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February 4, 2005

Trackback spammers

Some complete jerk has - in the past 3 days - started a trackback-spamming effort (with multiple IPs) for his 'online casino' and 'texas holdem poker'. He's hit this site and Boris's. If you're quick, you'll be able to see an example of his trackback-spam here at Wibbler.com

If I find you who he is, I'm going to track him down, go to his house and spray-paint my domain name on his garage door.

I hate spamming twunts!

Posted by Manic on February 4, 2005 1:41 PM in the category Teh Interwebs

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Bugger. I'll keep it there for posterity. For the moment

Posted by: Wibbler at February 4, 2005 1:50 PM

Cheers, mate. I'd deleted all mine (and Boris's) before I realised I'd need an example.

This is a new technique is it not? I've not seen automated Trackback spam before now.

Posted by: Manic at February 4, 2005 2:18 PM

I've been hit with trackback spam for mailwatch and bigdaddymerk. fucking loads of the stuff. I was getting loads of normal spam from those texas holem nobbers but closing the old comments seemed to fix it. I'm getting sick of these twunts now.

Posted by: bigdaddymerk at February 4, 2005 2:24 PM

not entirely new then:
http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/07/trackback_spamming

ways to combat trackback spam:
http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000577trackback_spam.php

Posted by: Manic at February 4, 2005 2:30 PM

A few blogs and at least one of the bloghosters in Germany were hit big time by them earlier this week, some of them had several hundred spambacks in a very short period. It almost crashed a few servers because of the amount of spambacks they were sending.

I'm just amazed how dumb some of the spammers are:
http://www.ministryofpropaganda.co.uk/2005propaganda/20050109-spammer.shtml

I've got quite a few "texas holdem" in my spam folder if anyone needs them ;-)

Posted by: Armin at February 4, 2005 7:05 PM

Effing bastards. A client has been on the recieving end of this one. No end of headaches, over 450 simultaneous hits, servers damn died.

Posted by: balders at February 4, 2005 7:30 PM

I been having this problem recently - online poker, phenylamine and US morgages.

Bloody irritating.

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_spam

Posted by: Gareth at February 7, 2005 8:54 PM

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	« Interesting moments in the War on Terrerererer \| Main \| I'm getting sick of saying "on your marks...." » February 4, 2005 Trackback spammers Some complete jerk has - in the past 3 days - started a trackback-spamming effort (with multiple IPs) for his 'online casino' and 'texas holdem poker'. He's hit this site and Boris's. If you're quick, you'll be able to see an example of his trackback-spam here at Wibbler.com If I find you who he is, I'm going to track him down, go to his house and spray-paint my domain name on his garage door. I hate spamming twunts! Posted by Manic on February 4, 2005 1:41 PM in the category Teh Interwebs Pings (Trackback) For trackbacks, this is the URL: http://www.bloggerheads.com/cgi-bin/mt-tbbh_20x07.pl/206 Comments Bugger. I'll keep it there for posterity. For the moment Posted by: Wibbler at February 4, 2005 1:50 PM - Cheers, mate. I'd deleted all mine (and Boris's) before I realised I'd need an example. This is a new technique is it not? I've not seen automated Trackback spam before now. Posted by: Manic at February 4, 2005 2:18 PM - I've been hit with trackback spam for mailwatch and bigdaddymerk. fucking loads of the stuff. I was getting loads of normal spam from those texas holem nobbers but closing the old comments seemed to fix it. I'm getting sick of these twunts now. Posted by: bigdaddymerk at February 4, 2005 2:24 PM - not entirely new then: http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/07/trackback_spamming ways to combat trackback spam: http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000577trackback_spam.php Posted by: Manic at February 4, 2005 2:30 PM - A few blogs and at least one of the bloghosters in Germany were hit big time by them earlier this week, some of them had several hundred spambacks in a very short period. It almost crashed a few servers because of the amount of spambacks they were sending. I'm just amazed how dumb some of the spammers are: http://www.ministryofpropaganda.co.uk/2005propaganda/20050109-spammer.shtml I've got quite a few "texas holdem" in my spam folder if anyone needs them ;-) Posted by: Armin at February 4, 2005 7:05 PM - Effing bastards. A client has been on the recieving end of this one. No end of headaches, over 450 simultaneous hits, servers damn died. Posted by: balders at February 4, 2005 7:30 PM - I been having this problem recently - online poker, phenylamine and US morgages. Bloody irritating. http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_spam Posted by: Gareth at February 7, 2005 8:54 PM - Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you're new to Bloggerheads, you may need to be approved by the moderator before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) URL: Remember me? YesNo Comments:

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