RE: Where are spammers culling site urls
Yes, for the most part its spam tools which crawl various site comments (for blog spamming, typically other blogs) and grab them that way. So one way to cut down on (but not eliminate the threat of) spam attacks is to not list your site. Which sort of defeats the purpose one does it in the first place.
Damned if you do…
I had the same spammer hit me today! I sent an email to abuse@dnslists.net. Haven’t heard anything back.
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A word to the wise, quite a few spammers these days spoof their IP addresses.
Thanks to all for your responses/feedback. One concern I have about reporting them to the ISP is, what if it’s the ISP itself doing the spamming? Not sure if I’m thinking right on that or not… but, it’s like clicking the “remove me” from a spammer email list. Once you do, they know it’s a valid email address. Could that happen by reporting to an ISP?
wow..they are posting as I’m writing on this board. Everytime they do, it goes to moderation anyway and I just delete it. It’s just annoying.
Can a search engine see the post if it’s sitting in moderation que?
Thanks again for the responses! Extremely helpful. 🙂
There seems to be an epidemic…
I’ve been getting hundreds of spam attempts from 65.75.175.30.
WP-Blacklist is zapping them all quite nicely, so it’s merely an irritation, apart from the fact that some of the URLs are malformed, which caused Blacklist to make entries in the db that generated errors when posting legitimate comments (comment gets posted, but poster sees screen full of PHP errors). Cause turned out to be trailing backslashes at the end of the URLs. Quick edit in the db and all fixed…
One technique that spammers use, it has affected our company, is to put an innocent domain name for their ‘sent from’ and ‘reply to’ email addresses. This effectively sends all their undeliverable mail and their rejected mail from their spam list to the servers of an innocent domain who then becomes the target of spam hate mail, gets wrongfully accused as the sender and gets their servers clogged with thousands of undeliverable emails.
ISPs and domain registrants apparently are avoiding this problem. It is difficult to get them to cancel an account. But currently this is the only thing we can think of to do.
Zapping them is not a problem getting them to stop is.
