this at 17:08 — 25th November 2008.
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My inbox has about 100 spams per day.
How to get rid!
thank you
Mr City
decibel.places posted this at 20:50 — 25th November 2008.
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I use Yahoo Mail Beta as my "public" email, I've had the account for over 10 years, and I get about 10-20 spams in my inbox per day (but hundreds go to my spam folder), usually I get my real mail with no problem, even from domains no in my address book. I also set a few of the filters for choice words or phrases, such as "xxx" and some words not used in polite company...
Another tactic is disposable email addresses and I think Gmail lets you create addon email addresses but I haven't tried them.
Here are more methods to eliminate spam.
greg posted this at 01:56 — 26th November 2008.
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ahh, Yahoo...
Inbox (3)
Spam (2345656)
spammers wont stop as they don't think about how effective their methods are, nor do they care imo.
They just send thousands of emails a day in the vain hope that they will get a small return.
It's the same mentality as car salesmen (car salespeople/persons??)
They still rub their hands together when approaching you telling you why you have to buy each car you stand next to. You can go from a tiny 3 door 1.3litre hatchback to a 3.5litre V6 and they tell you for both cars "Yes sir, that really suits you"
Ooh sir, suits you sir, suits you...Ooh
Spammers are not a new thing, it's just a certain mentality and breed of person, and spammers are that person that have simply taken to the internet, rather than a salesman or them going into politics...
decibel.places posted this at 02:29 — 26th November 2008.
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Recently PC World ran a story about how spammers succeed once in 1.3 million (or some similar number) of messages.
Also, in case you were wondering, Viagra spam has a slim profit margin.
Makes you feel sorry for them
greg posted this at 03:29 — 26th November 2008.
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Suppose that depends on how firm their ad campaign is
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 04:21 — 26th November 2008.
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